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 Hello to all of you! It's alperen. This week our subject was flipped-classroom approach. we were asked to prepare a teaching video for our lecturer. Allow me to briefly describe it. In basic terms, the flipped classroom approach offers both in-class and out-of-class learning experiences in a student-centered learning environment.  The flipped classroom strategy offers benefits as well as drawbacks. Let's begin by talking about the benefits. An engaged and student-centered learning process is offered by this method. Additionally, it is tailored and adapted to the requirements of the students. Yet, a few drawbacks could make the procedure more difficult. For example, it necessitates student autonomy and drive. Due to their independence, students occasionally fail to finish assigned assignments, which results in gaps in their classroom knowledge. For sixth graders, my partner Hatice and I created a teaching film about the location of cities. Because of the tool we chose, the pr...

       Hi again. I haven't posted anything on my blog in a while, and I really missed this. We took a class this year called ‘Current Issues in ELT,’ and one of the assignments we had to finish was ‘corpus-based.’ I completed the task individually. My topic was quantifiers (only many, some and a little). I prepared this worksheet for 9th-grade students in a public school who have some difficulties while making the distinctions of these quantifiers.      The idea of creating a new thing sounded appealing but it wasn't that appealing for me and I struggled a bit. There were many stages like designing the layout, creating exercises, deciding on a template, etc. It took a lot of time but it was totally worth it.      There are four activities on my worksheet. After completing the first activity, which checks the students' background knowledge, they will be able to recognize their areas of weakness and be encouraged to concentrate on them whe...