The 21st century learners can provide the EFL teachers with teaching materials
There is an awesome site on the Internet called “Conversation questions for the ESL/EFL classroom“. The site has over 270 topics with thousands of questions on them. This is a valuable resource for ESL/EFL teachers. The questions make the students express their own ideas and thoughts about different phenomena. I don’t usually choose the topics myself. I leave the choice to the students, with the mindset that they will speak better and more enthusiastically about the issues they are really interested in.
A few days ago I gave a home assignment to my 10th graders asking them to choose one topic out of 270 and then to choose the most interesting 10 questions and answer them. The result was beyond my expectations. Read more in Yura Ganjalyan's blog.