At the end of the calendar year, I do a retrospective on my favorite activities and resources I used for the first time or brought […] Read More
Category: speaking
A few years ago I blogged about students using Super Hero Comic Book Maker to conduct interviews in French on iPads. Wanting students to create […] Read More
While translation activities certainly have their place and can be useful in certain contexts, I still wherever possible try to design my lessons and activities […] Read More
Back in 2016 I blogged about a speaking activity where students made a short video in groups using Adobe Spark to give a weather forecast. […] Read More
I’ve been teaching novice learners for nearly 12 years. When I first began, I was more grammar and accuracy focused in terms of my expectations […] Read More
One tool I recently started using that has really had a huge impact on my instruction is Classkick. Classkick is a platform that allows the […] Read More
Flipgrid has been around for awhile now, but I didn’t jump on the bandwagon until this year when my colleague Sarah took the time to […] Read More
Over the summer, a few of my colleagues got me in on a practice that has been going on for some time now, but which […] Read More
This is just a quick post to share a new tool I recently used to give students speaking assessments. It’s called Superhero Comic Book Maker […] Read More
This is one of those activities that I honestly can’t remember at this point if I adapted it from someone else or if I made […] Read More
