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. Utiliser le blog comme un outil pédagogique Mise à jour janvier 2015 1. Qu’est-ce qu’un blog ? Contraction des termes anglais web et log (désignant les journaux de bord de la marine et de l’aviation américaine). Le weblog (couramment raccourci en « blog ») est un site web particulier, sur lequel une ou plusieurs personnes s’expriment, sous forme « de billets » ou « d’articles » datés que les visiteurs peuvent commenter.Il permet d’éditer et de publier des documents multimédia (images, textes, fichiers vidéo et audio) grâce à un outil de publication.L’usage d’un blog s’inscrit dans les directives de l’éducation nationale puisqu’il permet d’enseigner en mettant en œuvre les compétences du B2i. Haut de page 2. Inventaire non exhaustif des fonctions blog intéressantes dans un cadre d’usage pédagogique : 3. Les caractéristiques du blog permettent de mettre en œuvre des objectifs pédagogiques : Haut de page 4. Les exploitations pédagogiques d’un blog sont nombreuses : 5. Il est interdit notamment (la liste n’est pas limitative) : 5.1. 6.
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.
7 Blogging Platforms for Teachers Compared and Ranked Last week I published an updated version of one my popular ed tech tools comparison charts. That chart was about creating multimedia quizzes. This afternoon I updated my chart of seven blogging tools for teachers. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 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.
Make up to £80 an hour as a private tutor SellTextbooks/Flickr Being a private tutor can be very lucrative. If you’re a graduate, particularly with knowledge of maths or sciences, you can make a lot of money tutoring GCSE students or those trying to get into university. An Ipsos MORI survey found that nationwide 22% of 11 to 16-year-olds have received private tuition, whilst in London the figure is as high as 43%. How does it work? Tutors are usually employed on a short-term basis, to help kids make it through the weeks leading up to their exams and get them properly prepared. What qualifications do you need? Obviously you have to have some knowledge – but you don’t necessarily have to be a qualified teacher. You’ll need to be patient, an enthusiastic communicator and good with teenagers (remember they can be a difficult age group). This is a big part of being a private tutor – if children believe that they can work out that maths formula and have confidence in their abilities they’ll be much less nervous about the exams.
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.
A history of the world in funny puns - Comedy We Put Things in "Apple Pie Order" Now, the VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories. Today we tell about the expression “apple pie order.” It means “in perfect order, very well organized.” Nobody is sure where and when the expression “apple pie order” began. Another old expression describes the opposite condition -- wild disorder. It was not an easy decision to make. At one time, the tomato was called a love apple. In the sixteenth century, Spain imported the tomato from South America after Spanish explorers had landed there. When French growers imported it from Italy, they thought “di Moro” meant “d’amour” -- the French word for love. People believe many things about the apple. Another belief is based on fact. You have been listening to the VOA Special English program Words and Their Stories. I’m Warren Scheer. Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified Discord as a Greek god; she was a goddess.
'As American as Apple Pie' Why is apple pie so American? (USDA photo by Scott Bauer) Welcome back to Words and Their Stories from VOA Learning English! Each week we explore the roots and meaning of common American expressions. Today let's talk about apples. The saying “as American as apple pie” describes things that represent the best of American culture. But why use apple pie? A lot of stories and even a few poems have been written about Johnny Appleseed over the years. Yet Johnny Appleseed was a real person. An illustration in The Saturday Evening Post showing American folk hero Johnny Appleseed. John Chapman was born in Massachusetts in 1774 during the Revolutionary War against Britain. The young Chapman took his father's lessons to heart. For 40 years, it is said that Johnny Appleseed cleared land and planted apple seeds in the Midwestern states of the U.S. Apples were an important food for the early American settlers. Perhaps the story of Johnny Appleseed has made apples and apple pie so very American. I know.
I slept like a log. (Sleep idioms) – About Words – Cambridge Dictionaries Online blog by Kate Woodford This week, we’re looking at the surprising number of idioms in English that relate to sleep and rest. Try to stay awake till the end! Starting with the morning, if you say that someone is in the land of the living, you mean that they are awake. This is a humorous phrase, sometimes used of someone who has finally woken up after a lie-in (= a time when they have stayed in bed in the morning later than usual): I was hoping to speak to Klara. Later in the day, after a period of work, someone may decide to put their feet up, (= to sit down and relax, sometimes with their feet raised off the ground): It’s been a long day. In the evening, someone who is about to go to bed may use the informal phrases hit the sack/the hay. They may also announce that they are turning in for the evening/night: I’m quite tired. A number of idioms relate to the quality of sleep and how deeply we sleep. It looks like Tom’s out for the count. By the time I came to bed, you were dead to the world.