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Cartoons – Speaking/Description – Spotlight Tool

This clip shows the beginning of an English lesson in an upper secondary school class on the topic Cartoon Description. To introduce the cartoon;the teacher choses a learner to come to the board. The learner uses the spotlight tool to describe what she can see. The other learners were sitting in a semicircle around the … Continued

Verbs – Vocabulary – Drag and Drop

This video was taken during an EFL class focusing on vocabulary. The video includes learning idioms with the verbs ‘‘see’’ and ‘‘look’’. The learners have studied some idioms and in this activity they practice what they have learnt by matching the idioms with the given pictures.

Seasons: matching months and seasons drag and drop

This class of primary school learners of English (9-10 years old) is starting a session on the topic of weather and seasons. In this whole-class introductory activity;the teacher reads out the months of the year and asks volonteers to give the correct season;indicated by trees with different foliage. She then drags the month label to … Continued

Verbs – Vocabulary – Pen Tool

This activity is taken from an EFL class and it is a follow-up activity to verify if learners can use the idioms they have learnt during previous sessions. In this activity;learners are asked to circle the correct answer. Learners are expected to use the IWB to write the words.

Weather: listening comprehension drag and drop

These primary school EFL learners (9-10 years old) have just finished listening to an audio recording of a weather bulletin with visual support in the form of a map of the British Isles and weather symbols on the IWB. The teacher re-reads the bulletin in short sections;and calls individual learners to the board to drag … Continued

Celebrities – Speaking – Pen Tool

As the initial part of the lesson;this activity is based on speaking about the given pictures. The learners in this class are university level Turkish learners. The learners are shown pictures of a few celebrities in Turkey and they are asked to guess their names and their jobs. The learners try to guess the names … Continued

Dates: Writing the date

In this routine introduction to their English session;this class of primary school EFL learners (9-10 years old) is working on the date: today;yesterday and tomorrow. One learner comes to the board to write the next day’s date using the pen tool and the labels for days;months;and years on the page;saying each word aloud with help … Continued

Weather: speaking practice with visual support

In group work with a class of primary school EFL learners (9-10 years old);the teacher is using the board for visual support for extended speaking practice. The learners come to the board individually to say aloud a weather bulletin presented in words and images. The teacher provides oral support where required;and uses these performances as … Continued