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admeurotrucksimula
Jun 20, 20163 min read
Dice Cards – An Activity to Encourage Participation
We’ve all seen the different kinds of students that come into our classes. Some students are confident, some students are talkative and...
admeurotrucksimula
Apr 17, 20164 min read
Random Choices 2.0 – Using Excel as a randomizer
Bringing an element of randomness into the classroom can really challenge students. There are many apps that act as random generators,...
admeurotrucksimula
Mar 29, 20163 min read
Nomination Cards: Giving students a chance to speak
Nomination cards can be used in discussion activities as a way to give all students a chance to speak. It can be a difficult balance...
admeurotrucksimula
Mar 7, 20164 min read
Classroom Easter Egg Hunt
I’ve created a few seasonal games, such as trick or treat and the Christmas quiz. Recently, someone wrote to me and asked if there would...
admeurotrucksimula
Jan 25, 20162 min read
Star Interviews
Star Interviews is a zero-prep activity that gets students up and moving about. I wanted a variation of class surveys and pair work...
admeurotrucksimula
Dec 6, 20156 min read
Christmas Stocking Fillers: A low-prep Christmas activity
Christmas Stocking Fillers is a low-prep Christmas themed activity that encourages students to describe their likes, dislikes, wants,...
admeurotrucksimula
Nov 30, 20153 min read
The Christmas Quiz
Last December, in the week before Christmas, I created the Christmas Quiz and it was quite a popular template. So, I thought I would...
admeurotrucksimula
Nov 8, 20155 min read
Decision Brackets: Giving reasons for your choices
Decision Brackets1 is an activity inspired from the world of sports and works like a decision tree but in reverse. It is intended to...
admeurotrucksimula
Nov 1, 20156 min read
Three Circles: A ‘getting to know you’ activity
Recently, Sandy Millin wrote a post about an activity called Hobby Circles. I really liked the idea of the activity, so I tried it out in...
admeurotrucksimula
Oct 11, 20153 min read
Trick or Treat? Part Two: The Board Game Version
Last week I introduced a game for Halloween called Trick or Treat. It was a PowerPoint game where students need both luck and knowledge...
admeurotrucksimula
Sep 14, 20154 min read
The Football Game
There are over a billion football supporters scheduling their lives around football matches. After all, football is the most played and...
admeurotrucksimula
Jul 6, 20155 min read
Don’t show lists, focus on words!
I am not against vocabulary lists or word banks as a way to review what you have studied, but I am curious why they are used so often to...
admeurotrucksimula
Jun 7, 20153 min read
Jigsaw Phrases: A Quick Review Activity
A review is an important part of the lesson, but students can feel intimidated if you ask them what they studied in the previous lesson....
admeurotrucksimula
Apr 26, 20153 min read
Tic-Tac-Toe – Setting Discussion Goals
This week I have been thinking about setting achievable goals for class discussions, so I turned to an old classroom favourite....
admeurotrucksimula
Mar 12, 20154 min read
Word Jumble: Practicing sentence structures
Word Jumble is a great activity to introduce example sentences and it allows students to think about sentence structure. It appears in...
admeurotrucksimula
Dec 18, 20142 min read
Christmas Quiz!
The last week before Christmas is always full of festivities. Continue the fun with a Christmas Quiz. I originally created this Christmas...
admeurotrucksimula
Dec 11, 20142 min read
Christmas Songs: Tired of cutting? Try sorting!
As we get closer and closer to Christmas, it’s nice to use Christmas songs and carols in classes. A common classroom activity is to...
admeurotrucksimula
Nov 21, 20143 min read
Random Choices!
One of my favourite teaching books is Drama and Improvisation by Ken Wilson. There is an activity from this book called ‘Actions and...
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