IN THE PICTURE I CAN SEE...-matura:) Ustny egzamin maturalny z języka angielskiego- na to hasło większość maturzystów dostaje ataku serca;) Strach przed mówieniem w języku obcym jest tak wszechogarniający, że nie pozwala zebrać myśli, wymazuje z pamięci słówka, o gramatyce nie wspominając...Bariera językowa to temat całkiem poważny, poświęcony mu będzie osobny wpis. A dziś garść wskazówek i kilka ćwiczeń- zajmiemy się opisem ilustracji. W skrócie ( bo i czasu na wykonanie zadania podczas egzaminu jest niewiele- zaledwie 4 minuty, i to razem z odpowiedziami na pytania!) : 1.
Naucz się dobrze zwrotu, od którego zaczniesz opis (np. . - pomoże ci to 'ruszyć' z wypowiedzią. 2. . - dzięki temu nie pogubisz się i poruszysz najważniejsze kwestie. 3. . - to konieczność! 4. Pierwszy plan (In the foreground there is/are), pogodę, charakterystyczne szczegóły; przypuść, jak mogą się czuć ludzie na zdjęciu. 5. 6. Prośbę o przekształcenie (Can you paraphrase, please?) 7. A trzecie- wydarzenia z przeszłości (Past Simple i Past Continuous). Stories & Poems.
Strong adjectives. 10 Ideas to Make Your Teachers' Lounge a Positive Space | The TpT Blog. This post originally appeared on the blog Presto Plans. When I first started teaching, I remember receiving the advice (more than once) to avoid the teachers’ lounge. They would tell me to stay away because it was a negative environment where people only go to complain. Of course, being a new teacher, I just smiled and nodded, but I always felt that was unfair advice to give someone starting out. If all of the positive and optimistic teachers are told to stay out of the lounge, of course it is going to be a negative place! Maya Angelou said, “What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it.” Below you will find 10 ideas to make your teachers’ lounge a more positive space: 1. I once had a principal who left notes of appreciation (and a small treat) in teachers’ mailboxes for little things she had noticed teachers doing (staying late at school working, helping out at an after-school event, giving extra help at lunch etc.). 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
PBN Environment - 10 Things The Government Doesn't Want... Hot Fun: Activities that Keep your English Classes Laughing and Learning. Describing places adjectives. Authentic materials in the classroom: the advantages | World of Better Learning. Published 16 May 2014 In the first part of a new series on authenticity, our regular contributor and Unlock author Lewis Lansford asks teachers to consider the advantages of using authentic materials in the ELT classroom. I asked a dozen teaching colleagues (identified below by their initials) for reflections on the advantages and disadvantages of using authentic materials in the classroom. From their comments – many of which were generously long and thoughtful – three main ideas emerged: 1) We need to define the term ‘authentic’ and also include in the discussion the ideas of ‘adapted’ and ‘semi-authentic’ materials. 2) Authentic materials offer great advantage over materials written for the purpose of language learning. 3) There are also many disadvantages to using them.
In this post, I’ll discuss what we mean by ‘authentic materials’ and look at some of the advantages they offer in the classroom. What do we mean by ‘authentic’? Why we like authentic materials. Learning zones. Konwersacje - inspiracje. The Seven Best Short Films for ELT Students - Kieran Donaghy. I’ve been writing lesson plans designed around short films for my website Film English for six years.
Teachers often ask me how I find the short films I use in my lesson plans. The answer is quite simple: I’ve watched literally thousands of short films and developed an instinct for the type of engaging and simple short films which will work in the ELT classroom. In this article I’d like to share what for me are the seven best short films for the language classroom. The Mirror The Mirror is a short film by Ramon and Pedro which tells the story of a boy’s journey from childhood to old age. It works very well for getting students speaking, writing and using vocabulary related to age, face, body, mood and actions. You can watch the film below and find a full lesson plan here. The Notebook The notebook is a moving short film by Greg Gray and is wonderful for introducing the theme of empathy. The Present Soar I Forgot My Phone i-Diots Fear of Flying. LearnEnglish – British Council.
