I’m answering the ELT Bites Challenge (and I really hope that that pun is fully intended) to describe a lesson plan that takes nothing more than you and your students. Full Disclosure: I always use the whiteboard to write down directions/keywords/vocab/grammar structures and also to draw pictures. I think it’s important to get those visual learners too. And I always let my students write stuff down before they speak if they want to. Unless it’s a fluency exercise. But this activity doesn’t actually require any writing or papers or pens …Continue

The first of April might seem a strange time to launch something new. However, that’s what I’m doing.
I’m going to try to write a discussion lesson plan for every day of the year. 365 discussion-oriented lesson plans on a different theme with some connection to the date. Everything from holidays like Valentine’s Day and Christmas to World Health Day and Science Day to historical anniversaries and events.
Of course there’s no reason you have to follow the lesson of the day if another topic captures your fancy.
Each lesson has a …Continue

Teaching Recipes is a cool site I came across thanks to the TEFL Net newsletter. It’s a collection of lesson plans and activities, but what it seems to have a lot of, that other sites don’t have, is small tips and tricks or explanations of common techniques like how to do a dictogloss or neat little guessing games.
For ELT Bloggers and writers, they take submissions, so it’s a good place to put up an idea and get some exposure as well as some feedback hopefully.