EFL Classroom 2.0

This lesson plan is based on a video animation called 7 Billion by National Geographic magazine which in a yearlong series is examining the challenges and solutions we face as the worldwide population reaches 7 billion in 2011.

This article describes various approaches to teaching literature and provides a rationale for an integrated approach to teaching literature in the language classroom based on the premise that literature is language and language can indeed be literary.

the use of literature in the EFL classroom can provide a powerful pedagogic tool in learners’ linguistic development.

As teachers of English as a Foreign Language our main concern is to help learners acquire communicative competence. For this reason we tend to focus on teaching standard forms of linguistic expression