CAPtain's Language Adventure

   Ahoy, Me Hearties!  Today, I’m sharing our adventure into creating a flipped classroom material for our English lessons. But first, what’s a flipped classroom, you ask? It’s a teaching approach where students learn the basics of a topic outside the classroom—through videos, readings, or other resources—and use class time for discussions, activities, and deeper learning. For language classes, this approach can be a game-changer! On the plus side, it gives students control over their learning pace, freeing up classroom time for practice and interaction. But on the flip side, not every student has access to the necessary tech, and some may need extra motivation to engage with the material outside class. Our task was to create a flipped classroom video about the Past Continuous Tense —a core topic in English grammar. We divided the content into four sections: What is it? , positive forms , negative forms , and question forms. I handled the recording and editing for my pa...

  Ahoy, Me Hearties!  Let me tell you about a task we recently tackled that was as exciting as it was challenging. My crew of four; Mustafa , Samet , Abdülhamid , and of course me; created a corpus-based teaching material for 9th graders, all about the tricky duo: do vs. make. To make it even better, we built a detailed lesson plan based on the ASSURE model using our material. It was an adventure packed with learning, creativity, and a few bumps along the way. So, what’s inside this treasure chest of a teaching material? It’s a four-part journey:  Test Your Knowledge: A quick warm-up to check what students already know. Improve Your Knowledge with Corpus: Students dive into real-life language examples from a corpus to spot patterns. Discovery: This section encourages students to figure out the rules themselves by analyzing the corpus data. Practice: Exercises to apply and reinforce what they’ve learned. We designed the material using Canva for its visual appeal and clarit...