Creative Teacherette

I know I've just started this blog, but my summer break has also just begun. Here in Croatia, there are no classes from mid June till September, so I probably won't post (m)any things during summer.  I will be traveling a bit and I'm most excited to visit Glasgow, Scotland, where I'll spend two weeks in a summer school. So I'll probably keep you posted on that. Good luck with your studies and final classes with your students, have a great summer and I'll talk to you all in September! :)

Here is one more idea for interesting language teaching. Today, we're dealing with music, reading, listening, singing and competition. I made this Power Point Presentation for a class that deals with culture of English speaking countries. I chose 10 songs that were number 1 on January 1st on the Billboard Top 100 in the previous century (every ten years, starting from this year) and made a quiz on that topic. This activity is great for checking reading comprehension in a different way than usual. What you should do is the following:  Divide your students into groups and give each group a handout with a song and its short description . They should read it and make notes and try to remember as much as possible. Then they should make new groups in which there will be one student from each initial group, so that in each new group, every student knows something about one song. They should briefly present their songs to each other and then play the game. You shoul...