E.gg Timer - a simple countdown timer Fokuserede øvelser til at træne ordforråd | 111 variation Det er egentlig let nok at finde på gloseøvelser, men når det skal gøres systematisk og i kontekst, kan det godt knibe lidt mere med opfindsomheden, synes jeg. Så her kommer 8 forslag til rimelig fokuseret ordforrådstræning. List-group-label er en ide jeg har fået fra Teach them English. Bed eleverne finde på ord de forbinder med et bestemt tema eller en titel på en tekst. Lav en vild brainstorm sammen på klassen, og bed herefter eleverne i grupper sortere ordene i semantiske felter. De skal kunne argumentere for deres grupperinger.
Kopia av Linking words The 50 most important English proverbs The 50 most important English proverbs What are proverbs? Every culture has a collection of wise sayings that offer advice about how to live your life. How can you use proverbs to learn English? It's good to know the really common English proverbs because you hear them come up in conversation all the time. You know what they say: when the going gets tough... (Read #5 below to learn the rest of this proverb and what it means.) Learning proverbs can also help you to understand the way that people in English-speaking cultures think about the world. Proverbs can also give you good example sentences which you can memorize and use as models for building your own sentences. The most important English Proverbs This is a list of some of the most important and well-known English proverbs. The meanings of some of these phrases have shifted over the years, so a proverb might have originally had a different meaning than the one I explain. "Two wrongs don't make a right." Print this List
PechaFlickr: Få mundtøjet i gang | 111 variation TeflGeek postede for nylig dette indlæg på sin blog om det lille program PechaFlickr, som han gav et par solide ideer til brugen af. Du kender sikkert konceptet Pecha Kucha hvor man laver en præsentation bestående af tyve billeder/stikord og så taler ud fra disse 20 slides i 20 sekunder om hvert slide. PechaFlickr følger konceptet, men her vælger Flickr 20 tilfældige billeder ud for dig ud fra et tema som du selv bestemmer. Og så afspilles billederne ellers i den hastighed du ønsker (som standard er billederne sat til at vise i 20 sekunder ad gangen, men under ’advanced options’ har du mulighed for at tilpasse både hvor mange billeder der skal vises, og hvor længe de skal vises. Dette er jo – som TeflGeek også påpeger – et rigtig godt værktøj til at træne mundtlighed. Giv eleverne et tema på PechaFlickr, og sæt dem i par eller grupper af tre.
ESL Writing Lessons: Topic Sentences (Practice Worksheet) Topic Sentences: Practice Read the paragraphs below. They are missing a topic sentence. Write a topic sentence that introduces the main idea of each paragraph. *Note: You do not have to use a simile or metaphor, but sometimes these are good ways to write interesting topic sentences. __________________________________________________________. When you travel to Europe, you can visit many different countries, such as England, Spain, Germany, and Greece. Her name is Mrs. Serial Taxi This EFL lesson plan is designed around Serial Taxi a short animation by Paolo Cogliati and the theme of murder mysteries. Students predict what is going to happen in a film, watch a short film and write a murder mystery. Language level: Intermediate (B1) – Upper Intermediate (B2) Learner type: Teens and adults Time: 60 minutes Activity: Watching a short film, reading, speaking and writing Topic: Murder mystery Language: Future tenses for predictions and narrative tenses Materials: Short film Downloadable materials: serial taxi lesson instructions The School for Training is a small specialist teacher training institute in Barcelona, providing innovative courses of the highest quality for teachers from around the world. Find out more about the courses and how to enrol here. Overview This lesson plan is designed around Serial Taxi a short animation by Paolo Cogliati and the theme of murder mysteries. Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Cue the film at 00.04. Step 4 Play the film until 01:22 and pause. Step 5 Step 6
FiveThirtyEight ESL Writing Lessons: Concluding Sentences Concluding Sentences When you write a paragraph, you need to start with a topic sentence, give examples and details in the body, and end with a proper concluding sentence. The conclusion is the end of the paragraph. You can often use phrases like this to begin the concluding sentence: As you can see, That’s why… In brief, In conclusion, On the whole, In sum, In short, In summary, For example: Topic sentence: My grandfather had more stories than a children’s library. Conclusion: As you can see, my grandfather had an endless imagination that brought smiles to everyone around him. Topic sentence: When I was a child, I thought my grandfather was superman. Conclusion: In short, although he is not really a super hero, my grandfather is very special to me for many reasons. Topic sentence: My pet dog has eaten my homework, destroyed my shoes, and bitten my friend, but still I can never get angry at her. Read the topic sentences below, then write a concluding sentence that says almost the same thing. 1. 2. 3.
