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Anyway/Apparently/Actually

Recently I have posted my first worksheet on ISLCollective . For those who don't now it's an excellent site with TEFL resources where you can freely download but also share your original material. The worksheet that I created deals with differences between "anyway", "apparently" and "actually". I felt the urge to create this worksheet because these words appeared (among others) in a gap fill exercise in the book New Inside Out  intermediate( SB, p. 65, informal email). As a way of preteaching I decided to focus on these three adverbs which all begin with the same letter and are of similar length, which might make them difficult to differentiate for students at this level. I had found the sentences used in the exercise on the Internet and in some cases I have slightly altered them to make the gap-fill as unambiguous as possible. The worksheet has proved successful and the students didn't have problems doing the exercise after I had put a few...

Introduction to this blog

The objective of this blog is to record real life situations in a TEFL classroom and to summarize successful and unsuccessful aspects of a particular class with addition of subsequent analyses. The name of the blog is "TEFL guinea pigs" because that's what I sometimes jokingly call my students when I give them a worksheet that I created or when I am trying out an original methodological approach. In this blog I will focus on language and methodology related topics and anything else that I might deem important for a successful English class. A little bit about me: I am a CELTA-certified English teacher with work experience in Russia, Ireland and Germany. I currently work and reside in Berlin.