ENGLISH TEACHING TIPS

ALI`S STORY If you are teaching third conditional sentences you may want to try this activity. 1-Tell your students Ali`s story. ALI WAS A POOR BOY AND HIS FATHER WAS A POOR FISHERMAN. ONE DAY ALI WAS ON HIS WAY BACK HOME AND HE RAN INTO A MAN WHO WAS LYING ON THE STREET VERY ILL. ALI FELT SORRY ABOUT THIS MAN AND TOOK HIM TO THE NEAREST HOSPITAL. AT THE HOSPITAL, THE MAN THANKED ALI AND ASKED HIM ABOUT HIMSELF AND HIS FAMILY, BUT ALI WAS ASHAMED TO ADMIT THAT HE WAS THE SON OF A POOR FISHERMAN SO HE SAID, "MY NAME IS MUSTAFA, AND MY FATHER IS A FAMOUS DOCTOR IN TOWN." A FEW DAYS LATER THE MAN DIED. HE WAS VERY RICH BUT  HAD NO FAMILY, SO HE DECIDED TO LEAVE ALL HIS MONEY TO MUSTAFA, THE SON OF A FAMOUS DOCTOR IN TOWN. 2- Have your students work in pairs or groups to criticize Ali by making third condtional sentences. For example: "If Ali had said the truth, he would have become rich".

BLACKOUT SIMULATION This is an activity to teach and practice the past progressive tense. 1-Turn the lights off and turn them back on right away. 2-Have your students work in pairs and ask each other WHAT WERE YOU DOING WHEN THE LIGHT WENT OUT? 3- Ask the students to report what their partners were doing when the light went out. 4- Ask students  WHAT WERE...AND,,,DOING WHEN THE LIGHT WENT OUT? WHAT WERE YOU(pointing at the group) DOING? WHAT WAS I DOING?

NAME ACROSTIC This is a great activity as a warm-up on a first day of class. 1-Ask students to get a piece of paper. 2-Ask students to write their first names on the paper in a vertical position. 3-Have the students write one word beginning with each letter of their first names. Those words have to say something true about themselves, for example, a quality, something they like or dislike, a favorite, or anything else as long as it is true information. 4-When everyone is finished have them share their acrostics in pairs or groups. 5-Ask students to report something they learned about their peers.