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A creative writing activity: A dark and stormy night

A creative writing activity: A dark and stormy night
Submitted 48 years 7 months ago by admin. This is an idea I learned when I first started teaching and still use to this day. The main focus of the activity is on developing writing skills, but it's also good for developing listening and reading skills and also for practising past tenses and descriptive vocabulary. The activity should work at most levels above elementary, as long as your students have some knowledge of past tenses, but it works best when they also know past continuous / progressive too. The listening part comes first: Ask the students to draw the face of a person in the top right-hand corner of the page. In this way they build up a character profile for the person they are going to write about. The writing part: Now dictate the following sentence to your students: 'It was a dark and stormy night and'. Follow up: Once all the stories are complete there are a number of follow-up options you can try. Nik Peachey, Teacher, Trainer, Materials writer, British Council Related:  New Digital Stuff

Writing: mini things Submitted 6 years 2 months ago by Katherine Bilsb.... This lesson plan for teachers of older teenage and adult students level B1 is about writing. Students will develop editing and accuracy. Introduction Sometimes when we ask students to write a composition they spend very little time at the important editing stage. Topic Mini sagas Level Lower intermediate B1 Time 60 mins Aims: To help students learn how to edit their writingTo help students understand that ‘quality’ is more important than ‘quantity’ when it comes to writingTo develop students’ writing skills Materials Lesson plan: download Worksheets: download By Katherine Bilsborough The plans and worksheets are downloadable and in pdf format - right click on the attachment and save it on your computer. Copyright - please read All the materials on these pages are free for you to download and copy for educational use only.

Traffic Stop | StoryCorps Traffic Stop Alex Landau, an African American man, was raised by his adoptive white parents to believe that skin color didn’t matter. When Alex was pulled over by Denver police officers one night in 2009, he lost his belief in a color-blind world—and nearly lost his life. Alex tells his mother, Patsy Hathaway, what happened that night and how it affects him to this day. In 2011, Alex was awarded a $795,000 settlement from the City of Denver. Two of the officers involved have since been fired from the Denver Police Department for other incidents. Click here to listen to their StoryCorps interview. Para subtítulos en español, haga click en el ícono de YouTube en la esquina derecha, y escoja “Spanish” bajo la opción de “settings” y “subtitles/CC.” Credits Directed By Gina Kamentsky & Julie Zammarchi Art Direction Producers Rachel Hartman & Roxana Petzold Animation Funding Provided By More Information Audio Produced By Jud Esty-Kendall Original Music Joshua Abrams Publisher Lospotreros In Partnership with

Machine Stories Writing Activities I've invented (or borrowed) a few extraordinary machines and put them into your child(ren)'s hands. What happens when they use them? Again, either your child(ren) can write the stories on their own or, together, you can create the tales. This machine lets you travel in time. How far into the past or the future do you go? This machine lets you travel in space. Where do you go? This machine lets you go anywhere at any time. Where and when did you go? © 1999 Stuart B Baum Point this machine at any animal or thing. At what did you point the machine? This machine gives you one superpower. What did you choose? Send me your solution to this writing activity (solution form). Entries we like will receive a StuartStories pen.The younger the writer, the more likely we’ll send out a pen. Of course, it's completely subjective and everyone wins just by playing.

multiple uses of newspapers & magazines for ELT | TeachingEnglishNotes Newspaper fire orange (Photo credit: NS Newsflash) I love using real things for teaching English. By “real things” I mean something from real life – and not something specially developed for learning or teaching. That’s why I prefer usual movies (and not educational ones – they are hardly very exiting, most of the times, usual radio and not “special English” stations, and usual newspapers (not the ones for ESL learners). Talking about the newspapers, their use in class (and outside too) is limitless. Newspapers can be used for: jigsaw reading (in a group, assign each student a small extract, then ask them to report on their part and put all the parts into the right order/ for one-to-one putting the parts into the right order would also work greatly) reading-and–retelling-and-discussing (very close to real life – when you read a newspaper in your language, you would often discuss what you’ve read with your friends or colleagues) Like this: Like Loading...

Six Word Stories Innovative Online Learning Tools to Use in 2015 | Articles | Noodle Want to be a better student? There are literally thousands of apps for that. Not to mention a wide array of other online learning tools. They’re not all changing education — but a few innovative ones are. Noodle’s team of education experts investigated the vast array of online learning tools to create this list of the 32 best, most innovative online tools that we think will change the education space in 2015. We spoke with teachers, tutors, and leaders in the space. We have grouped these 32 selections based on how they are making a difference in student education. Without further ado, here are the tools that you’ll want to have on your computer, tablet, or smartphone this year... Classroom Connectors Clever What it is: Clever streamlines the process of logging into educational apps by letting students log into all of their tools with a single set of credentials (instead of dozens). Why it’s good: Clever saves time in the classroom. Edmodo Who would love it: Teachers, students, and parents.

What happened to my Plan and the Add to plan button? We’ve renamed “Add to Plan” and the “Planned” list on your mobile app – it’s now called Question Queue. Your Question Queue works just like your planned list on mobile. You can now see and manage what’s in the Queue for each class from the Library tab on the Plickers website. When I add questions to my Queue, they normally go to the top – where do they go now? Questions added to your Queue now go to the bottom of the Queue. Where are my archived questions? The new Archive folder contains all your archived questions. Which folder do the questions I create in the Plickers mobile app go into? When you create questions in the Plickers mobile app, they automatically go into your Mobile Uploads folder.

Laterale, Ja-Nein-Rätsel, Misteries, Mini-Mysteries Laterale, auch Mini-Misteries oder Ja-Nein-Rätsel genannt, sind sehr kurze mysteriöse Geschichten, die scheinbar gar nicht sein können, oder zumindest keinen Sinn machen. Trotzdem gibt es eine logische Erklärung, die es zu finden gilt. Am meisten Spaß macht das Raten in einer Gruppe mit mehreren Leuten. Der Spielleiter stellt das Rätsel und die Teilnehmer dürfen Fragen stellen, die er mit "Ja" oder "Nein" beantwortet, bis jemand die Lösung findet. Bei den folgenden Rätseln kann nan aber eventuell auch ohne weitere Fragen draufkommen. 1. Ein Einbrecher war in einem Gebäude. 2. Ein Bauer war gerade auf seinem Feld, als ein Pferd auf ihn zukam. 3. Ein Mann schaute aus dem Fenster und beobachtete eine hübsche Frau, die gerade an seinem Haus vorbei ging. 4. Über 20 Musiker eines Orchesters spielen gemeinsam vor Publikum, aber niemand hört zu. 5. Ein Mann kommt nach einer längeren Sauftour aus der Kneipe und geht nach Hause. 6. Fritz kaufte sich einen Spielfilm auf DVD. 7. 8.

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