From the monthly archives: February 2012
- Angela Maiers: Stop Stealing Dreams – Seth Godin’s Manifesto on Transforming Education
- Movie Worksheet: Invictus
- Worksheet: Movie Worksheet Invictus in Pictures
- Worksheet: Missing Word Association Definitions
- Worksheet: Where’s The Monkey? Prepositions Of Place
- BusyTeacher Blog: Communicative Ideas for Puzzles in the ESL Classroom
- Today’s EnglishTeachingDaily Posts
The Angela Maiers latest blog post is titled “Stop Stealing Dreams – Seth Godin’s Manifesto on Transforming Education”.
Angela says, “As parents we are raised to have a dream for our kids—we want them to be happy, adjusted, successful. We want them to live meaningful lives, to contribute in positive ways, and to find and live a life that matters.
The BusyTeacher.org team has added a worksheet titled “Movie Worksheet: Invictus”.
The BusyTeacher.org team says, “Invictus – Plot: Nelson Mandela, president of South Africa, decides to use the upcoming Rugby World Cup games to re-define South Africa and encourage coloured and white South Africans to cooperate with one another as they build a new nation.
The BusyTeacher.org team has added a worksheet titled “Past Simple Bingo 1″.
The BusyTeacher.org team says, “Let’s face it, the seemingly endless list of irregular verbs in the past simple never excites students and they basically just have to learn them so…make it fun and play bingo! This is a fun way to practice or revise some common verbs in the past simple. You call out the infinitive and your students have to say the past simple form of the verb and find it on their bingo cards. If you haven’t played bingo with your class before, model how to “call bingo” first and then let your students take turns.
The BusyTeacher.org team has added a worksheet titled “Missing Word Association Definitions”.
The BusyTeacher.org team says, “In this exercise students have to guess the missing words in the chain of associations. The teacher gives clues/definitions and also explains the connections between the words in the chain.
The BusyTeacher.org team has added a worksheet titled “Where’s The Monkey? Prepositions Of Place”.
The BusyTeacher.org team says, “It´s an easy activity to practice prepositions of place. Students will be able to recongnize the meaning of prepositions and use the language in order to describe different pictures.
The latest BusyTeacher.org blog post is titled “Communicative Ideas for Puzzles in the ESL Classroom”.
The BusyTeacher.org team says, “Does it seem strange that an activity that is as visually based as a puzzle can be used for communicative activities in the ESL classroom?
The latest BusyTeacher.org blog post is titled “What You Can Do With Writing Prompts Part Four: Types of Essays”.
The BusyTeacher.org team says, “Have you ever longed for a tool that you could use in your ESL class that would add a spark of interest to any area of your curriculum?
The latest GetEnglishLessons.com blog post is titled “Are you a loner? – Conversation worksheet”.
The GetEnglishLessons.com team says, “Shyness is a natural emotion which can be difficult to overcome since it is based on insecurity.
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This article (strategy 1 and 2) intends to provide evidence to show that English can be learnt through other subjects as well. It also highlights how children’s creative skill and their inner schema are at work in a classroom. Gone are the days when a teacher could enter a classroom and give a lecture and walk out satistisfied. Today, children learn a lot through interaction in the classroom. A noisy classroom therefore cannot be termed as a classroom with no teaching. A teacher should know to enter into their world and observe the dynamic learning process and get the best out of them by way of prodding, enthusing and enabling them to reach out for materials that aid learning a particular topic. There is no doubt that language acquisition happens spontaneously in such an environment.
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The latest update on The English-Speaking Union is titled “ESU INTERNATIONAL DELEGATIONS – REPORT FROM DENMARK”.
The English-Speaking Union team says, “In November 2011, the ESU sent a pair of Delegates, Charlie Morris and Akash Mukerji, on a five day tour of Denmark, where they delivered speech and debating workshops to students and teachers.
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The latest TEFLGeek blog post is titled “The Future of English – English in the East (BBC Podcast)”.
The TEFLGeek team says, “For anyone interested in the future of the English language, a fascinating BBC documentary is currently available to download here: BBC – Podcasts – Documentaries.
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- Video: Classroom Management Tips & Tricks “Documentary”
- Video: Teaching Pronunciation with Jazz Chants
- Video: Teaching Action Words with Charades – ESL, EFL, TEFL
- Video: Teaching Speaking with Task-Based Learning
- Video: British Council – Teaching Speaking Techniques (John Kay)
- Video: Community Language Learning
- Video: Communicative Language Teaching Activity Part 2
- Video: Communicative Language Teaching Activity Part 1
- Video: Error correction at end of lesson
This is a “documentary” for a classroom management assignment that outlines some simple tips & tricks for classroom misbehavior. It also shows some great examples of what NOT to do.
Students use rhythmic chants to notice and produce correct stresses in sentences. Through clapping and speaking, the class learns the patterns in a fun, low-pressure way. Later, they can transfer these skills to conversation.
In the classic game of charades, students mime action verbs while the others watch. The class guesses the demonstrated verb and makes sentences in the present continuous tense. In this way, students see, feel, hear, and say the word.
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