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Funny Science Jokes for Kids. ACS PROTOPAGE. ESL Teacher Resources, Job Boards, and Worksheets. 10 lifesaving websites for ESL teachers. Lisa has asked me for some recommendations regarding useful sites for EFL teachers and I’m happy to make a little compilation of the places I visit most often to find ideas, inspirations, betimes lesson plans if I feel exceptionally lazy (The Liberation of the Garden Gnomes by Peter Vahle is just shiny!)

10 lifesaving websites for ESL teachers

And share them with you. So, here we go – my ten favourite websites: Hope you’ll like my choice and give these sites a go. I must admit, my life as a teacher is WAY easier thanks to those wonderful people contributing there, but I also appreciate their influence when I see my own teaching style spiced up with different inspirations and ideas – I feel motivated to change, experiment, develop, to make my classes as interesting as I can. Enjoy the recommendations I’ve shared and if you know some interesting sites, please, share them with me as well. Enjoy! Like this: Like Loading... Ten common mistakes made by English learners - learn English,mistakes,english. Ten common mistakes made by English learners - learn English,mistakes,english. Goodbye to 'he' and 'she' and hello to 'ze'? We are opening up to the idea that binary conceptions of gender are unnecessarily rigid and don't correspond to the self-image of a great many people, and even that people's sense of their gender may not correspond to their biological sex.

Goodbye to 'he' and 'she' and hello to 'ze'?

In this new world, a bland opposition between "he" and "she" seems increasingly antique, and even insulting, to many. However, doing something about that is going to be a challenge. We are dealing not with merely giving new names to new things or actions, which is easy, but with using new pronouns, which is very hard. This is hard because human cognition makes some parts of language more resistant to change than others.

Nouns, verbs and adjectives, for example, are like software. We expect them to change from era to era -- of course we now have blogs and twerking when we didn't 20 years ago; of course young people now call "fierce" what their equivalents long ago called "keen," "neat," "wicked," "rad," and so on. Registration process. Photos du journal - Awakening People. Learn English for Free with elllo! EnglishCentral. 30-day-challenge - years 4-6 - Google Docs. BBC Bitesize - GCSE English Language. 30-day-challenge - years 4-6 - Google Docs. Printable Resources and Online Activities. Sylviaduckworth. Crafting Connections: Anchors Away Monday {8.4.14} Types of Sentences.

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Crafting Connections: Anchors Away Monday {8.4.14} Types of Sentences

It's time for another installment of... This anchor chart is designed to assist in teaching students the four types of sentences. I created an interactive notebook page to use with students that uses matching clip art. This way, students' notebook entries will match the anchor chart on the wall! This file also contains the pieces to make your own anchor chart. Well, I'm off to go shopping! Also, click HERE to enter my giveaway (a chance to win a TPT gift card, a Starbucks gift card, and one of my back-to-school activities)! Have you created an anchor chart which has proven to be helpful to your students?

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