TEACHING & LEARNING ENGLISH WITH FUN

Mary's pink house is a highly interactive way to introduce vocabulary about the parts of the house, prepositions of place, types of housing, housing features, rental terms, grammar structures like there is/there are and many more activities. It can be used in many student levels because you can adjust it according to the learning goals of your lesson and the learning styles of your students. Mary's pink house  For example you can teach the parts of the house and some furniture at junior classes. You can even use some gestures and mime in order to act out what activity you do (eg washing your face and brushing your teeth) and in which part of the house you are (eg bathroom), in order to help children memorize more quickly through vivid examples. Moreover, you can teach prepositions of place by simple asking students to identify where some objects are or by engaging them in every day conversations pretending to be a member of their family who needs some help finding a mi...

Are you ready for an extraordinary picnic?? Then set the table with an unusual tablecloth full of  CVC and CVVC words missing the first letter and use plastic cutlery which will have all the consonants and vowels of the alphabet. Letter Cutlery Then mix and match all the spoons, knives and forks in order to present as many different words as possible while trying to decode and blend sounds. CVC word list Spoon for the phonics soup !! In this way phonics teaching will introduce children to CVC words. First children will start to learn the letter sounds, then they will start to blend sounds to real words and later on they will move up to a stage where they will be able to combine different consonants with the same CVC word pattern in order to create different words thus expanding their vocabulary. This activity will allow students understand the transformation of simple sounds into words. As a result, students will be highly motivated to keep up discovering the E...

Do you have trouble telling American English and British English apart? With this activity you can visualize the differences! American Vs British English You can add even more examples to help your students understand not only the language variations but also the difference in endings like -tre and -ter. The Battlefield Good Luck, Maria P.

We are in war... Take Cover... This war will never end..This eternal battle is the battle of THE OPPOSITES! The Battlefield This activity can take place both in classrooms and children's rooms for vocabulary practice using a common toy like toy soldiers. Not only will kids love this extra ordinary activity for empowering their vocabulary but they will also engage their parents to learn along with them at home too! So parents be prepared! The battle ... has already began!!! The battle of the Opposites War Zone The Opposing Forces Good Luck, Maria P.

Let's dramatize a classical literary fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen!! The ugly duckling You may use handmade craft stick-puppets in order to act out the tale and help your students enrich their vocabulary on adjectives. You may even use this activity to teach the comparative and superlative form relatively to each stage of the tale. Young and Ugly! Still Ugly!!  However, the main target of this activity will be to focus on subjects like acceptance , being different , determination , identity , assimilation , beauty standards , equality . Teachers should encourage students to express themselves and make an analogy between the duckling's feelings and their own possible ones. Students should make sentences using the verbs thinks and looks to talk about feelings and appearance. Thinks - Looks The process of transformation Good Luck, Maria P.

It's cooking time !! We're not going to cook an everyday meal but we will cast a magic spell !!! Abracadabra In this activity you can teach your students a variety of cooking verbs through an imaginative cooking lesson! The things you need are a magic wand, a witch hat, a cooking pot, some spider legs, some bat eyes (eerrr just kidding). And now the fun part...the R-E-C-I-P-E... Good Luck, Maria P.

Puppets in English Teaching.. Our Snow white hates apples!! Use Snow white and the dwarfs in order to teach new vocabulary and adjectives in a recreational way. Puppets can be used as an effective teaching aid which can facilitate the learning process. Moreover,  in this way you motivate your students to come up with stories and use the puppets to portray the different characters. So your students can pick up a dwarf or Snow white, come up with different voices for each character, mimic the actions, act out imaginary scenes and develop their social and motor skills while consolidating their vocabulary. Puppets in English Teaching Doc knows better! Good Luck, Maria P.

In this activity the student tries to learn how to spell the animals correctly. Lion King of the Jungle ! You can try it both ways: First see the animal card and then try to write it on your own or in preliminary stage the student can watch the word written and try to write it on his own as well. Good Luck! Maria P.