Listening Activities

Dear colleagues!





Look through, listen and use the 10 Top Listening Activities.

Virtual excursion

Dear collegues! Could you suggest your ideas about using this video at the lesson? (grade? level? task types? questions?)

We Think

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Year 12 Exam Preparation Tips

Dear colleagues!

It's a bit late, but yesterday I found the Hungarian branch of the British Council with quite interesting guidelines how to design the speaking tasks (as tips for the state exam - http://www.examsreform.hu/Media/TaskDesign.pdf) and Speaking Tasks Samples (http://www.examsreform.hu/Pages/SampleTasks.html).

Also feel free to examine their topical Situational Tasks (http://www.examsreform.hu/Pages/ST_SitTasks.html) ... may help :-).

Enjoy!

Video dictionary

Links for Teachers: Where to start & where to ...

1. "Oh, where to start and where to finish!

I've included some sites that I find really useful and some that have wowed other teachers. There's so much more I could have put in and I'll add some as they come to mind. They're all free, by the way."
Positive and useful link-story from"English language Garden" - http://www.elgweb.net/t_links.html

2. This is Johanna Stirling's (Cambridge University Press) blog about English spelling. How it works, how to learn it, how to teach it, and how to love it! -http://thespellingblog.blogspot.com/

3. "Write or Die" Writing Lab ,

"Applications for Authors. Actual help for the floundering ones, no namby-pamby advice. Utilities that help you get writing done, and tools to help you with the deeply annoying parts of the editing process. Welcome authors one and all to the Lab. " http://lab.drwicked.com/writeordie.html - Write or Die introduces consequences if you do not write. Set goals, choose your mode, and write away, or else!

4. Word Magnets - for use with a projector or interactive whiteboard - http://xmleducation.co.uk/magnets.html - for more information, for how-to's http://www.teachersfirst.com/single.cfm?id=9043

5. Vocabulary work, word clouds - quite spectacular http://www.wordle.net/

Feel free to study my word clouds at

• http://www.wordle.net/gallery?username=Juri

6. For brainstorming ideas before writing - http://bubbl.us/edit.php

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HAPPY EASTER!

Dear Colleagues!

Happy Easter!
And my best Wishes .

Juri Logvin

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Study materials

It seems that we can begin compiling a collection of study materials together. The teachers who attented the seminar in Karjamaa Gymnasium on 20th February have been invited to share this MindMap. They can also invite other people. If other teachers wish to co-operate, send your e-mail address to galinalynx@gmail.com
It can look like this. Join!

Can Music Aid Memory of Text?

Yesterday I caught quite an interesting tool to be used while working with a text - The site is called P22 Music Text Composition Generator and you can find it at:http://p22.com/musicfont/

"...What the site does is to convert a written text into musical notation with a midi music file to play the notation. Well I can hear people thinking; "What's this got to do with language teaching?" and that's a really good question, so here's how this 'might' work.
How to use this with students ... "

I am not sure how it works in any real (traditional) class environment, may be - for motivating, showing the option to learn to the student, but ... m.b. for making your classes more 'colourful', not only 'black-and-white', as they say :-)?
Practically, it can be tried!

Nick Peachey's site is also quite an interesting resource for lots of tools, ideas, etc. in the colourful web 2.0 world for education.

Best regards

Pancake race

Why not organize some event and discuss/describe/do some language structures task at the following lesson? I suggest Pancake Race:
Aim:
-learning traditions of English-speakinng countries
-pre-writing
Preparation:
-presentation "Shrove in England";
-provide pancakes and frying pans;
-divide the students into groups of 5-6 people;
-every group prepares appropriate costumes or at least headwear;
-invite a bell-ringer and assistants;
-think about the prizes;
-make a poster "Pancake Race rules" and study the rules with the students
Procedure:
-students run a relay race with the pancakes on the frying pans;
-at certain places they toss the pancakes at the height of 1 meter (?)

Teachers are invited to suggest language activities after the race. (in the comments)

Shrove Tuesday

Here are links of some pages I have used while teaching
http://www.chiff.com/a/shrove-tuesday.htm
http://puzzles.about.com/od/familyfun/qt/KidsMardiGras.htm
http://www.guy-sports.com/humor/saints/shrove_tuesday.htm

Another idea is to build a lesson around watching some authentic video clips about traditions. Like that


Or students can watch this music video about making pancakes and write the instructions.

Quiz

Just posting last year's quiz questions on England and Wales.

Quiz England and Wales

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Shrove Tuesday

Dear collegues!
Let us work at one lesson plan together! There is a month before Shrove Tuesday. Why not compile a folder on this theme in cooperation with each other! Please, share your ideas, links, materials, activities, games; at least, words of support. May be it will work!