English as a second language - Basic questions %%page | Games to learn English When students start to learn English as a second language, there is a set of basic questions in English they need to master. All language courses start with these questions, but many people struggle to learn them. It is necessary to learn these by heart. However, you also need to be able to vary them a bit. To help you teach or learn these questions I have devised the following activities: a mind map showing the basic questions for students of English as a second language, a worksheet with several communicative and drilling exercises, a song to help in memorising the questions and an online quiz. I love starting lessons with something interesting. Play the song twice and then play the song on a whiteboard and ask the students to check their answers. Basic question – mind map Ask the students to have a look at this mind map and deduce the meaning of the questions – using the lyrics and the mind map. Ask the students to work in pairs and ask each other these questions. Simple questions
Francis by Richard Hickey Written by novelist & screenwriter Dave Eggars, for the ever-popular radio show This American Life, animated film Francis is the tense tale of the unexplained happenings on a lake in the middle of an Ontario nature preserve. Brought to life by Not to Scale director Richard Hickey and a team of 40 animators, this captivating short perfectly blends the worlds of outstanding production values with engaging storytelling. Her mouth went dry. She held onto each side of the boat, and now she could only wait to see if it happened again. One night on a family camping trip to Quetico park, the reckless raven-haired Francis waits until her family have fallen asleep and takes a rowing boat out to the middle of the lake. With a voiceover so rich and detailed that you could close your eyes and let your imagination run wild, it’s impressive that Hickey’s short feels so perfectly realised.
10 lifesaving websites for ESL teachers | That is Evil! Lisa has asked me for some recommendations regarding useful sites for EFL teachers and I’m happy to make a little compilation of the places I visit most often to find ideas, inspirations, betimes lesson plans if I feel exceptionally lazy (The Liberation of the Garden Gnomes by Peter Vahle is just shiny!) and share them with you. So, here we go – my ten favourite websites: Hope you’ll like my choice and give these sites a go. Enjoy the recommendations I’ve shared and if you know some interesting sites, please, share them with me as well. Enjoy! Like this: Like Loading... Movie Shorts and Reading Strategies Hello friends! Monsters University, what a great movie. But, the short, "Blue Umbrella" really affected me. This first google doc link is to a list of animated shorts. The second google doc link is to a list of graphic organizers to use with each short.
The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition (CARLA) CoBaLTT provides professional development and online resources that help foreign language and immersion teachers create content-based lessons/units using technology to enhance students' language proficiency and content or cultural knowledge. The What and Why of Content-Based Instruction (CBI) Read about what CBI is and why it has been identified as a highly effective curricular approach in the field of language education. CoBaLTT Instructional Modules Visit the CoBaLTT online instructional modules, which were designed to support face-to-face instruction on CBI and provide information about and resources for the main topics. • National Language Standards • Principles of CBI • Curriculum Development for CBI • Instructional Strategies for CBI • Assessment for CBI • Technology for CBI CBI-Based Lesson Plans and Units Browse the lesson plans and units developed by CoBaLTT participants and other teachers of many levels and languages. CoBaLTT Unit Template CoBaLTT Bibliographies CARLA Bibliography
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