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Three famous crimes. Every day in the newspapers you can read about crimes and criminals.

Three famous crimes

However, some crimes are more famous than others. In this activity you will read about three very famous crimes that happened in the UK. The Great Train Robbery One of the most famous robberies in British history happened at 3 am on the morning of 8th August 1963. Past Simple Games. If you want to play the old Flash version of this game, follow this link: past tense - practice the past tense with spelling, grammar practice games, reading and writing activities.

Past Simple Games

Practice the past tense using "be + going to + verb" with these fun games. You can practice spelling, vocabulary, speaking, questions and answers, as well s check your grammar with these free online activities for kids. MES hosts grammar games online to practice verb tenses, spelling, reading, writing, conversation, and grammar in use. How to Create an Online Game of Connect Four. Twice this weekend I had readers email me to ask about creating an online Connect Four game for students to play to review key vocabulary and concepts.

How to Create an Online Game of Connect Four

There are a couple of tools that I recommend for creating that type of review activity. First, Flippity.net offers a virtual manipulatives template that will let students drag and drop to sort vocabulary words. The shortcoming of the template is that students don't get any kind of immediate feedback. The other tool I recommend is the Connect Fours template from ClassTools.net.

The Connect Fours template on ClassTools.net lets you create a Connect Four game that provides students with instant feedback. English Grammar: Master The Future Tense In English with Friends. Present Perfect and Past Simple: The Grammar Gameshow Episode 29. Acid Rain Effects. How To Give Sub Q Injections to Your Pet. An Instructional Coach Shares Strategies for teaching writing. In her first Coaching Sessions blog post, Julie, TeacherVision's Head of Content and Curriculum, and a former instructional coach, shares her learnings and strategies for how to help students find and develop their writing voice.

An Instructional Coach Shares Strategies for teaching writing

Climate 101: Ozone Depletion. Veterinary Procedure - Post Operative Care. Getting Started with Miro. NPR Choice page. Instrument Tech In Vet Clinic (Veterinary Technician Education) Ask the Vet - Surgery Instruments. Photos showing nature healing due to lockdown around the globe. Coronavirus: Earth Day goes digital as the planet heals due to pandemic. A United Nations chief has called on global leaders to show the "same determination" exerted to tackle the coronavirus crisis to address ongoing concerns over climate change.

Coronavirus: Earth Day goes digital as the planet heals due to pandemic

On the 50th Earth Day - an annual event to highlight the importance of protecting the planet - the world is facing unprecedented challenges. Strict measures imposed to stem the spread of Covid-19 have forced a third of the world's population into lockdown. Easter Resources for Teachers (Grades K-12) My Eating Disorder. Publications. Share This Crossword Puzzle CopyShare Focus Mode URL CopyShare.

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Weather forecast. Unit 3 Exercise 1: At the doctor's. Introducing Project-Based Learning in your Classroom Alumni Group - Teachers academy. Evaluation: Are the objectives clearly defined and supported in the process?

Introducing Project-Based Learning in your Classroom Alumni Group - Teachers academy

: 4 = very much so. Lessons you can watch online. For a lot of teachers, it can be hard to find the time or the opportunity to observe and learn from other teachers’ lessons.

Lessons you can watch online

If that’s you, hopefully you’ll find these videos useful. Songs In the Key Of ELT – Wish I Was Skinny. An occasional series of lesson ideas using songs you’re not likely to hear in a coursebook… Artist: The Boo Radleys Song: Wish I Was Skinny Written by: Carr, Martin, James Lyrics:

Songs In the Key Of ELT – Wish I Was Skinny

Facebook. English Video Lessons - Where to find them - YourEnglishSource. English video lessons can really make the classroom fun and interesting.

