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Ice Breaker: Choose a Piece of Candy and Answer a Question This is an icebreaker that aims at creating a friendly atmosphere among learners and allows them to know information about one another. The instructor needs to pour the colored candy into a bowl, and then, students are asked to pick up some candy (the number depends on the candy quantity and on the students’ number). It is necessary to tell students not to eat the candy until the activity is completed. After that, the instructor explains that the number of candies they choose equals the number of facts they will share about themselves with rest of the group. They must tell facts corresponding to the categories assigned each color. For example, if a student chose all blue candies, they will share only facts about hobbies Steps: 1.       Make students pick up some Smarties from the bowl. 2.       Each color refers to a certain topic 3.  ...
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How to Deal with your Learners and the Classroom

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How to Deal with the Learners and the Classroom Have you ever wondered what makes your students noisy and uninterested? Do you think your students are too noisy and indifferent? Most of us think that the lesson and the information we provide to learners are the most important elements in the teaching process.  However, we go on investing so much energy on planning for the lesson and for checking the authenticity of our information without paying attention to the classroom's settings, learners motivation, attitudes, activities' time and the entire atmosphere.   We might have been through different experiences. But we also might have shared a bit of these difference. For instance, we might have noticed how students can sometimes be noisy and demotivated. In addition, we can feel that they are not interested in what we do. Such things may influence our performance in the classroom; we may either become determined to find a solution for this or start shouti...
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Let's Talk about Teaching English

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Have you ever wondered whether the way you teach is right? Have you ever been in a situation where you felt that you may fail as a teacher? Have you ever entered the classroom and said: "What the hell am I doing here!?" ?  Well, we may go through the same experience especially when we are novice teachers. You may start your teaching career with energy at the beginning, but you may soon feel helpless and tired. This goes back to many reasons like: - Working hours. - Students' demotivation. - Extra administrative reports. - Lack of resources and teaching ideas. - Restrictions imposed by schools systems.   And many other reasons that are most of the time linked to lack of experience with such situations. I created this blog in order to share tips based on my experience in teaching English that can, for sure, be applicable in teaching other languages. I started teaching English ( ESP) in 2016, in the Department of Humanities. Soo...
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