Using visuals to introduce Halloween activities

By Neha Joshi On November 18, 2011 · Leave a Comment

The article ‘Using visuals to introduce Halloween activities’ by Jennifer Verschoor was originally published on jenverschoor.wordpress.com. We are thankful to Jennifer for granting permission to reprint it for the readers of English Teaching Daily.

Using visuals to introduce Halloween activities by Jennifer Verschoor

Visuals reinforce concepts and vocabulary. They add variety and emphasis to presentations. 3M/Wharton School study (1981) and the University of Minnesota/3M study (1986). They conclude that there are three areas in particular where the use of visuals can improve presentations:

To improve communication effectiveness

To improve audience’s perceptions of presenter

To improve speaker’s confidence

After reading this research I started using some really motivating and visually attractive websites with young learners to engage them in Halloween activities.

Feel free to use these websites with your students.

1) Learning chocolate offers a wonderful link with engaging activities for young learners.

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2) Allow your students to review the previous vocabulary by using Taggalaxy to search for new vocabulary.

3) If you are a very busy teacher just download these ready-made presentations on Halloween

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4) Make your students guess the Halloween jigsaw puzzle image

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5) Allow your students to create their own Halloween story

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6) Read a Halloween story created by a student online. Inspire your students to create and share their own story.

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About Jennifer Verschoor

Jennifer Verschoor graduated from St. Andrews Scot’s Schoolin Argentina. She holds degrees as English University Professor, Bachelor in Educational Management, English Public Translator and ICT in the Classroom validated byTrinity College London. At the moment she is studying for her Master´s degree in Virtual Environments. She is a member of The Round and is going to publish her first ebook in December 2010.

Her emphasis in training teachers to integrate technology into the classroom started several years ago. Since then has given numerous workshops on the integration of New Technologies in Education in Argentina, Japan, Paraguay and Costa Rica. She has delivered online presentations for Tesol France, Besig in Germany, Tesol Uruguay, ETAS in Switzerland and IATEFL LT SIG.

Currently she is working as the Coordinator of New Technologies for the Teaching of English at a Bilingual School. She is a teacher trainer for SBS Argentina, ITESL and St.Matthew´s college and a course coordinator at ESSARP, specialised in Technology Integration in the classroom.

She is a proud WEBHEAD and President of ARCALLArgentine Computer Assisted Language Learning. She participated in several online international projects asGlobal Partners Junior provided by IEARN. She has been an online moderator in various TESOL Electronic Village Online sessions since 2006. She was hired by The Consultants-E to create a Science Webquest.

About Rita Zeinstejer

Rita Zeinstejer is a retired teacher. She is a freelance consultant and presenter.

Visit Rita’s blog at techtools4educators1.blogspot.com.