US Elections 2012

Here is a Diigo list of links to learn about the US Elections and practise the vocabulary:

US Elections 2012

My students' hobbies

I know they aren't very original, but I've used WORDLE to show you my students' hobbies.

A restaurant conversation

I've prepared this comic for my students. It's a typical restaurant conversation.






 You can see the original comic  here.

And this is the video version:
At a restaurant by graquel on GoAnimate

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Happy Halloween!

Halloween is coming, and children love songs and videos, so this link is very useful to work on it and revise vocabulary. Have a nice celebration and remember to brush your teeth after having so many sweets!

Songs to learn TENSES

I'm preparing a  www.scoop.it  about up to date songs that can be useful to practise Tenses. I want to add more songs and I accept suggestions!

Tenses explanation

Here I am again. This time to show you a presentation that explains the English tense system. It explains it from an American point of view, so some tenses are considered as useless. However, it is helpful because the animations are clear.

Fairy tales with Wordle

I have followed Emilio Quintana's idea to use WORDLE, an on-line application that does not require registration to create clouds of words.  
In this example, you can see the most common words of a very famous fairy tale. Do you know which one?
 

"TH" Pronunciation

Here you can find some links to improve your pronunciation, paying attention to the difference between VOICED and VOICELESS   "th".

Speaking activity to practise Reported Speech

This speaking activity tries to make students imagine and express what the people in the pictures are thinking or saying. Useful to practise reported speech. You have to download it to make the links work.

What are they thinking - Download here

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20 seconds - describing people

This is an activity I use with students to improve speaking. This time, the topic is describing people as much as possible, trying to imagine things about their private life. Mistakes are accepted, because the aim is to make the students speak uninterruptedly for 20 seconds!

20 seconds describing people

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The Joy of Books

This week, we celebrate the 23rd April with many activities related to books and reading, so I feel this video may be inspiring:

Songs to revise modal verbs

There are many songs that contain modal verbs, but here are some examples to revise them. I hope you like them!

Present continuous funny videos

I've found some interesting videos to revise present continuous. The first one can be seen if you click here. The other two are below. Have fun!

And these are two simple follow-up activities:

Present continuous video activities

Easter is coming!

I want to share with you these two videos related to Easter. Have fun!

Brainbox games to improve speaking and memory skills

Brainbox games can be very useful to activate your memory, practise vocabulary and understanding questions. There are many different games, so you can deal with many topics. The aim of the game is to watch a card fon ten seconds and try to memorise all the details and information in order to answer the questions about it. And you learn a lot!  For example, with NATURE, you learn about plants and animals:

Yada Yada English - Conversation strategies

 This website gives vocabulary, conversation strategies and role-play exercises  to face real situations like "asking for help", "at a bank", or "at the doctor's".
It also has special sections, like HOTEL ENGLISH and DAILY IDIOMS.

Postcrossing

The Postcard Crossing Project   is a gorgeous idea to remember the time when you received real postcards at home. Our students don't know how exciting this feeling can be! If you register, yu can request an address to send your postcard, and you will recive another from a different place. This way, you can practise your English and get some information about interesting places (culture, geography, etc). I'm willing to start!!!

ELLLO - Video listening

www.elllo.org  is an astounding website with loads of videos recorded by people from all over the world, and the topics are very varied. The best thing is that they have exercises with self-correction, and you can turn the subtitles on or off, or even read the transcript at the end. Here you have an example:

The Guardian - Learning English

The Guardian has an interesting site to help you learn English where you can find graded texts taken from their news reports, and activities related to them.
This is an example. You can visualize the document or download the PDF file on the right margin:

Learn English Through Movies

This website  uses film trailers to do listening exercises. Here you have an example from the film Hugo: (the exercise is here)

Scoop.it - Films, theatre and music

Scoop.it   is a great tool to gather news or material about one topic. It's visually very attractive and you can upload videos and pictures. The website suggests you sources to add to your post, and you can browse other people's material to learn or use in your class. If you want to see an example, I used it to help my students with vocabulary about films, theatre and music.