Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Material and pictures of some of my classes

Board Game to practice some Idioms and Phrasal verbs in context (Intermediate level)

Students created their Lord of the Rings character and gave their reasons to destroy the ring (beginners)


Students created their own spells with their magic wands (Intermediate level)

Thursday, May 17, 2018

Survival quest: Zombie Attack

I post one of my favorite worksheets: Zombies are coming... Still working on the procedure sheet and a sample sheet, though. Those kinds of documents take a while, especially because this is a mixture of activities where you can find a modified version of a popular game in Ecuador called "Stop the hand". The pic of the zombie lady bellow is from a photo-shoot done in 2013. If you want to see more pics of the photo-shoot (Rotten Queens Ibarra 2013) here is the link.

http://laindesign.blogspot.com/2013/06/lain-design-so-far.html

The comic in the worksheet is a popular one adapted for didactic use, I had to censore the f... word lol.
Lesson Focus: Lexis and Writing 

If possible, I´ll update the post so the information of how to use this worksheet is even more handy. Thanx for reading.
Author: Fernanda Moreno / Lain


Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Teaching Writing, helping students to organize their ideas

Worksheet: I wanna be a writer
Source: Own Source
Author: Fernanda Moreno/ Lain

I´m a new teacher at Wall Street English in Quito, before being promoted I used to be Personal Tutor.
This blog is intended to share my teaching practice. As a final assigment, I am to do a lesson plan with a modified strategy using a skill of my preference... I chose writing (It is time to produce! lol).
I would like to share what I do for my clases with other teachers, if the sources I share with you are useful then feel free to use them as long as you tell me how it went!

This is a 1-hour lesson where we will check lexis and writing in a fun way.
In order to work on the answer key and check how long students should work on the exercises, I did the exercises myself and I doubled the time I took to finish them.

I am a fashion designer and an English teacher who has good bases in the use of photoshop and illustrator: useful tools for this worksheet I wanna be a writer.

Exercise 1: Source, my own,
Exercise 2: Modified from the following source:Words&Things Workshops, Seccion C.

Comments are well received :D

Thanx guys.