TEFL Case

Building Listening and Oral Skill Beginner - Elementary Pair work To draw and describe a person The Teacher The teacher provides papers. Class Activities Students work in pairs, and every student draws a person. They are not allowed to look at their friends' pictures. Having finished, Student A describes the drawing, and Student B draws the person described. They ask questions and give answers to complete the task. They reverse roles. Then, they compare the pictures.

Grammar Game (can be used to teach other lessons) Elementary - Advanced Group Work Students must correctly answer the given questions in order to make a goal. The teacher The teacher prepares the quiz of the grammar point(s) attached on the sticks, modified football field, and the player sticks (2 teams). The field is divided into some parts with blue lines. Class Activities Students work in 2 teams, say, the Red Team and the White Team, and they place their team logo in the center of the field. A member of the Red Team mentions a number of the players in red. S/he must answer the question attached in the player whose the number is mentioned. If s/he can correctly answer it, the team logo can be moved to the next blue line. If s/he can't do, the logo is still in the place. Then, a member of the White Team does the same with the players in white. The aim is that the team can move to the last blue line of the opponent area. If the memb...

Integrated Skills Elementary - Advanced Pair Work To complete the missing information The Teacher The teacher makes the cards: Picture Cards and Information Gap Cards. Free pictures can be downloaded from pixabay.com Class Activities Student 1 has got the picture card, and Student 2 brings the information gap card. To complete the information, Student 2 must ask questions. Using the details of the photographs, Student 1 answers the questions. Students reverse roles with different cards.

Building Writing Skill Intermediate - Advanced Class Work To continue friends' writing Class Activates It must be difficult to have a well-organized essay or a good writing based on the genre by practicing this activity. It's just for fun. Every student makes a mind map/brainstorming for the writing. Then, students write a topic sentence. Next, they pass their paper to a friend sitting next to them. They continue writing on their friend's paper by adding 1 sentence which must be suitable with the brainstorming/drafting provided by their friend. Before adding a sentence, they must read the previous sentence(s) well. They must use new learnt grammar and new vocabulary discussed before. The activity is continued until students finish their writings. For a fast and fun activity, it can be used to write a story or for a creative writing. Students freely add a sentence to build a story without making a mind map first.

Building oral skill (Asking questions) Any level Group Work To ask questions and give answers The Teacher The teacher makes the learning aids: questions and answers sticks. Class Activities The teacher splits students into 2 teams: Question Team and Answer Team. A member of the Question Team reads a question, and the member of the Answer Team having a suitable statement to answer reads the sentence written on her/his stick. This activity can be used to review WH questions. This can be used to teach conditional sentences. With this activity, choosing partners to work in pairs is fun, too.

Writing Activity Intermediate - Advanced To write based on the prompts The Teacher The teacher cut a text based on the genre or the lesson discussed in the class into some parts. Class Activities A text is cut into some parts. They can be words/phrases/sentences. Every student gets a part. Students must write a story, article, or another type of writing based on the lesson. They must begin their writing with the words which they get on the cut paper. For mixed-ability classes, students get the part containing vocabulary and/or grammar based on their ability.

Game for integrated skill Elementary - Advanced, Teens - Adults Pair/Group Work To complete the hunting The Teacher The teacher provides the tasks in each place  and the cards of clues/directions. Class Activities Students work in teams. The aim is that they finish their "journey" to get the treasure. Each team has got the same places to stop but with different routes. There is a note and task in each place. T The note is to show the direction of the next place and what the task is. The note colour is different for each team. Having completed the given task, they continue their "journey" until it was completed. In the last place are the given -TREASURES- gifts. The activities can vary.