English is the language of Shakespeare and the language of Chaucer. It’s spoken in dozens of countries around the world, from the United States to a tiny island named Tristan da Cunha. It reflects the influences of centuries of international exchange, including conquest and colonization, from the Vikings through the 21st century. Here are 25 maps and charts that explain how English got started and evolved into the differently accented languages spoken today. The origins of English 1) Where English comes from English, like more than 400 other languages, is part of the Indo-European language family, sharing common roots not just with German and French but with Russian, Hindi, Punjabi, and Persian. 2) Where Indo-European languages are spoken in Europe today Saying that English is Indo-European, though, doesn’t really narrow it down much. 3) The Anglo-Saxon migration 4) The Danelaw The next source of English was Old Norse. 5)The Norman Conquest 6) The Great Vowel Shift The spread of English Credits.
TeachingEnglish - British Council. This semester in my TESL course, I am introducing my students to ways in which they can incorporate mobile devices into their teaching. All of the things I am showing them I have already used in my English language courses at one time or another. My hope is to get them thinking about how they can have students use these devices to help their language learners instead of fighting against their use in class. As many of you know, I don’t have a problem with phones, tablets, and other types of computing devices in my classroom since I see the real problem as being much deeper. The problems with distractions and potential cheating has very little to do with the devices themselves and more to do with things such as motivation.
You may have seen studies on both sides of this debate, but most of them have to do with surface issues and don’t deal with things such as teacher training on the use of technology in the classroom and approaches to teaching. Criteria: Poll Everywhere What is it? Tlk.io. TeachingEnglish - British Council. As many short films are artistic, they have limited appeal in the commercial marketplace and are funded from diverse sources. To make them easier to sell worldwide, they often contain little or no dialogue, which makes comprehension much easier.
As a result, they offer intensely ‘filmic’ experiences, using images and movement, sequence and duration, sound and music to tell their stories. These silent films are perfect for the language classroom as they can be used with any level – the teacher just needs to adapt the difficulty of the task to match the level of the students. Here are the seven short films which I have found work best in the language classroom. Your Secret Your Secret is a wonderful short film by Jean-Sebastian Monzani. What I like most about the film is that it involves the viewers and encourages them to take an active and creative part. You can watch the film below and find a full lesson plan here. Your secret from Jean-Sebastien Monzani on Vimeo.
Taking Pictures Moments Amar. LearnEnglish – British Council. What can film and video add to the learning experience? Kieran Donaghy, who won the British Council’s TeachingEnglish blog award tells us why film is such a good resource and recommends some useful websites, in one of our top five articles of all time, illustrated by artist Jamie Johnson. Language teachers have been using films in their classes for decades, and there are a number of reasons why film is an excellent teaching and learning tool. Learning from films is motivating and enjoyable Motivation is one of the most important factors in determining successful second-language acquisition. Films and TV shows are an integral part of students’ lives so it makes perfect sense to bring them into the language classroom. Film, as a motivator, also makes the language learning process more entertaining and enjoyable. Film provides authentic and varied language Another benefit of using film is that it provides a source of authentic and varied language.
Film gives a visual context Lesson plans Allat C. TeachingEnglish - British Council. iPad Published on June 18th, 2016 | by Mark Anderson First things first. It’s never just about the apps. End of. The last periodic table was taken by a number of schools and rebranded, removing my name and having their name put on by them in replacement. For those that are interested, I made it using Photoshop. If you’d like a higher resolution version of the image, please download it from here or share this link >> Tags: #iPad, ipad apps, learning, periodic table, periodic table vol 2 About the Author Mark Anderson Mark Anderson is a former assistant headteacher, an award winning blogger and education technology expert, keynote speaker, best-selling author of 'Perfect ICT Every Lesson' and independent consultant. How to make a good teacher. FORGET smart uniforms and small classes.
