Cómo pixelar u ocultar partes de una imagen sin instalar nada, desde la web En muchas ocasiones recibimos una fotografía que debemos publicar en Internet, pero antes de hacerlo es necesario ocultar rostros de personas, matrículas de coches, números de casas y otras informaciones que pueden violar la privacidad de otras personas. Para hacerlo basta con usar un editor de imágenes tradicional, pero hay soluciones más rápidas que pueden utilizarse sin necesidad de instalar nada en el ordenador. Hoy hablaremos de una de ellas. Se trata de Redacted, una aplicación web gratuita que no necesita registro y en la que solo tenemos que subir la imagen y ocultar la zona deseada. Es posible elegir entre tres tipos de máscara: pixelado, difuminado y tarjeta negra, siendo posible definir diferentes niveles de potencia para los dos primeros. La opción de pixelado es la más usada en este tema. También podemos elegir entre dos formas diferentes: rectangular o circular, adaptándose mejor a la forma que deseamos ocultar dentro de la fotografía.
Teaching English: Icebreaker Activities It is important for your students to feel comfortable in class because they will be able to learn much better when they are relaxed and focused. When you are working with a new group, it is a good idea to take some time to get to know each other. Also, if you have been working very hard with your students and you need a little break, you can use these enjoyable icebreaker activities to relieve some of the pressure! They are fun and easy, and you and your students will feel more comfortable working together after doing them! Click Here for Step-by-Step Rules, Stories and Exercises to Practice All English Tenses Try these fun activities to break the ice with a new student or group of students. Your students are sure to enjoy them, and they will be fun for you, too! 1. This is a fun activity for students to share some information about themselves and be creative at the same time. Give a worksheet to each of your students with the beginnings of some sentences on them. 2. For example: 3. 4.
Koprowski - Ten Good Games for Recycling Vocabulary The Internet TESL Journal Mark Koprowskimarkkoprowski [at] yahoo.com Introduction Learning is remembering. If we respect this axiom, the review and recycling of new language items will be critical if they stand a chance of becoming readily accessible in long-term memory. In fact, students do the majority of their forgetting shortly after the lesson and then the rate of forgetting diminishes. To avoid this lexical vanishing act, one solution offered is to follow the 'principle of expanding rehearsal'. Experts these days concur that learners actually need as many as 5 to 16 'meetings' with a new language item in a variety of contexts before it can be truly learned and activated for genuine use. 1. Divide the class into Teams A and B. Variation: To ensure a slightly quieter and less chaotic game, the teams can take it in turns. 2. Put the students into pairs or small groups. Variation: To add a spelling accuracy component, teams can also earn an extra point for each correctly spelt item. 3.
I’m Going Back I’m a big fan of All at C, probably the first blog with high quality teaching resources that I started following. Their superb lessons based on the John Lewis ad of the year are a classic in my classroom, so when I watched Heathrow’s Christmas advert a few days ago the first thing I did was to check their site. Call it premature seasonal impatience, but I also couldn’t help but start sketching my own activity as I look forward to further inspiration. Heathrow’s ad is about an ageing teddy bear couple, Mr. and Mrs. Bair, who arrive at the airport and start their journey through it before reuniting with their family. I’m Going Back.pdf Watch the beginning of the video first until 0:12 and do the first three scenes with the students in order to introduce the characters and the context, and for the students to get familiar with the procedure. Finally, the students make predictions about the end of the video orally and then watch it. Images from openclipart.org, Public Domain. Like this:
I, she, you – Jason Anderson | Teacher, teacher educator and author Here’s an idea for making speaking activities last 3 TIMES as long! I call it ‘I, she, you’ because it practices 1st, 3rd and 2nd person singular verb forms, in that order. It works especially well in secondary classrooms with teenage students who are a little reluctant to speak. Stage 1: Identify your personalisation questions The key ingredient you need is a set of ‘personalisation questions’. What is your name? And here’s a set of more complex personalisation questions that would challenge students right up to C1 level: What is your definition of happiness? There are 2 great things about personalisation questions. Stage 2: Prepare the students to remember Normally, when many students ask and answer personalisation questions, they take turns to talk without actually listening to their partner. Stage 3: ‘I’ Distribute the personalisation questions on a handout, or write them on the board. Stage 4: ‘She’ Now, put the students into new pairs, so that they’re talking to someone new. Job done!
Teens and reading skills The Reading skills section on LearnEnglish Teens helps teenagers to improve their reading skills for their school studies and English exams. There are activities for a range of levels from A1 to C1. Find out more about CEF levels here: Here are some activities you can use with students before, while and after reading a text. Before readingThere are lots of activities you can do before students read a text to help enhance their comprehension, such as ones that activate the students’ schemata or background knowledge, arouse their interest in the topic or prepare them linguistically. 1. Before Ss read a text, choose four topics that relate to the text that would be useful for Ss to think about before reading. Take a large piece of paper and divide it into four triangles by drawing diagonal lines from opposite corners. Four students sit around the piece of paper and are given a time limit e.g. one minute. 2. 3. 4. 5. 1. 2. 1. 2. 1. 2. 3.
Locals hang coats on Dublin bridge for needy homeless DUBLINERS have been asked to hang their unwanted winter coats on Ha'penny Bridge for the homeless to help themselves to. Signs along the walkway say: "If you need one, please take one. If you want to help, please hang one up." Photographs have emerged online of dozens of coats and jackets - of all shapes and sizes - hung to the railing of the bridge in the city centre. Also pictured was a plastic box filled with wooly hats, gloves and scarves. The initiative is driven by a Facebook page called Warm for Winter, who aim to help the homeless during the cold winter months. Their aim is to hang clothing up in suitable dry places around Irish towns and cities, in locations where they know people in need frequently walk by. News of the move emerged on the same day hundreds of people lined the streets of the Irish capital to protest the nations' growing homelessness crisis. Patrick Fryers, who started the Warm For Winter campaign, says he hopes it'll spread to other locations. What a lovely idea!
BACK TO SCHOOL! | ELT-CATION It’s the most wonderful time of the year, with the kids back to schooling and teachers so dear, it’s the happiest season of all. Here are my favourite activities (this year 9+1, and a couple of new activities to try shared by other bloggers) to kick off the new academic year and transition back into the school environment and learning. What’s your favourite activity? Looking for more alternative back-to-school activities? I, She, You by Jason Anderson 50-50 – a great adaptable PowerPoint quiz from Tekhnologic More ice breakers for the ELT classroom by Rachael Roberts Activities for first lessons by Clare Lavery at teachingenglish.org.uk Alternatives to “What I did on my Summer Vacation” by Tara Benwell Back to School Ideas! Happy New Academic Year! Like this: Like Loading...
Questions Classroom activities to teach narrative tenses Are you looking for new grammar games for the classroom? Multiple winner of the TeachingEnglish blog award Mike Astbury shares some resources to download, print, and use in your class. What are narrative tenses? Narrative tenses are verb tenses that are used to talk about the past. The following are examples of narrative tenses: Past simple: 'We left for the airport on an exceptionally sunny day.' Past continuous: 'The sun was shining and it was really hot by midday.' Past perfect: 'It had been sunny on and off for the previous fortnight.' Past perfect continuous: 'We had been waiting at the airport for what seemed like an eternity.' Activities to practise narrative tenses The following games are designed to help students practise narrative tenses and don’t require teacher supervision. The games use 16 cards, which tell a short story when combined together. You can download a PDF template of all the cards, game boards and blank templates needed for all the games, and print them. A. B. C. D.