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Hello everyone! 🌟  For this week’s project, Özgür and I worked on a creative lesson plan titled " Let’s Create Our Dream City! " which focuses on integrating AI into the ELT classroom . This assignment required us to use the ASSURE model . I completed this task with my group member Özgür , and you can check his blog by clicking on his name!  In our lesson, we utilize Google Gemini to help students practice descriptive writing and comparative structures . We started with a visual warm-up where students identify five descriptive words from a sample futuristic city image . Then, the main activity involves students navigating to Gemini to generate their own "dream city" by writing detailed English prompts . To consolidate their learning, students write a short paragraph comparing their AI-generated city with the teacher's example, focusing on main differences and personal preferences . Here is our ASSURE-model lesson plan: ASSURE-model lesson plan! And here is the...

  Bonjour mon amis! Hi everyone, welcome back 🌸 In this post, I’d like to share a teaching task we designed for our Current Issues in Teaching course. This project felt special to me because it pushed me to think like a future teacher and question how technology can be used meaningfully in language classrooms. I made this task with Bernis , Sıla and Azra , if you want to see their blogs, just click on their names! Our lesson is called “Exploring Vienna” and it is designed for A2-level high school English prep students. During the lesson, students become virtual travelers and explore Vienna by scanning QR codes on a printed “Vienna Travel Agency” handout. ✈️ They visit Schönbrunn Palace, St. Stephen’s Cathedral, and the Belvedere Palace Museum through 360° virtual tours. While exploring, students answer guided questions, share their opinions, and learn about Austrian culture, including the famous Wiener Schnitzel 🍽️. At the end of the lesson, they write an 80–100 word emai...

Bonjour à tous, et bienvenue! 🌞 For this week’s project, we worked on preparing a flipped-classroom teaching video and an ASSURE-based lesson plan focusing on the Simple Past Tense, both the verb forms and the past forms of to be. This assignment required us to design a short, student-friendly instructional video, create a lesson plan for both pre- and in-class teaching using the ASSURE model and finally reflect on the whole experience. I completed this task with my group members Halil and Sude , and you can check their blogs by clicking on their names.😁 In our video, we started with a mini warm-up where students were introduced to the idea of completed past actions and past states. Then, the main scenes explained regular and irregular verbs, the difference between did/didn’t and was/were, and several time expressions such as yesterday, last week, and two years ago. We also included short practice items inside the video so that students could test themselves as they watched. After th...