English Video Lessons - Where to find them - YourEnglishSource

There are many excellent reasons to incorporate a modern and highly produced video into your English class lessons. It raises students interest in the targeted language of the lesson, provides visual and auditory reinforcement of your target language and students can easily access it again after the lesson is done. Finding the best videos can be a challenge so I gathered together the top 5 websites where amazing videos for English video lessons can be found. I am not focusing on “Learn English Instructional Videos” at all. I am focusing on videos about cool topics to show your class that will spark speaking activities, discussions, writing activities, and listening activities on highly relevant and modern topics that you can pick to tailor to your student’s interests.

Google Renewable Energy. Top 5 ESL Games for Teenagers: Try Them Out Today - ESL Speaking. Teaching English to teenagers can be quite difficult because they are notorious for not really wanting to participate in class. They are often shy, tired, and haven’t chosen to take your English class. However, help is here with these top five ESL games for teenagers that are guaranteed to get your teenage students participating in class, speaking English, and having fun despite themselves. Try out just a few of these ESL games for teenagers and you’ll notice that students like your class, like you, and will begin to like English more and more each day.

Concentration ESL Memory Game. Log In - New York Times. Create and Perform a Radio Play - The Theatrefolk Blog. Radio plays are theatrical performances that are purely auditory; they’re meant to be performed on the radio, hence the name! There is no visual aspect, so performers must rely on their vocal performances as well as sound effects and music to convey the story to the audience.

Radio plays are fantastic for students to practice and develop many performance skills like projection, diction, and using emotion, without the pressure of actually getting up and performing in front of others. It also gives students the opportunity to creatively work with playwriting, selecting appropriate music, and creating sound effects.

The following exercise gives students the chance to create their own radio play using a children’s story as the source material. They will then have the opportunity to perform their play for the rest of the class (either a live or pre-recorded performance). Lesson Planning - What Does it Look Like in 2016? - Teacher Tech. I love the templates Google is putting out for Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Forms. I have not put in the effort yet to be a design wizard so having some templates to start with really helps! I am disappointed however with Reading Rainbow, who made a lesson plan template for Google Docs. There is very little that is innovative about this template; it is the same design from 30 years ago.

I appreciate the section that asks for implicit consideration of different types of learners, but is this the only thing that has changed over the last few decades? Culture Has Changed. Past Continuous Tense vs. Past Simple: Mysterious Stalker (ESL Video) Synopsis of English / ESL Video Watch the suspense thriller short about Elissa and the mysterious stalker & present the past continuous tense vs. past simple to students in a pre-intermediate level lesson. 5 Good Lesson Planning Tools for Teachers. In yesterday’s post we reviewed web tools that you can use to create interactive lessons, lessons that integrate a wide variety of multimedia materials. In today’s post, we are sharing with you another collection of web tools in the same direction. These are tools to help you with your lesson planning.

Besides allowing you to design engaging teaching materials, they also provide you with practical functionalities to monitor students learning and track their progress using features such as quizzes and discussions. 1- PlanbookEdu ‘PlanbookEdu takes the hassle out of lesson planning. The Basics of Course Planning. As the new academic year comes closer, many of you will be starting to plan your upcoming courses. Educational courses are usually governed by the basic principles of Curriculum Design and language courses are no exception. English Listening Lesson: Tesla. The Seven Best Short Films for ELT Students - Kieran Donaghy. I’ve been writing lesson plans designed around short films for my website Film English for six years.

Teachers often ask me how I find the short films I use in my lesson plans. The answer is quite simple: I’ve watched literally thousands of short films and developed an instinct for the type of engaging and simple short films which will work in the ELT classroom. 3 Amazing Videos to Raise Awareness and Get Your Learners Talking! - DreamreaderDreamreader. I recently posted a blog post on Language Teaching Professionals about three awesome videos to inspire your learners. ESL Speaking Murder Mystery Game. Learn English with a Murder Mystery. Leo’s bad luck – a lesson plan. Ever since I read the great Listening in the Language Classroom by John Field, the book on developing listening skills, I became quite passionate about the need to consistently help learners cope with high frequency grammar structures in authentic speech, incorporating authentic listening work into grammar work.