1. Post-It Here,
Post-It There,
You Can Post It Anywhere
Kateryna Protsenko
International House Kyiv
The International House
Teachers Online Conference
9th May, 2014

4. INDIVIDUAL ERROR CORRECTION

5. INDIVIDUAL ERROR CORRECTION
• Stick the notes onto your coursebook;
• Write your learners’ names;
• Record their errors;
• Record instances of successful language usage.
GOOD for individual attention.
EXTRA IDEA: Learner’s portfolio

6. ERROR CORRECTION BY AREAS

7. ERROR CORRECTION BY AREAS
Lexis Pronunciation
Grammar Discourse
Speaking To-Be-Shared

8. SPEAKING IN THE FORM OF WRITING

9. SPEAKING IN THE FORM OF WRITING
• Assign tasks to your learners;
• Hand out Post-it notes;
• Have learners complete the task by writing what they
want to say on post-it notes;
• Stress (!) the fact that they can write one sentence on
one note.
GOOD for adjacency pairs, back channeling devices etc.
EXTRA IDEA: chat rooms.

10. USING POST-IT NOTES IN SPEAKING
Romeo and Juliet:
Did Shakespeare
visit Verona?
Marie Curie:
How did she meet
her husband?

11. USING POST-IT NOTES IN SPEAKING
• Use in transactional speaking;
• Have students note down questions they want to
ask the speaker.
GOOD for keeping students involved.
EXTRA IDEA: noting down target language, e.g. how
many times the speaking says ‘well’ or ‘didn’t’.

12. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ON POST-IT
NOTES

13. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS ON POST-IT
NOTES
• Prepare questions on post-it notes, stick them to
the walls around the classroom (hallway?);
• Have students walk around and discuss.
Communicative focus?!
GOOD for stirring students.
EXTRA IDEA: have students come up with questions;
stick questions upside down 

14. RECORDING NEW LEXIS

15. RECORDING NEW LEXIS
• Write new lexis on post-it notes instead of
copybooks;
• Working with page 12? Stick post-it notes there.
GOOD for keeping the vocabulary organized; visual.
EXTRA IDEA: color-coding for topics / parts of
speech / functions

16. NOTING DOWN ANSWERS

17. NOTING DOWN ANSWERS
• Learners stick a post-it note next to (onto) an
exercise;
• Note down their own and correct answers.
GOOD for going through the same exercise
again.
EXTRA IDEA: personalization.

18. PHRASE OF THE DAY

19. PHRASE OF THE DAY
• Like quotes as much as I do?
• One page – one quote.
GOOD for chunks – no need to explain ‘money
makes the world go round’ to elementary
learners.
EXTRA IDEA: color coding!