The secret to stellar grades and thriving students is teachers. One American study found that in a single year’s teaching the top 10% of teachers impart three times as much learning to their pupils as the worst 10% do. Another suggests that, if black pupils were taught by the best quarter of teachers, the gap between their achievement and that of white pupils would disappear. But efforts to ensure that every teacher can teach are hobbled by the tenacious myth that good teachers are born, not made. Classroom heroes like Robin Williams in “Dead Poets Society” or Michelle Pfeiffer in “Dangerous Minds” are endowed with exceptional, innate inspirational powers. Government policies, which often start from the same assumption, seek to raise teaching standards by attracting high-flying graduates to join the profession and prodding bad teachers to leave. The premise that teaching ability is something you either have or don’t is mistaken.
Mastering pragmatics with Macmillan Dictionary. Learning a language is about understanding what words mean, grammar, spelling and pronunciation. But there is more to it than that. As part of the Macmillan Education Life Skills series, Macmillan Dictionary focuses on an area of language learning students of English often find difficult to master: pragmatics. Lesson plan of the month This lesson plans was written by author Jonathan Marks to help learners with pragmatics. Overview: In this pragmatics lesson, learners develop their awareness and understanding of expressions meaning I don't know and practise using these expressions.
Total time for activities: between 30 and 35 minutes Level: upper intermediate to advanced Includes: student worksheets, teacher's notes and answer key Download this lesson plan Pragmatics lesson plans per topic The following lesson plans are designed to help students learn phrases and expressions that are used in everyday life. What is pragmatics? Free resources How do you say politely that you don't know something? LearnEnglish – British Council. TeachingEnglish - British Council. Much to learn, you still have. – Joda. Despite the evidence that the number of irregular verbs is declining in the English language, there is no danger they will disappear, and the struggle will continue. There are many attempts to find a shortcut in learning irregular verbs, yet with all the options and “magic tricks” available, learning these verbs requires much memorization, drilling and practice.
Today I will show how I use the Battleship game to drill and practise irregular verbs in a fun way. Before the game: Each player will need two 10×10 grids – one with irregular verbs in each square, and one blank grid. You can either prepare them in advance – laminate the grids to make them reusable – or get your learners to fill in the squares in the grids with the verbs they need to practise. Click the Grids to download them. The players then mark where they want to place their ships by circling rows, horizontally or vertically. Each player’s fleet consists of the following ships: How to play: TeachingEnglish - British Council. The creative life is simple: get up, get dressed, get on with it.Chuck Sandy.
Creativity is the new Holy Grail of today’s life. The quest for creativity seems to have reached the proportion of global mass hysteria: schools are blamed for “killing it” and called for “teaching it as a matter of urgency” (Do it now, do it fast); CEOs have set it as a number one priority for their employees; academia, educators, psychology gurus (and just random people who “are creative and they know it”) are offering “new and creative” ways to “awaken”, “unleash,” “unblock”, “unlock” or “set it free” at home, at school, or at work to secure global peace and happiness (and return on investment). Can we really teach creativity? 10 posters, 6 presentations, 3 videos and 5 poems – this makes a great yearly creative output, no? We need to measure creativity somehow, so we measure it by the stuff made or ideas produced.
(Their quality is again measured according to public opinion. Creativity is a way of life. E.g. TeachingEnglish - British Council. You might expect that, after having been exposed to a word in ten, twenty, or maybe at the very most thirty, contexts, a learner will gradually piece together the word's meaning and start to use it correctly, appropriately and fluently. Classroom context Seven steps to vocabulary learning Conclusion Classroom context Of course we cannot expect a learner to acquire difficult words in the same way as a young child acquires their first language, but, perhaps as teacher we can somehow help learners to arouse their 'learning monitor' by, for example, providing rich contexts containing the target language and by giving our learners time to reflect on what the language item means.
In this way teachers can use the EFL classroom to replicate the real world and nurture strategies to help students understand and produce difficult language items which often seem beyond their grasp. Seven steps to vocabulary learning Here are some practical steps that I have used to help my students. Paul Bress. Anna Popławska. Wednesday, 18 February 2015 10 very real teacher ailments and diseases I can't understand why these aren't in medical journals! 1. Endoftermitis: This disease normally occurs at the end of term but sometimes afflicts teachers at half-term breaks too. Symptoms vary but usually include exhaustion, shattered nerves and a common cold. 2.
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