Happy Feast

Hi dear friends happy Ramadan feast.
Hi dear colleagues. Happy feast. I hope that you all are Ok.
Kamal (Egypt)

Dear colleagues,
Hope you are all fine and "Many Happy Returns of the Day'on the Occasion of "Eid Elftr' .Hope that God bless you all during those Holy days.Again I send my invitation to those who are interested to present in the mini-conference That will be held in my school after the "Eid Elfetr' vacation.The workshops will be 45 minutes each.You can consider it as a practice for the big conference next spring.Thank you for your co-operation and Happy Feast.
Hassan Abu Ali

Samia Kamel -- Egypt

Hi ! This is Samia Kamel Egypt. How are u ?
I missed u so much. I’d like to thank u again 4 every thing u have done 4 us .
I”ve sent u 2 photos as an attachment.
The first photo shows the meeting that I held wiz my colleagues& among us is sitting our school director who was a teacher of English too.
The aims of this meeting
To give my colleagues an idea about the programme that I attended in the US.
To show them the box of books.
Every one of my colleagues has borrowed a book from the box to select the most attractive & applicable activities / topics to be ready to take turns to demonstrate them during our staff meetings.
NOTE :- At first I didn’t expect their enthusiastic reaction. They were very pleased to see this treasure (the box of books) & willingly offered to participate in the meetings and to apply the technques inside their classrooms.
To give them the coppies of the Forum that I have received by mail.
To assign a notebook specially for P4L.

The second photo:-

This is my class , the photo couldn’t hold my all 68 studients.
Two of my colleagues visited me to observe my class.
In the picture all my ss are wearing large letter name tags that they ‘ve designed&decorated themselves.
The wonderful idea of having a box of concern (Mail box) for each class , also I didn’t expect the wonderful outcome of using this box that could create a friendly atmosphere between me as a teacher & my ss since it maximized the
Teacher/students interaction.
One of my studients is holding a theatre, the same as that one that Dr Stevens has shown us in the US ,but I have substituted the characters wiz the characters of our textbooks .I wish I could send this photos to Dr Stevens but I missed his e- mail so if u don’t mind send them 2 him
I’m looking forward to your feedback . and if you don’t mind send me Dr Stevens’ e-mail . love Samia kamel . my new e-mail is samiakamelegypt@yahoo.com

The "What are you doing?" game

I tried this game in my classes


Hi my friends
I tied the games that Dr steven tought usI tried the game of " What are you doing?"to revise the present continuous tense. It was very successful.











The students enjoyed it very much. I played the game with a student then I asked two of them to come out and play it in pairs.I aimed to revise the present continuous tense.I asked two students to come out and I told them that we are going to play a game. The game was to make the two students ask each other about what he is doing. and the other student tells him and acts the action.







Then the second student who is acting asks the first student about what he is doing. And he acts the action.The students enjoyed the game very much and they practiced the present continuous tense. So they formed complete sentences in the tense.

Dictation Lessons

Hi dear colleagues
I have tried one of our friends from Syria techniques. They showed it in thier conference. To dictate English in a funny and interactive way. It was very wonderfl to my students. I wrote the group of words which I want the students to remember in two pieces of paper and hanged them on each board side. Then I asked two volunteer groups of students to sit in groups. I told them that they have to choose one of each group who is good in writing. Then with time each group member comes to the board with his pencil and reads as much as he can memorise of the words and puts a mark with the pencil where he reached and runs back to the group's writer and dictates him the words. At the same time another member of the group runs to the bourd and does the same but begining where his friend has just put the mark. So it becomes a competition between the two groups. And the winner group is the one that writes the most words in due time. My students enjoyed this game and they learned with great fun.
I hope to read your comments dear friends.
Kamal Eldeen Albadry
Egypt

Dear colleagues,
Hope you are all fine and doing well.I have good news for those who are interested.I am going to hold a mini-conference in our school .I have discussed this issue with the school director and she willingly agreed.The conference is going to be held after Aid El-Fetr.That is after 2 weeks from now.So please ,those who are interested to conduct a workshop, send me an e-mail through the blog with title of your workshop to include you in the schedual.All colleagues from El-Minia and Assuit are welcomed.Also you can tell me any suggestion about the conference. Have a peaceful time with your families in Ramadan.
Hassan Abu Ali

Dear respectful colleagues,
I'd like to congratulate you all on the occasion of 6 October.Last week has been the week of my favorite technique which is using debate in the classroom especially if the topic is exciting and negotiable .Last week I held 3 debates with my students about three very important topics
1-For or against the work of woman
2-For or against the examinations
3-For or against Using Arabic inside the Classroom.
The result is not as important as the ideas and the language the students used to get their ideas across to the audeince.Some of my colleagues were there and they approved the idea .By the way , I have been using Debate for more than 7 years and every time it proves more success and my students and myself learn something new.If you want more information about how to conduct a debate in a class just e-mail me it is an easy task yet so fruitful.
Hassan Abu Ali