Begüm Survives ELT!

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...

  Bonjour à tous, et bienvenue dans mon nouveau billet de blog ! For this week's project, we have designed a teaching material and an ASSURE-based lesson plan focusing on countable and uncountable nouns. The assignment tasked us to create a worksheet with four activities, integrate both corpus tools and AI tools, and then reflect on the overall process. We made this task with my friends,  Sude  and  Halil . You can find their blogs by clicking on their names.👍😁 In our worksheet, we did a brief warm-up where students had to guess whether certain nouns were countable or uncountable. The second activity asked them to observe real corpus examples from SKELL or COCA and to notice the appearance of determiners and plural endings inductively. The third activity contained some short production tasks, such as formulating sample sentences based on the rules they discovered. Lastly, Activity 4 introduced AI: students created a shopping list and a short dialogue, then asked an...

  Hi everyone, it's me again! I’ve honestly missed writing blog posts! So, I’d like to take a moment and explain why I’m back. Especially after saying goodbye last time 😉 As you might remember, I created this blog for my ICT course. Well, this time I’ll be using it for my Current Issues in Teaching course. Throughout the semester, I’ll be completing a series of assignments, and I’ll be sharing my reflections, thoughts, and experiences with each one right here. For now, we’re just waiting for the first assignment to arrive. Trust me, I’m just as excited as you are! See you in the next post. Love you all! 💗

Bonjour mes chères amies, pour la dernière fois! Every good thing has to come to an end... Well, this is my last post. Before this ICT course, I wasn’t very confident about using technology in teaching. I knew it was important, but I didn’t really know how to use it in creative ways. I thought technology meant videos or slides, nothing more. But this course totally changed that for me. Each week, I learned something new. Not just about tools, but about how to think like a teacher. My favorite task was the infographic . Once I got the hang of the design tool, I actually had so much fun. I loved turning information into something clear, simple, and visual. It felt creative and satisfying. I could definitely see myself using infographics in the future, both as a teacher and a student. The AI interview task was interesting too, but it felt less “me.” Still, I learned a lot about how technology can be used to bring historical figures or literature to life in a classroom setting. Overal...