We wish you a very happy new year.
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."
Albert Einstein.
sábado, 31 de diciembre de 2016
martes, 27 de diciembre de 2016
Viralelt
Awesome
site by Ian James (@ij64)
where you can find short and engaging viral clips with ELT lessons
planned around them.
The
aim of Viralelt is harness their emotional impact to generate
language in the ELT classroom. Each video on Viralelt is accompanied
by 10 conversation questions and a listening activity.
Most
of the activities are aimed at upper intermediate to advanced adult
learners of English.
On
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ij64
On
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/viralelt
domingo, 25 de diciembre de 2016
FREE ESL Christmas worksheets
iSLCollective.com,
a community of language teachers from around the world who share
their homemade worksheets on a free-to-use platform, provides this
amazing collection of ESL worksheets connected with the Christmas
period.
Visit:
martes, 20 de diciembre de 2016
Common Sense Education
Common Sense is the largest independent nonprofit
organization committed to helping kids, teachers, and families manage
media and technology in life and learning.
Common Sense Education provides high-quality digital
literacy and citizenship programs to educators and school
communities. Their free resources include ratings and reviews of
digital tools, a comprehensive K–12 Digital Citizenship Curriculum,
ready-made lesson, plans, videos, webinars, and more.
On Twitter: @CommonSenseEd
lunes, 19 de diciembre de 2016
CEFIRE de Elda. Online course: English Resources
Objectives:
- To reflect on the importance of the methodological
strategies and the materials used in the classroom.
- To know and use different ICT tools for English
teaching/learning in secondary schools and eoi.
- To share teaching/ learning resources embedded in the
communicative approach.
- To give examples of educational experiences related to
English learning using ICT.
- To suggest different activities that encourage
linguistic and cultural reflection and learning through ICT.
Contents:
- Methodological aspects, didactic resources and the
inclusion of cultural contents in English learning.
- Reflection on authentic materials and their use in the
classroom.
- Online resources to practice the four skills: reading,
listening, writing and speaking.
- Materials and online tools that encourage communication
in the classroom.
- Collaborative learning tools on the 2.0 web.
Get more information by visiting the application page:
http://mestreacasa.gva.es/web/cefireelda/inscripcio
jueves, 15 de diciembre de 2016
Visuals for Foreign Language Instruction
This interesting website contains hundreds of visual
aids that can be used to support instructional tasks. It can be
useful for ESL teachers when teaching vocabulary and grammar.
The illustrations were created as part of the Visuals
for Developing Communication Skills in Foreign Language Classes
(University of Pittsburgh).
All the illustrations were drawn by Alec
Sarkas from the Center for
Instructional Development & Distance Education (CIDDE)
You can search for an image or browse the collection.
The University of Pittsburgh provides access to the
digital materials on this site for educational and research purposes
only. Any other use of these materials, including but not limited to
commercial or scholarly reproductions, redistribution, publication,
or transmission, is strictly prohibited without written
permission.
miércoles, 14 de diciembre de 2016
Christmas Vocabulary Flashcards
ESLforKids.net, a website by Mateusz Wawrzynowicz, an
ESL teacher from Poland, provides a set of flashcards with words
related to Christmas vocabulary.
A useful resource for this time of year. You can
download the flashcards with or without words.
Visit:
viernes, 9 de diciembre de 2016
Buncee
Buncee is a creation and presentation tool for students
and educators that enables them to easily bring together all kinds of
content (buncee artwork, photos, videos, drawings, audio, and links)
onto one digital canvas, making a cloud-based, shareable creation. It
allows learners to visualize concepts and communicate creatively. It
also provides a catalog of stock images and animations that they can
add to their slides.
https://www.edu.buncee.com/
https://www.edu.buncee.com/
jueves, 8 de diciembre de 2016
Using Video in the Classroom
Along with other resources,
videos are a great way to help improve students’ comprehension
skills.
If you are interested in the
use of video as a tool for ESL teaching (why and how to use it, good
practices and examples...), we recommend you read this free handbook
by David Deubelbeiss, a
professor, teacher trainer and tech advocate.
domingo, 4 de diciembre de 2016
ListenAndReadAlong
ListenandReadAlong is a very useful ESL resource if you want to improve your pronunciation and intonation.
You can listen to stories and read along with them. Words are highlighted as you hear them, so it's easy to follow the text as you listen.
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PIZZAZ. Creative #Writing
PIZZAZ (People Interested in Zippy and ZAny Zcribbling) has been an Online Resource since 1995 from Leslie Opp-Beckman
For Scribblers and Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL).
This site uses poems and short stories as writing examples and exercises to teach creative writing and usage. It provides simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with printable handouts for: Poetry, Fiction and Tricks. They can be used with all ages.