Easy Reading for ESL Beginners It was Easter Sunday. Mom gave a little basket to Michelle. Mom told her to look for Easter eggs. The Easter eggs were in the back yard. "What do Easter eggs look like?" Michelle asked. 10 Word Cloud Generators You Have Probably Never Tried A few days back, we looked at five great ways to incorporate word cloud generators into your classroom. There are obviously many more uses out there for them – but that is a discussion for another post. We’ve mentioned most of these before – in a post from way back when – so I won’t go into too much detail about each individual one, but we’ve added a few notable ones to the list. (Of note, the list is in no particular order). The vast majority of them work the same: plug your text into the box, select a few options, and you’ve got yourself a word cloud.
How do you say…? Hi! I work in a Swedish preschool and lately we have come up with this idea: our kids speak different languages at home and often they like to talk about it with their friends. That’s why we have thought about these language cards, where you can read the word, identify the language (either by reading it or by looking at the flag), and scan the code in order to hear it or see the video showing how to sign. So far we have collected sound files of the word friend in Swedish, English, Spanish, Icelandic, Persian, Japanese, Finish, Dutch, Arabic, Swedish Braille and Swedish sign language. These are the languages that are relevant in our school at the moment, but soon there will be more languages and maybe even more words! If you want to free-download the whole document, click on the following link how-do-you-say
Listen to English around the World. Click on any of the flags below to hear accents from some of the main English-speaking countries. Hear more English accents. One of the best ways of improving your English is to listen to radio news and discussion in English on your computer. Tagkedo -WordCloud creator Processing ... Personal $ Svg $20 ✓ School Start 1-6 ⋆ WebEnglish.se Related Page: My Book About Me Warm-up Welcome Back to School! – Animated Digital Card Funny starter welcoming you back to school (yr 1-4)Kid Snippets: “Back to School” Adults act to child voices. Funny if the students know the body parts (yr 3-5)Back to School – The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (PARODY) A song to start the term with (yr 4-6) Songs and Rhymes
5 Great YouTube Channels for Teachers We are kicking off the month’s series of techy posts with this great one by a guest blogger who writes about YouTube channels you will want to have at your fingertips. Enjoy! ~EMP YouTube is a fantastic resource for educators and students alike. There are hundreds of thousands of videos that teach you just about anything you want to know. These 15 countries speak English as a second language best Nearly two billion people - that's almost one in three people - study English as a non-native language. In the developing world, English is less of a foreign language skill and more a tool synonymous with development, expanding a country's economy and increasing its connectedness to the rest of the world. And for small countries with few native-language speakers, it also makes sense to learn a little of the world's lingua franca for business and policy making. The English Proficiency Index has just released statistics on where English is learned around the world and quality of teaching to find the countries with the highest proficiency of English as a second language: