With Halloween approaching, our blog post features this video explaining Halloween in simple words. Ideal for use in class with your English students.
Created by Shona Nichols whose Youtube channel we recommend you to visit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0R2NxEsL5g
Slide deck (PDF)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u4L_0f9v-Rs9EWLeP49-EE2vjm0HBqB7/view
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(Source: https://www.bl.uk/20th-century-literature/activities/black-literature-timeline)
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Creative writing site created by Terry Frielander, that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords. Its object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture.
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You can find it through the following link:
The project began at a hostel in Prague, Czech Republic, where visitors began contributing their languages to the LingYourLanguage collection. It soon spread to family, friends, acquaintances, friends of friends, and so on, and links together people and cultures.
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It includes two main parts-the literacy grid template with the explanations and 10 exemplary literacy units with some additional materials such as unit plans, teaching materials, video-taped lesson fragments and commentaries given by students and teachers.
The initial set of 10 units was created specifically for grades 3, 4, and 5 by international teams of teachers from Poland, Slovenia, and Spain.
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Diseñado mediante la herramienta Genially por Marco Marañés (@maarcoo43), se orienta al alumnado de primaria y se apoya en personajes de ficción para abordar los contenidos desde una perspectiva amigable basada en el juego y en el conocimiento de las historias que protagonizan dichos personajes.
El recurso, donde aparece anunciada la incorporación de otras secciones basados en diversas películas, podéis encontrarlo en:
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The aim of the “Language-aware teacher” MOOC is to enhance teachers’ awareness about the language competences of their students and how to benefit from them as well as to provide them with different tools and resources to support them to deliver curricular subjects in different languages.
Start date
Monday, 20 September 2021
End date
Wednesday, 27 October 2021
Duration
The course lasts for 5,5 weeks: during the first four weeks, one new module opens every Monday. The deadline for the final assignment is Wednesday, 27 October.
The estimated workload is 4-5 hours per week, with a total of approximately 25 hours for the completion of the course.
Target audience
This course is meant for primary and secondary school teachers and teacher trainers from Europe and beyond. The course also aims at teachers who work in bilingual and CLIL contexts (schools) regardless of the subject they usually teach.
Certification
You will receive a digital course badge and a course certificate if you complete the full course: this means you have to visit all sections and complete the final peer assessment activity before the deadline.
(Source School Education Gateway)
https://academy.schooleducationgateway.eu/en/web/language-diversity-in-classroom-2021/home
The attacks killed 2,977 people, including civilians, Pentagon military personnel and the firefighters, police and emergency medical personnel who arrived on the scene.
There are many different educational resources that try to explain these attacks to students. The following list may be useful in communicating an event that would be of great importance in the future to those who did not witness it first-hand.
The National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial
https://pentagonmemorial.org/learn/education-materials
Library of Congress
https://www.loc.gov/collections/september-11th-2001-documentary-project/about-this-collection/
National Education Association
https://www.nea.org/professional-excellence/student-engagement/tools-tips/teaching-about-911
Smithsonian Magazine
Teacher Planet
https://www.teacherplanet.com/content/september-11th-911
Scholastic
PSB
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/2021/08/911-anniversary-in-the-classroom/
911day.org
Mediante la introducción de las TIC se propone la creación de un vídeo de un programa de noticias en diversos formatos y sobre temas de interés para el alumnado.
Si queréis conocer la experiencia, así como los detalles de su realización y recursos que se propusieron para llevarla a cabo, podéis consultar:
Así mismo, la experiencia es accesible a través de la descarga de un .PDF
https://intef.es/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Broadcast-your-news-programme_final.pdf
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Free lesson plans, flashcards, worksheets, craft sheets, downloadable songs and classroom readers that you can use in your ESL for kids lessons.
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The Regional Educational Media Center Association of Michigan is a nonprofit organization established in 1969. Its members are the 28 local regional educational media centers operated through the intermediate school district structure.
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https://twitter.com/PunHubOnline
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On Android:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.howjsay.search
On App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/app/id333252081?referrer=click%3D753e95d1-cecd-4ae4-a472-66a71c508fa0
Students can do the worksheets online and send their answers to the teacher.
Additionally, their interactive worksheets take advantage of the new technologies applied to education: they may include sounds, videos, drag and drop exercises, join with arrows, multiple choice... and even speaking exercises, that the students must do using the microphone.
Source Liveworksheets
(Source: https://myocean.marine.copernicus.eu/data?view=about)
The goal of the Jukebox is to present to the widest audience possible early commercial sound recordings, offering a broad range of historical and cultural documents as a contribution to education and lifelong learning.
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