Short Stories at East of the Web A game of Scrabble has serious consequences. - Length: 4 pages - Age Rating: PG - Genre: Crime, Humor A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger. - Length: 7 pages - Genre: Fiction, Humor ‘Bloody hell!’ - Genre: Humor Looking round he saw an old woman dragging a bucket across the floor and holding a mop. - Length: 3 pages Henry pours more coal onto the hearth as a gust of wind rattles through the cracked window frame. - Length: 14 pages - Genre: Horror ulissa Ye relished all the comfortable little routines and quietude defining her part-time job at The Bookery, downtown’s last small, locally-owned bookstore. - Length: 8 pages - Age Rating: U The forest looked ethereal in the light from the moon overhead. - Length: 15 pages - Age Rating: 18 Corporal Earnest Goodheart is crouched in a ditch on the edge of an orchard between Dunkirk and De Panne. - Genre: Fiction - Length: 20 pages
Statement by the President on the Situation in Paris THE PRESIDENT: Good evening, everybody. I just want to make a few brief comments about the attacks across Paris tonight. Once again, we’ve seen an outrageous attempt to terrorize innocent civilians. This is an attack not just on Paris, it’s an attack not just on the people of France, but this is an attack on all of humanity and the universal values that we share. We stand prepared and ready to provide whatever assistance that the government and the people of France need to respond. Paris itself represents the timeless values of human progress. We’re going to do whatever it takes to work with the French people and with nations around the world to bring these terrorists to justice, and to go after any terrorist networks that go after our people. We don’t yet know all the details of what has happened. This is a heartbreaking situation. Thank you very much.
Summarizing Worksheets | Learn How to Summarize Summarizing is one of those skills that may seem very easy to a teacher but can be difficult for students who have not been properly taught how to summarize. For many years I did not even teach my seventh and eighth grade students how to summarize. I would just ask them to summarize texts and then get mad at them when they failed to produce quality summaries. I was wrong in doing this. Now I always teach my students how to write summaries. Writing a good summary is not as easy as it may appear. Here are some resources that I used in my classroom to teach my students how to summarize. Summarizing Lesson – Here is an animated PowerPoint slideshow teaching students how to summarize. Summary and Main Idea Worksheet 1 – Students will read four nonfiction paragraphs about trains. Summary and Main Idea Worksheet 2 – My students loved reading these four nonfiction passages about ninjas and I hope yours do too. Summarizing Practice – Here is a PowerPoint slideshow with four practice passages.
MacScouter -- Stories for Scouts & Scouters Ghost Stories There must be hundreds of good Ghost Stories and other spooky stories out there, suitable for telling around the campfire. Please send me your favorites and I'll include them here. Table of Contents The Lady with the Emerald Ring I heard this one while visting a place in England the previous summer, and it scared the living day lights out of me, only to prevail that I had a good laugh when they were done with the tale. A man's wife became deathly ill the night before Christmas in 1798, he called for the doctor but by the time the doctor had arrived his wife had died, or so it seemed. When later that night the Clergy man fell to sleep he remembered the beautiful emerald ring the woman had been laid with on her finger. He ran with all his might upstairs where he hung himself from the rafters of his home. Wearing nothing but her fine silk dress she walked back to the home and knocked on the door and rang the bell to no avail. With this he shut the window. -- Thanks to Julia Dawn.
How ordinary people decide to become terrorists For all the hand-wringing in the US over the threat posed by Syrian refugees, it turned out that so far, every positively identified terrorist from the Paris attacks was not a refugee at all — but rather, a European Union citizen. Those in the US who advocate for accepting Syrian refugees have emphasized this as a way to counter fear of refugees. But this revelation highlights a very different and all-too-real threat: Westerners who join terror groups such as ISIS. And people are naturally wondering what the hell is going on in France and Belgium that a handful of its citizens would commit such terrible acts against innocent people. The threat is often shorthanded as "radicalization." The key thing to understand about "radicalization": It's not exclusive to any one group or religion Radicalization is the process by which individuals (or groups) come to adopt extremist views, particularly sociopolitical and/or religious views. Are there root causes of radicalization? Why France and Belgium?