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      Turkish coffee – real life in the classroom
      Submitted by seabiscuit on 13 February, 2011 - 20:20

      Hi all,

      I’m going to write about an activity that I used with my young  and adult learners last year. I’d just taught “talking about predictions in English” .Students’ level was A1 and I tried a couple of communicative activities. But, I couldn’t see the light at the end of the tunnel. Because, a few students’ spoken production wasn’t as good as I expected. And, spoken production skills have always been my priority. 

      I was thinking of an activity to facilitate their learning. I was working for a private language school and there were just 10 students in the classroom. I decided to do something really different and fun. In the break, I bought them Turkish coffee and I told them to bring their empty cups to the classroom. They said: “Why?” and I replied “You’re going to tell your friends’ fortune”

      First, they told my fortune and I really had great fun. All learners, especially females enjoyed a lot. At the end of the activity I began to see the light at the end of tunnel.

      Bringing real life in the classroom is very important in teaching English. Hope to learn your real life activities.

      Bülent

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      Aisha Ertugrul's picture
      Aisha Ertugrul
      Future
      Submitted on 14 February, 2011 - 08:35

      Nice activity for future and future continuous language production. How did you set it up?

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      CoffeeAddict
      Just up my alley!
      Submitted on 14 February, 2011 - 09:05

      Any blog entry that has to do with coffee is a favorite in my book :-) I'd ♥ to use this idea with my kids but unfortunately we have a very strict policy concerning what students may or may not bring into the classrooms. Food and drinks are forbidden... Also, we have a very strict policy about what is sold/fed to the children here. I think we're probably the only school in the world where chips and cola is as hated as gum! Allowing my students to drink coffee in the classroom would probably get me an "invitation" to the Principal's office....

       

      Happy Valentine's Day!

      ♥ CoffeeAddict

       

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      evab2001
      Good tip :)
      Submitted on 14 February, 2011 - 14:03

      Good tip :)

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      seabiscuit
      Future
      Submitted on 14 February, 2011 - 21:36

      Hi Aisha,

      In fact I didn't plan this activity. It was just a spontaneous idea and came to my mind in a wink. They'd already known the structure, that is, be going to for future predictions. As I've written, we drank our coffee in the brake and female students told our fortune. They seemed to have been keeping their powder dry to tell our fortune :=)

      Thanks,

      Bülent

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      seabiscuit
      Turkish Coffee
      Submitted on 14 February, 2011 - 21:41

      Hi CoffeeAddict,

      It's no doubt up your alley! :=) In fact, this activity is fine with young adults and adults. You know there're some rules which we have to obey. Kids are precious and it's sometimes necesseary to be protective but not repressive. Thanks for your comments.

      Bülent

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      Survival Guide
       Hi  When I was a student I
      Submitted on 15 February, 2011 - 10:32

       Hi

       When I was a student I used this activity and I took a good mark from it:)

       I can't use this activity now because unfortunately, it is forbidden to bring coffee to our class.

       Thank you for sharing this nice class activity.

       Cheers

       Ayşegül

       

       

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      ibrahim65
      Hi
      Submitted on 4 May, 2011 - 22:57

      Dear teacher,

      i am interested in sharing information with other teacher for the sake of improving my  educational performance especially as an E teacher.........would u care for being in touch 4 the reason previously mentioned......thanx 4 respondinding in avance ......so long

      regards

      ibrahim65