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listing: list the colors of the rainbow

ordering and sorting: classify them from your favorite color to your least favorite one

Matching: Write and match the colors that you come across most in your class with what they come across.

Comparing: Compare the color you come across most often with the color you come across the least.

Problem-solving: What colors would you add to add a more fun vibe to the classroom?

Creative Project: Find out what colors you can mix and get which colors through that

Sharing personal experiences, Story-telling: Create a story including all the colors of the rainbow and use them according to from your favorite one to least favorite one

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Listing: List 10 cartoons that you have watched so far.

Ordering and Sorting: Classify them according to your frequency of watching.

Matching: Match the cartoons that are on the same channel.

Comparing: Compare the contents of the cartoons. Which content and channel do you prefer most?

Problem Solving: Why do you prefer this kind of contents and channels. Write down some reasons?

Creative Project: Create a poster/banner about your favorite cartoon including its channel and  content.

Sharing your personal experiences and storytelling: Share with your friends some reasons why others should definitely watch your favorite cartoon.

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Listing: List the seasons that you know of.

Ordering and sorting: Write the weather conditions that are probable in the season under the four major seasons accordingly.

Matching: Match the months with the seasons aaccording to your country.

Comparing: Compare weather conditions in the eastern part and the western part of the country.

Problem-Solving: A tourist is travelling to a country with extremely hot summer conditions. The tourist packed their bag with winter clothing. Write possible clothing items that they can pack in order to deal with this issue.

Creative Project: Prepare a seasons chart that includes all of the major and minor seasons that happen in the world.

Sharing Personal Experiences: Which season were you born in and is it your favorite season? Share your reasons if yes/no.

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Listing: Make a list of the weather conditions you can remember.

Ordering: Please put the weather conditions in the same season groups.

Matching: Match the clothes you can wear in specific weather conditions with the pictures.

Comparing: Please list the pros and cons to compare and contrast your 2 favourite weather conditions.

Problem-Solving: You go out without taking your umbrella with you and it starts to rain. What other objects can you use to keep you dry?

Creative Project-Survey: Design and draw a miraculous outfit that protects you from harsh weather conditions.

Sharing personal experiences: Please discuss how you feel in different weather conditions. After that, you can share stories (if you have any)about harsh weather conditions with the classroom.

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Listing: List 10 things we can do thanks to technology.

Ordering and sorting: Rank 5 technological tools you use the most in your daily life.

Matching: Match the technological device with its purpose.

Comparing: Compare the benefits and drawbacks of modern technology.

Problem solving: Develop a possible solution to one of the drawbacks of modern technology.

Creative project: Build a simple robot using household items: for example, use cardboard, paper cups etc.

Sharing personal experiences: How are you with technology? Can you share a technological tool you want to try? What's the weirdest tech gadget you've ever used?

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Listing: List and describe ten different dishes from Turkish cuisine, including their ingredients and cooking methods.

Ordering: Order the dishes from most delicious to least delicious based on your taste

Matching: Match the dishes to their corresponding regions in Turkey.

Comparing: Compare and contrast Turkish cuisine's ingredients and cooking methods with a cuisine from a different region or country.

Problem-Solving: Imagine you are hosting a Turkish cuisine dinner party for 10 guests. However, one of your guests has dietary restrictions (e.g., gluten-free, vegetarian, etc.). Create a new menu for these guests.

Creative Project: Create a new dish that combines two or more traditional Turkish dishes in a unique way. Describe the dish, its ingredients, and its cooking method.

Sharing Personal Experiences: Share a personal experience or memory related to Turkish cuisine. It could be a dish you tried for the first time, a meal you shared with friends or family, or a food-related tradition you observed during your travels in Turkey.

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Listing: Begin by making a list of all your favorite recipes.

Ordering: Organize the recipes by categories such as desserts, main courses etc.

Matching: Match the recipes with the countries they belong to (Chinese, Mexican etc.)

Comparing: Next, compare your recipes to others you find online or in cookbooks. Look for other versions of your preferred dishes.

Problem Solving: As you work through the recipes, you may encounter some challenges or unexpected results. Use your problem-solving skills to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. Also use the disadvantages to your advantage as you might even come up with a new variation on the recipe while making mistakes.

Creative Project: Experiment with different ingredients, spices, and cooking techniques to put your own unique twist on your favorite recipes. Don't be afraid to take risks and try something new.

Sharing Personal Experience: Share your personal experience by writing up your recipes and including anecdotes about where you first tried them, who you've cooked them for, and any special memories associated with the dish. You might want to include photos or illustrations to make your recipe book more special.

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Listing: Make a list of holidays of different countries.

Ordering and sorting: Rank them from the most interesting one to the least interesting one.

Matching: Match the photos of holidays with the countries that they belong to.

