Creating visual content for my classes with two awesome free online tools Let’s go visual! If you have been following my blog for a while you probably know how much I like exploring new tools to spice up my lessons. We all know students prefer looking at a screen than at a book so, for this lesson I have decided to explore two new free online tools, which have a lot of potential for language teaching. Perhaps you have never considered creating your own content because you think you aren’t tech-savvy and you don’t really know how to go about these modern things, but I can assure you that creating these two videos has been as easy as falling off a log. In class, we are studying how to express preference with the structure would rather and (would)pefer and this is just the perfect excuse to “play” with these two little tools. 1. Login for free.Click “create a new video”.Choose your scenes one by one and enter the text. (presentation created with biteable) 2. (presentation created with emaze) Give them a go!
Learn English Through Movies Teaching With YouTube: 197 Digital Channels For Learning Teaching With YouTube: 197 Digital Channels For Learning If you don’t have a YouTube channel as an education provider, there’s a good chance you’re behind the times. Nearly every major educational institution in the world now hosts its own collection of videos featuring news, lectures, tutorials, and open courseware. Just as many individuals have their own channel, curating their expertise in a series of broadcasted lessons. These channels allow instructors to share information and blend media in unprecedented and exciting new ways. Here are the top channels worth following based on views, subscriptions, and quality of content: General YouTube EDU: Launched in 2009, Youtube EDU centralizes content from over 100 universities and colleges, providing access to lectures, research, and campus tours. Physical Sciences Engineering & Technology Mathematics Mr. Politics, History, and Current Events The Arts Learning a Foreign Language University Channels
10 Intense Movies That Will Keep You Glued to the Screen There are movies that draw you in so completely that you sink into them until the very end, and even after that you think of what you’ve seen for a long time. This list is about such movies. Bright Side hopes you have a good time watching them! Starring: Ulrich Müe, Sebastian Koch, Martina Gedeck Popular writer and playwright Georg Dreyman would have spent his whole life in fame and without troubles if not for his love affair with a famous actress. Starring: Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Olwen Fouere A retired and bored rock singer sets out to find a former Nazi war criminal hiding in the USA who is the man responsible for the humiliation of his recently deceased father. Starring: Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, Jürgen Prochnow Zev’s life is closing in on the end. Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Mélanie Laurent, Sarah Gadon Adam rents a movie and is surprised to see his exact lookalike in one of its episodes. Starring: Kevin Bacon, Colin Firth, Alison Lohman
Video | Teaching Ideas Join our email newsletter to receive free updates! Close Search for Ideas and Resources Filter Results Menu Video Filter by age Filter by subject (Select all / Select none) Filter by type Filter by theme The Lego Story Share this fantastic animated film about the history of the LEGO group and try some of our suggested teaching ideas and classroom activities! View Wire Cutters A chance encounter proves fateful for two robots mining on a desolate planet. View Alike In a busy life, Copi is a father who tries to teach the right way to his son, Paste. View Playmate Use this short film to explore relationships and growing up. View Verbstaubt (Dusty) Explore our teaching ideas linked to this funny video about a clumsy vacuum cleaner. View The Small Shoemaker Explore our teaching ideas linked to this short film, telling the story of what happens when a street vendor sets up opposite a shoemaker's shop. View Mouse for Sale Use our teaching ideas with this fantastic video about a lonely mouse. View Monsterbox View View View Tom
Holes Lesson Plans for Teachers The Holes lesson plan contains a variety of teaching materials that cater to all learning styles. Inside you'll find 30 Daily Lessons, 20 Fun Activities, 180 Multiple Choice Questions, 60 Short Essay Questions, 20 Essay Questions, Quizzes/Homework Assignments, Tests, and more. The lessons and activities will help students gain an intimate understanding of the text; while the tests and quizzes will help you evaluate how well the students have grasped the material. View a free sample. Length of Lesson Plan: Approximately 131 pages. Page count is estimated at 300 words per page. Full Lesson Plan Overview Completely Customizable! The Holes lesson plan is downloadable in PDF and Word. Lesson Plan Calendars The Lesson Plan Calendars provide daily suggestions about what to teach. Chapter Abstracts Chapter abstracts are short descriptions of events that occur in each chapter of Holes . Character and Object Descriptions Multiple Choice Questions Short Essay Questions Essay Questions/Writing Assignments
“Q” Note : All Viralelt posts share the same structure. Teacher’s notes appear only on How to use Viralelt. This is done to keep “teacher text” to a minimum and avoid repetition. What typical “queue behaviour” is shown in the video? When there are two or more queues how do you decide which one to join? Which three of the above questions are being discussed? Download “Question time” and the “Sitting comfortably?” Like this: Like Loading... 'Holes' Lesson Plans 7 Creative Classroom ActivitiesThese activities include studying historical background, work with palindromes, making a timeline, working with cause and effect, more. Teacher Guide to Holes by Louis SacharHow might students use storyboards to demonstrate and to extend their learning? Check the resources here. Includes plot diagram and summary, essential questions, character maps, symbols, motifs and images, conflict analysis, vocabulary, more. Note: Storyboard That helps sponsor this site. The Backwards Poem AssignmentAfter listening to excerpts from Holes, students will discuss ways that author Louis Sachar uses irony, antonyms and vivid vocabulary to develop his story. Explore Writing with Louis SacharStudents make connections between the author's life and his work. HolesA variety of reading strategies and postreading activities, including an anticipation guide, a guided imagery activity, and a timeline. HolesA variety of post-reading activities.
A Pale Blue Dot: The Ultimate Earth "selfie..." There is a bit more to the Pale Blue Dot that can be heard from Carl Sagan himself at this Library of Congress link. Take few moments it is worth listening to Sagan describe what he suggested to NASA as Voyager I was leaving the solar system and why he thought it was so important to take this photo. Now, read the words of his essay here. Go back to the THINK section and answer the remaining questions.There are several different versions of the Pale Blue Dot. Goodnight Mister Tom: A book review Michelle Magorian’s novel Goodnight Mister Tom is a moving tale of an eight-year-old boy, William Beech who is evacuated from London’s Deptford area to go and live in a village called Little Weirwold shortly before the Second World War breaks out. With an abusive history, a weak, pale William arrives in Little Weirwold and is placed under the care of Tom Oakley, a healthy, middle-aged man famous in his close-knit village for being a recluse, just because he lives next to the local church in accordance to the specific instructions of William’s mother. Tom reluctantly agrees to take him in, in the name of ‘national duty’, neither of them considering how this small act of ‘national duty’ was going to change their lives forever. And thus began a journey of recovery and rediscovery for the two of them. This journey makes up the crux of the novel. But Tom finds it impossible to fathom how a parent could convince their child that s/he was inherently bad and punish them for it.
Thunder Road by Jim Cummings | Comedy Short Film The toast of this year’s American festival circuit, Thunder Road triumphantly debuts online today after winning awards at Sundance, SXSW, Los Angeles, and Palm Springs, including the coveted Jury Prize at both Sundance and LA. It’s hard to get stronger festival validation than what Thunder Road has received, and SotW will not present a contrarian position—the film is fantastic, and we’re happy to pile on when it comes to the praise (indeed, I already made my esteem clear as a jury member at SXSW this year). The plot description is simple: taking place at his mother’s funeral, Officer Arnaud goes up to give his eulogy, but, being a simple and plain-spoken man, he decides he needs a little help from a boombox and his friend, Bruce Springsteen. The appeal of the film is its winning combination of excellent craft with emotional storytelling. Having seen it a few times now, my impression continues to shift between whether I’m more impressed or entertained by it.