Author: yuningsih

  • Activities for Teaching the Simple Future (PART I)

    Dreams of Someday Whether your students are planners or prefer to fly by the seat of their pants, writing a 5 year plan can be beneficial in many ways. Explain the concept & give them time to think about where they will be in 5 years & how they will get there. Finally, have your…

  • Activities for Teaching the Simple Future (PART II)

    1. A Camping Trip Have your students even been camping? Have group 4-5 brainstorm what they will need to prepare for a camping trip. Then have students discuss what role they will play in preparation for the trip using the simple future. For instance: one person might say : “ I will collect the fire…

  • Activities for Teaching the Simple Past (PART I)

    Charade Series In an activity similar to charades. Students describe the steps in a process after their classmate acts it out. Have one student pantomime an activity (brushing his teeth, writing letter, etc).  Once the charade is over. Students describe each step in the process using the simple past. Dear Diary Writing about their day…

  • Activities for Teaching the Simple Past (PART II)

    1.Double Duty Review How much do your students remember from class yesterday? Find out by asking them to tell you what you did in class yesterday using the simple past. If the majority of your class travelled overseas to study English, have them share what they did before they came to the U.S 2. Good…

  • Activities for Teaching the Simple Present (PART I)

    Daily Routines Ask student to talk with one another about their daily routines. What do they do in the morning? Evening? Have them write out a schedule for the day to collect their ideas before talking about them with a classmate. Cultural Norms Give your students a chance to share some of their culture as…

  • Activities for Teaching the Simple Present (PART II)

    1.Where Am I? Students picture a place that they would like to visit, and write 5 sensory statements as if they were at that place. Then, students guess where their classmate is. Questions: Are you _____? Review the different uses of at/on/in when used to describe location 2. Present Simple BINGO Mingle Brainstorm a list…

  • ENGLISH IS A CRAZY LANGUAGE

    “Let’s face it – ENGLISH IS A CRAZY LANGUAGE”   There is no EGG in EGGPLANT nor HAM in HAMBURGER; neither APPLE nor PINE in PINEAPPLE. ENGLISH MUFFINS weren’t invented in ENGLAND or FRENCH fries in FRANCE. SWEETMEATS are CANDIES while SWEETBREADS, which aren’t SWEET, are MEAT. QUICKSAND can work SLOWLY, BOXING RINGS are SQUARE…

  • When you learn a foreign language

    When you’re learning a foreign language. Here are the tips you should do: Read aloud but focus on PRONUNCIATION & ACCURACY (this is what my English Instructor told when I got my course in high school) VOCAB with FLASHCARD? Hmm, I didn’t do this often Practice new GRAMMAR rules (Whether we like it or not!…

  • A Newbie Loving Photography

    Photographer? No I’m not! I guess that term does not suit on me 😀 I might suit to be called as  someone loving doing selca then brought me to love photography. But I’m not “a selca addict”anyway, coz I’ll do that selca things only when I have mood ^_^ Okay, back to photography. For doing…

  • Self-Esteem VS Self-Worth

    아싸라비아!! I’m back! ^_^ Hello, bloggers.  I just read some great articles about self-esteem and self-worth, then it triggered me to write about on this blog, so here I’m ^_^ As for myself, there are two important things you must have to gain a happy life, SELF-ESTEEM and SELF-WORTH. So, what are self-esteem and self-worth?…