Our First Meeting

Journal Question

Get students to practice their writing online by prompting them with journal questions to respond to. (This is great practice for the new iBT TOEFL, where they will have thirty minutes to type their essay response to a similar style question.)



A useful source for questions is http://iteslj.org/questions/.

"Post a comment" to respond to the following question:

What does your dream house look like? Use details to support your response.

Suggestions for Movie Titles

During our first meeting, we tried out some different activities we can use in our classes to motivate students to understand and use the English in motion pictures. Most of the activities used two to seven minute clips of popular movies that we would need to play in most cases at least three times.

Here are some titles to get us started. Post a comment with other movie titles or TV shows!

The Patriot, Erin Brockovich, ET, Signs, Star Wars, KPAX, Pay It Forward, Shrek, Babe, Pirates of the Caribbean, School of Rock, Clue, Freaky Friday, Good Will Hunting, The Incredibles, The Little Mermaid, Sweet Home Alabama, Toy Story, Harry Potter, Finding Nemo, Indiana Jones, Gandhi, Dead Poets Society, Max Dugan Returns, Mr. Holland’s Opus, Election, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Instinct, A Few Good Men, Gladiator, Forrest Gump, Stepmom, I am Sam, Bowling for Columbine, The Green Mile...

Welcome Senior Teachers of English!

Welcome to our group blog for English Language Teaching in Bahrain! This blog is meant to be an example to illustrate possible applications such a web log could have for use by your classes or by your fellow teachers. It is also meant to support and follow up our own discussions as we meet during the Spring semester 2007.