Comparing: Compare the two holidays of your list in terms of their similarities and differences.

Problem-solving: You have a foreign friend and you will be in his/her country on the holiday of his/her country. You will go there with your family and they don’t know anything about that day. How would you make them ready for the holiday? What would you teach them about it?

Creative project/survey: Choose one day from a month that you want. That day will be a holiday for your country. What makes that day special? Prepare a poster that has information about it.

Sharing personal experiences: Think about a holiday in your country and what you did that day. How was it and how did you feel? Share your thoughts with your classmates.

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Listing: Specify the hobbies and travel preferences of your group. Which do you prefer, indoor or outdoor attractions? Create a list of the sights, things to do, and events you must attend.

Ordering:The locations and activities are listed in priority order. Choose which are essential and which you can omit if you're too tired or pressed for time.

Matching: Map out the activities and their associated places.

Comparing: Compare and contrast the various transportation methods. Will you own a vehicle or rent one? Will you hire a tour guide or use public transportation?

Problem Solving: Overcome any difficulties that may appear when traveling. What if it starts to rain or snow? What if someone in your group becomes ill or hurt? Have a backup plan and be ready for unforeseen circumstances.

Creative Project: Make a creative project to record the journey. Create a travel journal, a photo album, a video montage, or a scrapbook. Add your own insights, observations, and reflections about the journey.

Sharing Personal Experience: Share your personal experiences with your group. After the trip, gather your friends and share your favorite moments, and photos. Discuss what you learned, what you would do differently next time, and how the trip brought you closer together as a group.

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Listing: Make a list of your favourite fictional characters and say to your peer why you chose them.

Ordering and Sorting: Rank your favourite fictional characters according to strength, intelligence, goodness, friendliness.

Matching: Match your favourites with your peer's favourites

Comparing: Talk about which one's character would win in different situtaions.

Problem Solving: If you have a strict partner who has no interest in fictional works, you could introduce yours to them.

Creative project/ survey: Choose one pair from your and your peer's characters and create a story which both characters could be interacted with each others.

Sharing personal experinces storytelling: Which character of your pair was the most interesting one? Why?
Do you want to read/watch that character's story?

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Countries & Cultures(Yakup Kaan Soyarslan)

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Countries & Cultures(Yakup Kaan Soyarslan)

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Listing: List the countries whose flags you can describe.

Ordering & Sorting: Rank these countries in accordance to how far away from your country.

Matching: Match the continents and the countries.

Comparing: Compare the cultural aspects of your country and one of your choosing. What are some of the fundamental differences?

Problem Solving: Imagine that you work as a travel agent at the ministry of tourism for the country you compared the cultural aspects of your own country with. How could you convince the people of your country to visit this country? What steps could be taken?

Creative Project: Design an ad poster for the country you chose for the comparing and problem solving steps. Invite people to visit this country. Make it catchy!

Sharing Personal Experiences & Storytelling: Think of the places you've visited in your country/city, as well as others if you have been abroad before. What are some key factors that convinced you to visit these places?

-Yakup Kaan Soyarslan

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Listing: List at least 7 book types/genres that you know

Ordering and sorting: Rank the types/genres from worst to best

Matching: the names of books with descriptions of them given by their readers.

Comparing: Paper or screen, which one is best for reading.

Problem-solving: Ways to increase the number of people that read regularly

Creative project/survey: Create a cover design for your favorite book

Sharing personal experiences, storytelling: Talk about your favorite book

(Willis&Willis, 2007)

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Listing: Make a list of the things people do to their environment.

Ordering and Sorting: Categorize the actions on your list into those that are harmful to the environment and those that are beneficial.

Matching: Match the environment problems with their cause and consequence.

Comparing: Think about the advantages/disadvantages of living in a clean environment and a polluted one.

Problem Solving: Imagine that you have a friend who pollutes the environment despite all your warnings (throwing rubbish, not recycling etc.). Write him/her a letter of recommendation on how they can correct their behavior.

Creative Project: Design a Project draft/idea to reduce one of the problems in the matching activity in groups of 4.

Sharing Personal Experience: Have you ever been into a place with so polluted/clean environment. Share your experience with class.

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Listing: List the things that come to your mind when you say Christmas.

Ordering and Sorting: Rank them according to their importance and indispensability for you

Matching: -

Comparing: Compare the community's celebration of Christmas. Which of them is closer to you?

Problem-Solving: You are an English teacher in a private school in Turkey. Your today's topic is Christmas, and as you start the lesson, one of your students says that we do not celebrate it because it's about Christian ethics and others agree but you need to teach the lesson and make a connection between your students and the lesson topic. How would you figure it out? Write down your solution

Creative Project: Design a commercial film to break down the prejudices about Christmas

Sharing Personal Experiences and Storytelling: Think about your Christmas memories, which of them comes to your mind when you think of Christmas? share them with the class

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Listing: Make a list of things that you can do with your friends.

