Ideas for Increasing Interest & Engagement

10 Engaging Ways to Teach Grammar in the Classroom

If you mention ‘grammar’ and your students groan, there’s something wrong. Yes, English can be difficult, full of rules to remember, but that doesn’t mean the teaching of it has to be boring.

With a little creativity, you can plan grammar lessons that are enjoyable, engaging, and, dare I say it, fun.

Check out these ten actionable ideas that will transform your lessons, making grammar the highlight of your teaching week.

- Helly Douglas -

How to Teach Grammar Online

Moving grammar into a digital format can certainly have its challenges. You are no doubt continuing to see students making errors (have you been cringing at some of the emails they're sending you?), so here are some strategies that you can use to make this transition easier.

- Presto Plans -

Ideas for Digital Storytelling Across the Curriculum

Digital storytelling provides a great way for engaging students in the curriculum while building creativity, communication, and critical thinking. These lessons are a great way to get started.

- Tech4Learning, Inc. -

5 Interactive World Language Activities for Remote and Socially-Distanced Classrooms

Whether you teach English, Malay, Mandarin, or any other world language, you probably rely on interactive world language activities, including games, songs, and manipulatives to keep your students engaged.

Here are 5 interactive world language activities to keep your language students engaged during remote learning or in a physically distanced classroom.

Creative Storytelling Classroom Activity

A story telling game gives students an opportunity to be creative in thinking of, and developing, a story, while also ensuring that students are encouraged to listen to each other.

It could be used as free practice for the narrative tenses for intermediate and upper-intermediate students, or as an ice breaker for higher levels.

Creative Video Project Ideas for Students

Video projects are a great way to engage younger students for longer stints. If a video is produced by their peers, interest will skyrocket. Video projects also offer a new way for students to explore their creative side. Here are some of our favorite creative video project ideas.

10 Ways to Cultivate a Love of Reading in Students

Ten suggestions for how any teacher, teaching any subject can participate in this mission, and how parents and administrators can help.

6 Activities for Generating Enthusiasm in the Foreign Language Classroom

This article provides games and activities in classrooms that can help generate enthusiasm to learn foreign languages.

25 Tips for a More Successful and Fun World Language Class

The article gives tips on how to make learning languages in a classroom setting more successful and fun. These tips can be both applied to the teachers and classroom activities.

How We Teach Chinese

At Avondale each child from Preschool to Middle school enjoys a daily language lesson from a dedicated teacher. Recent results in the HSK exams indicate how effective the Avondale Chinese programme is.

Making Malay Meaningful for Students

Step into Mr Aidil Subhan’s classroom and you may see pupils trying to figure out how to make a hot drink of Ovaltine, or how to cook a packet of instant noodles. These food wrappers and drink packets are his “textbooks” – the materials he uses to introduce the Malay language to his students.