We Tell Stories - 'Fairy Tales' by Kevin Brooks

Argument essays, graphs, other writing, and speaking for IELTS, PET, and TOEFL 12 ways of creating stories with your EFL students I’ve been reading a fair amount recently about the value of storytelling – and, in particular, the telling of vivid and emotionally-engaging stories – to memory in general, and vocabulary-learning and grammar practice more specifically. It certainly seems that learning new words from a list is a duller and less efficient alternative to acquiring and retaining new vocabulary than involving your learners in narratives using the target words. With this in mind, here are four ways you can involve your learners in creating stories around particular lexical or grammatical themes, and a list (and brief descriptions!) of eight other methods from various corners of this site: Stories from boxesDraw eight rectangles on the board, with space between each one.Invite student volunteers to come and draw one thing, each in a different rectangle. Note: The two ideas above come from Creating Stories with Children by Andrew Wright. Stories from blank paper Show your students a blank sheet of paper.

Artistic Photo Gallery Of Star Trek And Star Wars Fans Dressed Up As Characters This is an artsy photo gallery by photographer Steve Schofield containing a ton of people dressed up as Star Wars and Star Trek characters. And, because it's Friday and I've already started drinking, I threw in a Ninja Turtle for good measure. Remember the sexy Comic-Con and Princess Leia galleries? Well this is the opposite of those. Hit the jump for the monster gallery. Steve Schofield's Website Thanks To Jenny, The Bloggess, for always kicking ass. 1000 Things to Write About BoomWriter | Read, Write, Compete... And Get Published! Frank Uyttenhove — хорошо быть молодым и талантливым - Фотограф Бельгийский фотограф мастерски владеет не только камерой, но и фотошопом — гордится этим фактом и не скрывает его. Многочисленные работы Frank Uyttenhove легли в основу нашумевших в Европе кампаний, например, принтов SN Brussels Airlines с парами детишек на отдыхе в различных странах. Снимал он постеры и для таких брендов как Peugeot, Delta LLoyd, Volkswagen и других.

Tikatok - Kids Activities: Publish a Children's Book with Tikatok B&N's Digital Textbook Platform Yuzu Continues to Frustrate Students This being January, a new semester is starting at many colleges across the US, and that means that many students are encountering B&N's textbook platform for the first time. Barnes & Noble hasn't officially launched Yuzu in the 9 months since they turned the platform on, but that doesn't mean they're not inflicting it upon college students. The retailer has been promoting Yuzu in the college bookstores it runs while at the same time neglecting to mention that the platform is still under development. Basically B&N has been recruiting college students to be unwitting guinea pigs in the development process, and conning them into paying for the privilege (with no refund option). And judging by the students who have shown up in my comment section, they're not too happy about the situation. For example: I just rented my first e-book for school and of course it’s Yuzu. And then there's this one from yesterday: Yuzu is horrible. And one from last week: What the heck. image by Ant1_G Check These Out!