National #AIDS Trust. Educational resources

World AIDS Day takes place on 1 December each year. Founded in 1988, World AIDS Day was the first ever global health day.

The National AIDS Trust (UK) offers free educational resources to have a better understanding of the realities of living with HIV and to know how to protect yourself from infection. Good practices, World AIDS day Resources, ideas, lesson plans and activities...

Visit:

https://www.nat.org.uk/teachers-resources

Douglas Wise Education Blog

The Douglas Wise website was created to provide educational commentary and teaching resources. Douglas Wise is a teacher of English and assistant principal (teaching and learning) at a secondary comprehensive school in Northampton.

Amazing blog with many educational and ELT resources.

Visit the website on:

https://www.douglaswise.co.uk/

On Twitter:

https://twitter.com/DoWise

Flashcard Stash

Created by David Lynam in 2009, Flashcard Stash (originally WordStash) allows you to create and customize your own digital flashcards. You can easily add images to your flashcards from Wikipedia and Flickr.

Flashcard Stash is built on top of a dictionary and contains over 200,000 English words and phrases. This helps when creating vocabulary flashcards by allowing you to select existing definitions.

Flashcard Stash has been designed with a game element. It has an integrated points system that rewards you with points as you learn. (Source Flashcard Stash)

Visit:

http://flashcardstash.com/

Audio Joiner

Audio Joiner is a free online tool you can use to combine multiple audio tracks into one. There is no limit on the number of tracks you can join. Audio Joiner supports more than 300 audio formats and converts them to mp3.

Visit:

https://audio-joiner.com/

The Great Thanksgiving Listen

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated on various dates in the United States (4th Thursday in November), Canada, some of the Caribbean islands, and Liberia. 

The Great Thanksgiving Listen is a national movement that empowers young people and people of all ages to create an oral history of the contemporary United States by recording an interview with an elder, mentor, friend, or someone they admire using the free StoryCorps App. (Source: The Great Thanksgiving Listen)

If you want to know about it visit: 

https://storycorps.org/participate/the-great-thanksgiving-listen/

Humanising Language Teaching

Edited by Hania Kryszewska and published by Pilgrims, Humanising Language Teaching is a free online magazine for teachers of English. Since 1999 it offers ELT articles and ELT resources, lesson plans, book reviews, CLIL resources and more.

Visit this magazine on:

https://www.hltmag.co.uk/

Fall of the Berlin Wall

It's been 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall For many years, the Berlin Wall separated East Germany from West Germany, acting as a barrier that symbolised the political divisions of the time.

On November 9, 1989, the East German government announced that all East Germany citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. When the Italian reporter Riccardo Ehrmann asked Günter Schabowski, the spokesman for the SED Politburo, when this would apply, Schabowski seemed unsure, but then said "immediately". Within minutes, crowds gathered at the border demanding to cross.

Some educational resources about the rise and fall of the Berlin:

https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2216&context=gradreports
https://study.com/academy/popular/berlin-wall-lesson-plan.html

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Browse/Search:berlin%20wall%20activities

https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/spr/unt/kum/-frv.html?forceDesktop=1

https://www.abc.net.au/btn/classroom/berlin-wall/11657754

https://www.gale.com/intl/archives-explored/berlin-wall

Expresso

Expresso is an interactive tool to analyze, edit and compare text styles in English. You can use Expresso to monitor changes in your writing style over time or to highlight weak parts of a text which can benefit from stylistic changes.

It will teach you to express yourself through writing more efficiently and help make your texts more readable, precise, and engaging. Expresso does not save entered texts to protect privacy.  

(Source: Expresso)

Discover it on:

https://www.expresso-app.org/

Educandy

With Educandy you can generate 8 types of engaging activities in minutes. You enter your words, questions and answers and this service turns your content into interactive games.

You can also share those games through a unique code that is generated when you create the activities.

https://www.educandy.com/

On Twitter @educandydotcom

https://twitter.com/educandydotcom

On Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/educandydotcom

App on GooglePlay

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.com.educandy.student

App on the App Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/educandy/id1436579473

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