Reading house This lesson focuses on describing houses, and what our houses can say about us. Students will review vocabulary to describe different types of houses and their features, read about unusual housing types, speak about housing in their own country and take part in a discussion about young people leaving home. Aims: • To learn and practise vocabulary for describing houses. • To develop reading skills • To practise speaking and discussion skills. Age group: 12- adult Level: B1 / B2 Time: 60 –90 minutes Materials: Reading house student worksheet Copyright – Please read All the materials on these pages are free and available for you to download and copy for educational use only. Rules For Writing Blog Articles by Ken Wilson I promised Burcu that I would write something about writing a blog, and try to establish some rules of good blogging. Now I’m worried – ARE there any rules of good blogging? Or is writing about writing a bit like telling jokes about why jokes are funny? Doomed to failure. I’ll try to find some rules and we’ll see what happens. The above sentence gives us our first useful rule. Or even a phrase. You may think that this is a silly rule, but I think it’s important. So, Rule 1 of writing a blog article – Don’t write dense texts. And here are two more: Rule 2 – Personalise. Rule 3 – Don’t be obsessed with yourself. At first sight, rules 2 and 3 seem to be contradictory. A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog about working as a teacher trainer in London in the 1970s. Here are three ways that I could have started the article. I could have started it like this: Back in the 1970s, I was a teacher trainer at International House in London. Here’s the third way. Here’s an example: And she sat down.
Step 8: Cools tools to embed Welcome to the seventh step in our free professional learning series on class and student blogging! The aim of this step is to introduce you to a range of easy to use online tools that you can embed into posts and pages. We’ve embedded examples of each tool in this post to help you work out how the tool could be used with your students. Back to Top Why enhance posts with interactive tools If you look closely at class blogs you’ll notice many of have cool interactive tools embedded in posts and pages. There’s a gazillion online tools nowadays and most of them provide code that you can use to embed what you’ve found or created into your posts or pages. Below are popular tools used by educators by activity type to help get you started. Tools were chosen on the basis of their popularity, easy of use and being able to be embedded into posts/pages.Back to Top Audio Hosting Websites AudioBoo AudioBoo is a website, and a smartphone and tablet app, which allows users to post and share sound files. Voki
British Council | Homes of the Future Good morning. Today I'll be experiencing a taste of the future. From the latest in home design to incredible gadgets, I’ll be looking at how we could be living in the future. A hot shower is a great start to the day, but this is no ordinary shower. I’m surrounded by some of the most modern houses in the world. Some of these houses can evolve as people’s lives change. Peter White is the Marketing Manager of the Innovation Park, where the houses are built. Amandeep: Peter, are these houses really a glimpse of the future? Peter White: They are. Amandeep: Just how much do they vary from ordinary houses? Peter White: In some ways they’re very similar. You may have seen the next invention in the movies, and it could mean no more lost keys in the future. Now this control panel is the brain of the house. Now, can you guess what this is? I asked some people who are interested in house design what they would like to see in the house of the future. Woman 1: I would love a self-cleaning house.
10 Quick Wins When Students Start Blogging | #30DBB - Day 27 This is day 27 of "The Thirty Day Blog Binge." Learn more Anytime our students do something with tech, the logistics of the thing are going to make it run a bit slow at first: logging in, navigating around and submitting work all take a bit of time to get comfortable with. When students start blogging, those same slow-downs happen. With that in mind, here are 10 ideas for short, creative posts when your students first start to blog. The "One Sentence Project"This idea comes from Larry Ferlazzo by way of Daniel Pink.
