TEACHING & LEARNING ENGLISH WITH FUN

This two-stage activity aims at boosting your students' brainstorming writing strategies. Storytelling Dice First of all, you are going to need some wooden craft cubes and a wide variety of stickers that you find helpful for every essay topic you will choose. Wooden craft cubes Your stickers You can create cubes with different characters, names, feelings, physical appearance, presents, situations, favorite school subjects, hobbies, clothes, favorite food, etc. During the first stage, students should roll the dice, and try to represent the stickers and express them on pantomime through gestures and bodily actions. The rest of the students should figure out this dramatic presentation and take notes. Roll the dice !!! During the second stage, students are required to write a narrative story using the details given earlier. So, just roll the dice... Have fun !! 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.

Teach the imperative in a funny way ! ! ! Pretend being the captain and the crew in a pirate ship, learn to speak like a pirate of the Caribbean and enjoy the lesson. Act up a day as a real member of Black Pearl !!! Ahoy! The orders of the captain Good Luck, Maria P.