Games and social media Games and social media Games, videos and social networking are all great ways to improve your English. Find out what is available from Cambridge Assessment English. Quiz your English app Challenge your friends and players from around the world with our English language quiz. Exam level: Cambridge English: First, First for Schools and IELTS 4.0–6.5CEFR: B1–B2Skills practised: Vocabulary and grammar Play Quiz your English Cambridge English FC You are captain of Cambridge English FC football team. Exam level: Cambridge English: First, First for Schools and AdvancedCEFR: B2 – C1Skills practised: Vocabulary and grammar Play Cambridge English FC Shop & Drop Learning Game Keep your customers happy by making sure you put the right items into their box. Exam level: Young Learners (Starters, Movers, Flyers)CEFR level: pre-A1–A2Skills practised: reading and listening Play the Shop & Drop learning game Monkey Puzzles World Tour Play the game on our website or download the FREE app on the iOS App Store.
Så funkar det – Att vidga sina vyer i språkundervisningen Igår hade jag min första föreläsning och det var en väldigt rolig upplevelse som utmanade mig rejält. Jag hade skrivit manus och förberett mig väl så när det väl var dags kunde jag prata fritt. Men det var också en av sakerna som jag oroat mig för – tänk om jag får blackout. Eller tänk om tiden inte fylls! Jag ville med föreläsningen vara så konkret som möjligt och visa på insynen i mitt klassrum och hur vi arbetar med de projekt vi skapar. Jag hade plockat ut tre områden – BlackOutPoetry, Sommarprat och Banksy/Flash Fiction. Jag tipsade även om Pearltrees som jag glömde länka i summeringen så här kommer en länk till den pärla vi har i Engelska 6-9 samt den i Svenska 6-9. Jag hoppas vi ses i det utvidgade kollegiet och kan fortsätta att lära av varandra.
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The 8 Minutes That Matter Most I am an English teacher, so my ears perk up when writers talk about their process. I've found the advice handy for lesson planning, too. That's because both writing and planning deal with craft. In writing, you want your audience to be absorbed. You want them to care about your characters. You want them be delighted by the suspense. John Irving, the author of The Cider House Rules, begins with his last sentence: I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. That is the crux of lesson planning right there -- endings and beginnings. The eight minutes that matter most are the beginning and endings. Here are eight ways to make those eight minutes magical. Beginnings 1. YouTube reaches more 18- to 34-year-olds than any cable channel. 2. If you want to create a safe space for students to take risks, you won't get there with a pry bar. 3. Toss a football around the class before you teach the physics of a Peyton Manning spiral. 4. Endings 1. 2. 3. 4.
Crossword Puzzle Games - Create Puzzles Create A Crossword Puzzle Enter up to 20 words and hints (clues) below to create your own puzzles. There's no need to use all 20 words, you could use as little as two. This free online crossword creator software can be a great tool for educators. If your puzzle has too much blank space in it, try starting with 10-14 words. This is the first version of the crossword puzzle creator software. Samples made with this free online puzzle maker : Easter FunSt. A free cryptogram maker is also available to create even more of your own word puzzles. How to Engage Students in the First few Minutes I have a wonderful friend who is currently a student teacher. I absolutely love chatting to her about her experiences and questions, as she challenges me to reflect on my own practice: to re-evaluate my strategies; to work out what it is I do and why; to tweak what isn’t working. Her questions are always intelligent, thought-provoking and full of exciting curiosity – she is going to make an exceptional teacher. A few weeks ago she asked me how to get students to ‘come to the party’; how to entice them to engage and participate in the learning experience so that it wasn’t a one-sided affair. Yikes! This got me thinking and I came to an interesting realisation: In the first five minutes, I can tell how a lesson is going to be received. I set the scene for my lesson in those first five minutes. I realise this is no small feat, so here are 5 tips for breaking with routine and shaking things up at the start of the lesson: 1. It really is as simple as that: play with the layout of the room. 2.