Så här dukar jag fram Canvor Terminen är snart slut. Jag sorterar och gör bokslut. Så även i mitt klassrum. Jag har två ämnen jag undervisar i men med samma förmågor. Bubblorna här under kan du skriva ut här om du vill använda dem. Om någon har en tydlig struktur för ämnet får ni gärna dela dem. Skrivprocessen Texttyper Berättande texter Gestalta Bildspråk Adjektiv Fakta texter Sambandsord/linking words & phrases Att vidga resonemanget Skrivstruktur som jag och Mia Smith gjort Läsförsåelsestrategier av Mia Smith Textkopplingar State your opinion Några knep för att resonera/diskutera Tankemodell för att vidga perspektivet Förmågor och kunskapskrav Har även haft denna i engelska Strategier för ord Strategier och att våga av Malin Larsson Strategier av Anna Lundblad (delade i eng 6-9) Under information delar jag sådant som är aktuellt, min mail och elevbloggen. Sedan finns så klart ljudnivåkorten på tavlan för att reglera arbetsron i klassrummet. Så här såg väggen ut innan jag delade upp den per förmåga.
ESL Games for the Classroom Alphabet Shout Out Randomly choose an alphabet flashcard and award a point to the first student who shouts out a word beginning with that letter. Alphabet Writing Relay Divide and line up the students into two teams. Divide the board into two halves and have one student from each team run to the board, write 'A', then run to the back of the line. Alphabet Erase relay As 'Alphabet Writing Relay', but this time, write the alphabet on each half of the board and have each team race to erase the letters in order. Alphabet Sculptures Divide the students into teams and call out a letter of the alphabet. Alphabet Soup Give each student an alphabet flashcard and have them skip around the room to the 'ABC Song'. Alphabet Touch Call out letters and have the students find and touch them in the classroom, on posters, etc. Alphabet Wave Give each student a few ordered alphabet flashcards and play the 'ABC Song'. Animal Crackers Take a big dice and assign an animal to each number.
Why Nat Geo Launched the Open Explorer Project There has never been a better time to be a curious person. Science has pushed our collective understanding further than we thought possible, but even as science races ahead, there's a persistent hindrance to our progress: access. For too many, taking part in the scientific process is seen as a distant and daunting endeavor. Even the term "exploration" can seem dusty, dated, and decidedly inaccessible. If asked to name a contemporary explorer, most people would be stumped. Few are aware that 95 percent of the ocean is unexplored, that thousands of rivers remain unknown to science, and that research is uncovering new species constantly. It doesn't have to be that way. It's time to reclaim the word “exploration” and redefine it to encompass the incredible work of present-day researchers, students, and citizen scientists. There's a hard line around good science—peer reviewed, hypothesis-driven, well-documented. Open Explorer is for the curious, the makers, and the doers.
Planning Page ⋆ Posts, Themes WebEnglish.se hopes to make every teacher’s life easier by presenting term plan examples and templates to use together with your students and/or colleagues to plan an enjoyable school year. WebEnglish.se suggests your plan be filled with themes, books, films and whatever else the class might come up with. Just follow these seven steps: 1. WebEnglish.se Spring Term Themes:Year 3, Year 4,Year 5, Year 6,Year 7, Year 8,Year 9 2. 3. Download Term Plan Templates:Term Plan Template by weekTerm Plan Template 2 per weekTerm Plan Template 3 per week The templates are adaptable for all levels A Term Plan Example 5-8, 3 lessons per week 4. 5. 6. 7. Suggestion: Show an empty plan to your students and fill in together or show an example plan and let them choose the themes, films, test dates, calendar topics etc.
ESL Kids Classroom Games & Activities Action Race: This is a fun game using actions. Use actions like jump, hop, clap, run etc. Have the Ss split into two teams and sit in lines with a chair by each team and one chair at the other end of the room. Adverb Action: T writes on the board an activity like "brush your teeth." Airplane competition: First, have your Ss make some paper airplanes. Apple Pass: Have all Ss sit in a circle. Art Gallery: This is a great activity for reviewing vocab. Attention: Call out commands such as: Attention, salute, march in place...stop, sit down, stand up, walk in a circle, clap your hands...stop, run in place...stop, jumping jacks...stop, swim in place....stop, etc. Backs to the Board Game: This one is good for higher level kids. Badminton: Good for reviewing target vocabulary (words or communicative expressions). Banana Race: Children just love this! Bang! Basketball: Ss take a shot at the trash can/box/etc. Bingo: Can be played with numbers, letters, pictures or even words. Get Dressed! 1.
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