Melanie Keel
British English language teacher 10 years working background in accountancy and administration for International chartered surveyors "Kingsturge", fashion brand "Miss Sixty" and property management "Canary Wharf". 6 Years international teaching experience with children, adults and incompany, in Thailand, UK, Spain and Ecuador BA Hons Degree - Business and Finance CELTA - University of Cambridge teaching English to Adults TEFL - Teaching English as a foriegn language A few words about me: creative, fun, innovative, dedicated, open minded, fair, happy, kind, interesting, passionate, intelligent, inquisative and highly intuitative ;)
Motivating speaking activities for lower levels. Planning time has been shown to increase production in speaking tasks.
Lower level learners often find it especially difficult to speak spontaneously, so these activities incorporate 'thinking time' during which learners can prepare for speaking by planning what they are going to say, and asking the teacher or using a dictionary to look up missing vocabulary. The following activities are relatively short, with minimal materials preparation time for the teacher. They are designed for use as a warmer or a filler in the middle or at the end of a class. 1. Definitions lists This activity is good for activating existing vocabulary or revising vocabulary studied in previous lessons. Procedure Choose a vocabulary topic (this can be vocabulary you have recently studied or a topic you want to introduce).
A faster-moving, fun alternative to this activity is a team game. 2. 3. This is a variation on the above activity and is great for practising adjectives. 4. 5. 6.
The Cancer-Test Kid. After a family friend died of pancreatic cancer, high school sophomore Jack Andraka invented a diagnostic strip that could detect the disease in its early stages.
WHIZ KID: Jack Andraka’s tireless work in the Johns Hopkins University lab of pathologist Anirban Maitra paid off in the form of a $75,000 scholarship.COURTESY OF JACK ANDRAKAIn the spring of 2011, 15-year-old Jack Andraka had a lot on his mind. A close friend of the family, a man who was like an uncle to Andraka, had recently died of pancreatic cancer. Reading up on the disease, the then high school freshman discovered that around 85 percent of pancreatic cancers are diagnosed too late, when patients have less than a 2 percent chance of survival. The reason, Andraka learned, was that the best tools for early detection are both expensive and woefully inaccurate. 5 great writing warm up activities... and what they lead to. I think you might want to download these activities so you can use them later… so here’s a handy PDF file of this blog post!
Warm up activities that get learners writing can be fantastic for getting the creative juices flowing while also giving a focused start to your lesson. A writing task at the start of class can be an effective way of leading into explicit grammar teaching or can just as easily be followed up with speaking activities. What’s more, many such activities are easy to adapt to be suitable for any type of learners, both adults and kids. Indeed, adding an entertaining element to writing activities will make them fun for everyone, as well as making them low pressure tasks which enable learners’ writing to flow freely.
Here are five of my favourites. 1. Ok, everyone in the world knows this classic set up: a genie has just granted three wishes to everyone in the class. Where can you take this? 2. You can examine the new adjectives used by the learners. 3. 4. 5. Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: How a Louisiana Student is Teaming With Top Scientists to Reform Science Education. Zack Kopplin does not spend his time the way you might expect from a typical college student.
At 20, it seems more likely for him to be out every night, killing more brain cells than he uses. Instead, he has become a noteworthy advocate for science education reform in public schools. In 2008, the Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA) was passed and signed into law. This gave K-12 educators the ability to critique subjects such as evolution and climate change. Though the Act states there should be no bias toward a religion, it opens the door for supplementary materials to be used, effectively “teaching the controversy” as desired by proponents of Intelligent Design and creationism. Is there an inherent harm in teaching creationism alongside evolution?
Hail the Kale! More Vegan Grub on the High Street. 27 Sep Good news for sandwich fans!
PETA UK Vegan Food Award winner and national fast-food chain Pret A Manger has added even more vegan goodies to its offerings! A new Super Greens sandwich, featuring kale, spinach and avocado, joins its Naked Avocado Bloomer as a vegan option on its sandwich shelf. It’s also added more varieties of vegan soup: the beetroot and horseradish soup, South Indian tomato and spice soup, smoky root vegetable and bean soup and butternut squash and sage soup are all delicious and free of animal products. Pret has also added a page to its “What Can I Eat” guide that details all the choices for hungry herbivores. Earlier this month, Pret won a PETA UK Vegan Food Award, which highlighted the best food for compassionate eaters.
The number of plant-based foods will only grow as more and more Britons make the compassionate decision to go vegan. Environment and climate change. Cookies on the New Scientist website close Our website uses cookies, which are small text files that are widely used in order to make websites work more effectively.
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