Ordering and sorting: Rank your favorite things to do with your friends.

Matching:You have five photos of different people in front of you. Listen to the audio and match the people in the audio with their friends.

Comparing: Compare your two friends. How are they different from each other?

Problem-solving: Think about the ways to stop your friend from distracting you in class.

Creative Project/survey: Create a poster about your best friend.

Sharing personal experiences,storytelling: Think of your friends and talk about your adventures and things you have done together.

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Listing: Make a list of books that you have read in last 6 months.

Ordering and Sorting: Classify the books in your list based on their genre.

Matching: Match the books and their authors based on the video you will watch.

Comparing: Pick a book with one of your friends, make sure both of you have read it before. Compare your thoughts about the book, rate the plot, characters' development etc. together.

Problem-solving: What can be done to encourage people to read more?

Creative Project: Imagine you are working as a designer. Create front and back covers for your favourite book.

Sharing Personal Experiences/Storytelling: Introduce 3 books that you like the most to your friends, explain what makes those books special to you in details.

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Listing: Make a list of sports that you have done at least once in your life.

Ordering and sorting: Rank them according to how much you like them.

Matching: Match the picture of the pieces of equipment with the sports.

Comparing: Which sport is the most dangerous one? Compare them.

Problem-solving: What can be done to prevent being injured while doing sports? Imagine that you are the coach of a team.

Creative project/survey: Design a jersey/uniform for your school team. Prepare a brochure about your design.

Sharing personal experiences, storytelling: What sports have you been doing for the longest time? When did you start doing it?

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Listing: List places that you want to visit.

Ordering and sorting: Classify the places on your list by continent, country, or type of appeal.

Matching: Match photos of famous landmarks with their locations on a map.

Comparing: Compare and contrast possible accommodations to stay in, such as hotels, and Airbnb.

Problem-solving: Find out possible problems one may have encountered and find solutions to them.

Creative project/survey: Create a travel blog or vlog, and share your experiences with others.

Sharing personal experiences, storytelling: Share a personal story about one of your travel experiences.

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Listing: List some healthy options for unhealthy foods such as processed fats and refined carbohydrates

Ordering and Sorting: Compare the foods in accordance with their genre. Also, discuss with your pair which you would prefer/do not prefer.

Matching: Match the type of foods such as fats, protein, carbohydrates etc in accordance with the video you watched about them.

Comparing: Determine one common mistake about nutrition that you and your pair know. Discuss if there are other wrong facts known as true by people. If so, compare them.

Problem-Solving: Find out ways to spread awareness and educate.

Creative Project: Create an eye-catching poster to make it visible to everyone in public spaces.

Sharing personal experiences, and storytelling: Share how your life and health changed after learning about healthy nutrition.

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Listing: List the daily routine activities you know.

Ordering and sorting: Classify the activities we do as morning activities and evening activities or indoor activities and outdoor activities.

Matching: Match the clocks(times) and the daily activities.

Comparing: Compare the activities you like/enjoy and dislike/find boring.

Problem-solving: Prepare a timetable that includes every essential daily routine for a friend with no time to study.

Creative Project/Survey: Shoot a video that shows every activity you do in a day in your life.

Sharing Personal Experiences, Storytelling: Tell your friends about a day you escaped all of your daily routines and just lay on your bed. How did you feel? What happened afterward?

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Listing:

Create a list of 10 breakfast foods that are popular in different cultures around the world.

Ordering and Sorting:

Rank your favorite breakfast foods, with 1 being the most favorite and 5 being the least favorite.

Matching:

Match the breakfast foods with their country of origin.

Comparing:

Compare the breakfast habits of people from different age groups, such as teenagers, young adults, and seniors. Which group has the healthiest habits?

Problem-Solving:

Develop a healthy breakfast plan for someone who wants to lose weight.

Creative Project/Survey:

Create a survey or infographic that explores the breakfast habits of people in different parts of the world.

Sharing Personal Experiences, Storytelling:

Write a short essay describing your favorite breakfast and why you love it.

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Listing: Make a list of the languages you can recall.

Ordering: Put languages that are in the same linguistic family in the same groups.

Comparing: Polish or Romanian - which of these two languages seems to be harder to learn?

Problem-solving: What would you suggest to language learners who give up and lose their motivation easily?

Creative project/survey: Create a linguistic tree with actual leaves.

Storytelling: Try to think of stories that emerge from language barriers and can actually put someone in a bad position while it could become a story to laugh at afterwards.

