Creative Teaching Ideas, Lesson Plans and Activities

Lesson: Personal Cleanliness - Hygiene Grade: Primary Skills: Speaking, reading, and creative expression.                         Personal hygiene is very important in our lives. It's also a symbol of one's dignity and confidence. Why cleanliness and hygiene are important in our lives to get a healthy life is the main objective of the lesson. Difference between cleanliness and hygiene: The term cleanliness should not be used in place of hygiene. Cleaning in many cases is removing dirt, waste, or unwanted things from the surface of objects using detergents and necessary equipment. Hygiene practice focuses on the prevention of diseases through the use of cleaning as one of several inputs. Activity: Picture Interaction            Ask the below questions by displaying the picture. What are the people doing in the picture? What might be the time then? What do you do after waking up fro...

          I am very happy since one of my posts was shortlisted for the British Council's Featured blog award. And some of the posts were also published on the Teaching English British Council Facebook page and also a great response from the world. Thanks! Other posts that were published by the British Council.

                       Improving writing skills to primary children is the biggest challenge for teachers. Especially the students who are learning English as a second language are getting much trouble to improve writing skills. Here I am discussing some practical tips and activities which I have been using in my classroom to my young learners.                         We know very well, writing is the utmost skill. It means it's a hard skill for primary children. And in the LSRW, listening leads to speaking and reading leads to writing. So a student wants to speak he should listen well as well as he wants to write he should read well. So we should concentrate on reading to get good writing skills. But most of the teachers are not following the psychological order of language skills. So you want to develop writing skills first concentr...

Topic: Adverbs. Grade: Primary and secondary. Skills: Grammar and writing.                               Young children are wonderful in absorbing a new language. They can get a maximum of language through games and activities that they find funny. Their success in learning a foreign language does not depend on their knowledge of grammar. As Pinter (2006) stated that children can use grammatical structures very well, they can speak language clearly, but they are not able to say why they use a particular structure. If teachers teach grammar, it is very important to do it in context.                                Here is a task-based activity that I have used to teach adverbs to my students in an inductive way. I have taught this topic after completion of the main lesson “Amar was late to school” by connecting the situations i...

                         Where English is the second or third language, we need effective teaching methods to teach stories and texts at primary level so that our students develop all four language skills. And such methods should help teachers to minimize the use of the mother tongue and establish an English-speaking environment in the classrooms. Such methods should also help the students to develop and practise all four language skills for daily life situations. We also know that students at primary level are at a cognitive level whereby they are not interested in or able to learn by listening to the teacher teach. So keeping all these things in mind and the level of my students, I have been using three types of teaching method to teach stories and texts to my early primary students. These are... 1. Picture/Story Cards Method:                           ...