Synonym Card Game There are 30 pairs of synonyms here (for a total of 60 cards) that can be used to play the games Fish and Memory. Students have to find the synonym card to the one that they have. The synonym pairs covered here are: large/big, tiny/small, noisy/loud, silent/quiet, quick/fast, sick/ill, leap/jump, push/shove, pull/tug, sprint/run, afraid/scared, spooky/scary, cold/chilly, home/house, rock/stone, garbage/trash, rug/carpet, kid/child, clever/smart, happy/glad, street/road, and throw/toss. You can use the game Fish or memory to practice this game. A: (Has the card for 'fast') Do you have quick? B: Yes, I do. If the answer was yes, B gives the card to A and A gets a point. As well, these two worksheets review the vocabulary covered in these cards and will be useful for playing the game: Synonyms Vocab Worksheet 1 Synonyms Vocab Worksheet 2
Med Skype lyfter vi taket på klassrummet Skype in the classroom är en väldigt bra tjänst för att ta göra din undervisning global. Du behöver skapa ett vanligt Skypekonto på skype.com och ett konto på Skype for education. Ditt Skypekonto använder du för att logga in på Skype for education. Det jag och mina elever började med är Mystery Skype. Det är en modern variant av det gamla hederliga spelet "20 frågor". På Skype for education-sidan anmäler du att du vill delta i Mystery Skype och kan också leta efter andra deltagare över hela världen. Om man känner sig osäker och aldrig provat kan man alltid börja med en skola i Sverige. Ett par saker behöver ni tänka på innan ni börjar: Du behöver en dator eller surfplatta med kamera och helst en projektor. En välförberedd Mystery Skypelektion tar ungefär 30 minuter att genomföra och brukar vara mycket uppskattat bland eleverna. Det man också kan göra är att registrera sig för olika Skypelektioner. Han var väldigt entusiastisk och talade en tydlig engelska. /Sara
Games Crossword GameJust like an old-fashioned word search! Using the mouse and the wordlist, find and highlight the hidden English words in the box! As the levels get harder, the words start appearing in different orientations. » Teaching English through songs in the digital age – #ELTchat summary 12/01/... This absolutely fantastic summary was contributed by Vicky Saumell on her blog in 4 consective posts which I have merged into one single post. As Viky herself remarks below in her post, it is an amazing collection of resources all shared by you, #ELTchatters! What a fantastic resource this has turned into! And thanks to Vicky for an outstanding job!!! 1. In case you didn´t know, I´m an avid tweeter, especially for Professional Development and networking with colleagues all over the world. Yesterday, #ELTchat was about Teaching English through songs: activities, resources and benefits of using songs for teaching. 13 readings and resources,68 ideas for using songs,50 example songs with links,11 music-related web 2.0 tools All this information, which I have tried to digest for easier consumption, is too long to be posted in one blog post so I have divided it into 4 parts: 1. Some readers´suggestions that are worth sharing 2. Why use songs? Possible tasks 3. Specific songs and their uses 4.
Spelling Bee What are the different ways to play the Visual Thesaurus Spelling Bee? There are two different ways to play. In the Tournament Spelling Bee, you'll be challenged by a series of words, with the spelling difficulty adapted to your skill level. You can also try a Community Spelling Bee generated from one of our subscribers' word lists. How does the Visual Thesaurus Spelling Bee work? Each turn, you'll hear the recording of the word and see its definition (with words suitably omitted that might give away the correct spelling). In the Tournament Spelling Bee, the more words you get right, the higher your score will go. If you play a Community Spelling Bee, the words from the selected word list are presented in random order. What happens if I misspell a word? If you spell a word incorrectly, you can keep guessing for as long as you like. What is the appropriate age level or grade level to play the Spelling Bee? How does the scoring work? How do I see how my score stacks up against other spellers?
BusyTeacher.org Students love being able to understand and read current news in English and there is something to interest everyone in a newspaper. The average reading age for most newspapers is approximately 11-13 years old, just perfect for those learning English as a foreign language. Newspapers are also a handy resource for English language teachers. If you are teaching in an English speaking country look out for the free press newspapers. If you are not in an English speaking country you could print articles from news websites such as the BBC or CNN. Here are a number of ways you can use a newspaper in your English language lessons. 1The role of newspapers in our livesTalk about the role of newspapers in daily life as a whole class, in pairs or in small groups.
Finding the game-like challenge!* *With minimal preparation involved… Following a recent Friday workshop on teaching teenagers, in which, amongst other things, we discussed the difference between playing games for the sake of playing games and adding a game-like challenge into the activities we do in class, I have been thinking about different ways we can do this, without spending heaps of extra time on preparation. Here are some of the ideas I’ve come up with: 1. Board it and collaborate Instead of (or as well as/before) having learners complete a table in their books, individually, why not put them in teams, put the table on the board and get them to race to complete the table accurately: Linking words with teenagers Here is an example from a teenager class of mine, looking at linking words in a writing lesson. 2. The age-old game of bingo can be used to liven up writing activities, as Sandy explains here or speaking activities, as I describe here. Bingo with L9 3. 60 seconds…starting now! 4. Kinaesthetic to the max! 5.