Yasin İsoviç

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Listing: Make a list of the songs you know.
Ordering and sorting: Classify your list of songs based on their genres.
Matching: Match the genres according to the songs you listened to in class.
Comparing: Compare the two different genres you and your pair classified. Which genre has the best songs?
Problem-solving: -
Creative project: Prepare a playlist containing the same genre of songs.
Sharing personal experiences: Think about a time when you felt sad or happy which song would you rather play in the background and why?

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English Language Teaching Methods and Approaches- Sevda İrem Aytaç

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Listing:

Make a list of the English language teaching methods and approaches you know.

Ordering and Sorting:

Classify your list of English language teaching methods and approaches as student-centered and teacher-centered.

Matching:

Match methods and approaches with given properties.

Comparing:

Compare The direct method and Grammar translation method. Which is more preferred today?

Problem-Solving:

A teacher who uses the Grammar translation method cannot use different language methods in his lessons because he does not know how to use other methods and where to start. Write an e-mail to this teacher about what he can do.

Creative project:

Prepare a chart that introduces English language teaching methods and approaches for people who don't know how to apply methods and approaches.

Sharing personal experiences:

Which method is the most interesting and which method(s) do you think you would prefer to use in your class in the future?

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Listing: Make a list of different types of transportation

Ordering and sorting: Classify your list of transportation based on how eco-friendly they are.

Matching: Match pictures of different transportation vehicles with their names.

Comparing: Which is better for transportation in a busy city, a car or public transportation?

Problem-solving: What are some ways to reduce traffic in a city?

Creative project: Design and create a model of your ideal transportation vehicle of the future.

Sharing personal experiences, storytelling: Share a story about a memorable experience you had while using public transportation.

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Listing: List the characteristics of someone with good communication skills.

Ordering and Sorting: Classify the behaviors we should and should not do to improve our communication skills.

Matching: Read the paragraphs about the problems people have in their relationships and match them with the relevant communication problems.

Comparing: Think about what people with good and bad communication skills do differently.

Problem Solving: A friend of yours had an argument with her girlfriend and he is really upset about this. When he tells you about the issue, you think that your friend is the wrong party in the argument. What would you suggest to your friend? Try to come up with some ideas.

Creative project: Prepare an infographic with suggestions to minimize communication problems.

Sharing personal experiences: Think about a sad, frustrating, or funny experience that you had because of a communication problem. Share your experiences with your friends.

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Listing: Make a list of the hobbies of yourself, friends, and adults. (If you know, hobbies characteristic to people from other countries.)

Ordering and sorting: Form group of 3-4 and put together their lists. Then, divide the hobbies on the list into hobbies for adults and hobbies for children.

Matching: Prepare photos of the hobbies written on the list. Teachers describe the characteristics of hobbies, or the tools people use to do it. Students point to the matching photo.

Comparing: Compare hobbies for adults and hobbies for children. Think about why age makes a difference. (e.g., it costs too much money.)

Problem-solving: Choose one of the hobbies for adults that is least popular with children. What can be done to make it fun for children too?

Creative project/survey: Make leaflets about hobbies.

Sharing personal experiences, storytelling: Describe a positive event related to your hobby. what made you feel positive?

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Listing: List the sort of movies that you know.

Ordering and Sorting: Classify them in accordance with their genre. Also, discuss with your pair which you like/don't like.

Matching: Match the type of movie genre in accordance with the video you watched about them.

Comparing: Determine one common movie that you and your pair know. Discuss if it has different versions. If so, compare them.

Problem-Solving: Find out ways to not get spoilers about a movie.

Creative Project: Try to record your short movie.

Sharing personal experiences, and storytelling: Share a movie in which you find out something from yourself or about your life.

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Listing : List the jobs that are popular in your country.

Ordering and sorting: Discuss in groups of three which jobs are indoor which are outdoor jobs.

Matching: Match the tools used(photo) with the Jobs( ex: construction helmet, stethoscope...).

Comparing: Compare indoor and outdoor jobs. Which one suits you more ?

Problem-solving:  You are an architect and you designed your client's kitchen according to his preferences. However, he is not satisfied with the result; therefore, he refuses to pay you.
What would you do in such a case? Write to possible solutions.

creative project: create a podcast series by interviewing the professional in the job you choose.
( question-answer).

Sharing personal experiences, storytelling: Which job was the most interesting one you had ever heard ?
Where and how did you learn about it ?

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Listing: Make a list of things that cats tend to do.

Ordering and sorting: Classify your list of things that cats tend to do into nice/not such nice things.

Matching: Photos of cats with decriptions of them given by their owners.

Comparing: Cats or dogs- which make the best pets?

Problem-solving: Ways to stop your neighbour's cats from coming into your garden.

Creative project/survey: Create a wall newspaper about cats.

Sharing personal experiences, storytelling: Think of a cat you know or a story about sth amazing a cat has done.

(Willis&Willis, 2007)