Digital Storytelling. I only know one thing about the technologies that await us in the future: We will find ways to tell stories with them.
(Jason Ohler) Everyone of us has a story to tell and we all like to read or listen to stories. Stories are expressive, magical, creative, touchy and powerful sometimes. Storytelling has been with us since we started to communicate with each other and it has been part of our every day life since then and it didn't take us long to discover the importance of storytelling in education. The traditional storytelling has a new face with the growing technology today: Digital Storytelling. It is interesting and motivating for the digital natives.
We can introduce new concepts, materials and the knowledge in a meaningful way, we can organize ideas. Voicethread is my favourite. To give presentations. Dandelife is another tool where you can record your past and present on a timeline. Bubblr is a tool to create comic scripts using photos from Flickr. What can be the disadvantages? The Ghost Writer: Ghostwriters. Although this is not a typical topic for the L2 class, it can be a good source for conversation or warming a topic about reading/literature/writing.
There are so many people releasing books as ghost writers that it made my class really meaningful. "Ghost writing" is the art of writing for someone else. The Ghost Writer will write the final material and the client will take the credit for having written it. Publications - ELT Online Reading Group. Missing U. This EFL lesson plan is designed around a beautiful short film titled Missing U by Brooke Wagstaff.
Students practise pronunciation of letters, read text messages, watch a short film, read a poem, speak and write a short poem. Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2) Learner type: Teens and adults. Would you like to be a ghostwriter? I wonder if you have seen the Roman Polanksi movie The Ghostwriter, or read the novel The Ghost by Robert Harris that it is based on.
The premise of the film and novel is that the central character is hired to ‘ghost’ the autobiography of a past unpleasant and venal British prime minister (not unlike – though the author unconvincingly denied it – Tony Blair). By ghost we mean, of course, that a professional writer interviews his or her subjects and then crafts their words into a book so that their name (not the ghostwriter’s) appears on the books covers. If you haven’t seen the film, here is the trailer for it. React. Words and phrases: frequency, genres, collocates, concordances, synonyms, and WordNet. English Radio with Zack & Abi - Phrasal Verbs #1 (Grow up) by Destination English. Www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/lesson_images/lesson17/RWTa27-1.PDF. Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, and Internet Research. ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us.
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Introduction One way of describing a person or thing is by saying that they have more of a particular quality than someone or something else. To do this, we use comparative adjectives, which are formed either by adding -er at the end of the adjective, or placing more before it, e.g. News, tips, ideas, and opinions for English teachers and English students. 50 000+ Free ESL, EFL worksheets made by teachers for teachers. English as a Second Language (ESL) Lesson plans & ideas for teachers: eslflow index & home page. English Listening Lessons. Teacher Resources. An ELT Notebook. TEACH-LEARN-LEAD - CURATE. Free technology teacher training videos for teachers.