Digibooks Featured Digibooks Use these multimedia digibooks to engage students on a range of topics and to help with homework. view The White Australia Policy Brought to you by the ABC and National Archives of Australia (NAA) History Years: 9, 10 41 digibooks Sort by: view The wonders of Ancient Egypt History Year: 7 15 items Celebrations History Years: 2, 3 12 items Renewable energy Science, STEM Years: 9, 10 Earthquakes Science Years: 6, 7, 8 10 items James Cook - Finding Your Way Brought to you by the ABC and National Museum of Australia History, Geography Year: 4 6 items The Home Front Brought to you by the ABC and National Library of Australia History Year: 9 7 items Where's the best place to live? Geography Years: 7, 8 Remarkable animal and plant life cycles Science Years: 2, 3, 4 14 items Great Barrier Reef Science Years: 5, 6, 7, 8 Shakespeare Unbound Brought to you by the ABC and Bell Shakespeare The Arts|English Years: 9, 10 8 items Skin and scales, feathers and fur Science Years: F, 1 A robot future The power of speech
Openclass.ch - l'écriture collaborative n'a jamais été aussi facile! - La Tablette Pédagogique Avez-vous déjà fait de l’écriture collaborative avec vos élèves? Autrement dit, on écrit tous un article sur la guerre froide – par exemple – dans lequel chacun a la possibilité d’ajouter des éléments et de modifier ce qui a été précédemment fait… De nombreux outils numériques permettent de le faire. Nous citerons par exemple Moodle, Wikipedia ou encore Google. Direction, via navigateur internet, sur Openclass.ch pour celui ou celle qui souhaite créer une nouvelle page. Une fois la page créée, il suffit de donner l’adresse à vos élèves pour que ceux-ci y ait accès directement et sans mot de passe via leur navigateur. Il est facile d’ajouter du texte, de le mettre en forme, de rajouter des images. Les différentes publications peuvent être parcourues par mot-clé ou par auteur afin de faciliter la recherche. C’est bien joli, mais on en fait quoi en classe??? Quelques idées d’utilisation:
Five of the best CLIL resources online - CLIL Media In the posts on this website I usually share my opinion on CLIL as well as share some ideas of others. This time however, I would like to share CLIL resources that I think are really worth your time and can be used to advance both your knowledge of CLIL as well as help you with ideas for your lessons. 1. Peter Sansom’s Blog Peter Sansom is a Dutch Art and Design CLIL teacher who shares his lesson ideas on his blog. 2. CLIL and Drama, a perfect combination according to this website. Do you teach drama? 3. As CLIL has become a world wide phenomenon, a lot of research has been done to study its effects and results. If you are interested in more information regarding the research into CLIL, this is your place to be. 4. Combining CLIL and ICT was a theme of CLIL Magazine not long ago, and this website has taken this to the next level. 5. Not a CLIL website per sé, but a great website to be inspired by a variety of activities. Ever in need of ideas? Conclusion
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Mes rituels d'Anglais sur l'année avec le TBI - supermaitre Durant l'année, toutes mes séances d'Anglais sont faites de la même manière : - greetings / rituels - activités variées de réinvestissement ou découverte - séquence en suivant la programmation de mon département. J'ai déjà proposé toutes mes activités quotidiennes de lecture / écriture / civilisation / compréhension orale et j'ai commencé récemment à mettre en ligne mes séquences sur TBI. Je propose aujourd'hui les rituels mis en place systématiquement à chaque début de journée ( 3 à 5 min) en Anglais. Tous les fichiers TBI ci-joints proposent des aides pour l'enseignant ou les élèves avec systématiquement les sons des questions /réponses. du navigateur Activinspire précise les différents travaux à faire. Périodes 1 et 2 : Warming up (très inspiré du travail du site LVE21) Galerie des pages du fichier TBI pour avoir une idée : Périodes 3 et 4: TV Show (carrément découvert grâce au site LVE21) Image du fichier TBI pour avoir une idée :
CLILingmesoftly | The practice and theory of CLIL Love English: 10 things to see in London (magazine article) 'I love English': magazines designed for language learners that can be used in classroom as extra activities to add colour and motivated students. - talk about London - read about the 'top 10 things to see in London' - complete the activities Discussion: 1. 2. If the answer is yes proceed with the following questions: 3. 4. Reading: Scanning (tell students they have 2 minutes to quickly scan the pages and list the 10 things to see in London) Question: List the top 10 things to see in London? You can download the magazine's pages here:London 1London 2 London 3London 4 Reading for information ( Skimming :ask students to read again and complete the following activities. Vocabulary activities: 1. 2. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 3. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. or download the worksheet here:Closing the lesson:1.
How British English and American English are Different | Grammarly Blog Many Americans who love tea would turn up their noses at the idea of adding milk to it. Brits, on the other hand, are known for lacing their strong tea with milk. With or without milk, tea is tea. According to the Legends of America website, inhabitants of the New World first noticed that their English was different about one hundred years after settling Jamestown. American English Words Missing from British English Along with groundhogs and woodchucks, other living things earned uniquely American monikers. British Words Missing from American English Put on your anorak. Vocabulary Differences Other words exist in both languages, but they mean different things. Spelling One man is responsible for many of the spelling differences that exist between American and British English. Grammar In British English, you have to use the present perfect for recent actions that affect the present. I’ve broken your vase. I broke your vase. You have got much better at breaking things!
7+1 tips to make CLIL work with your class CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) has been adopted by a growing number of schools and language schools for a number of reasons, including more opportunities for language practice, motivation for learners who are interested in subjects other than English and developing 21st century skills. Yet, many educators often feel that the syllabus and previously followed practices, hinder CLIL and their students are deprived of the opportunity to reap benefits from its implementation. Indeed, habits from the past may jeopardize the efforts of the leadership and the teaching staff to facilitate learning and raise the standards. The following tips may help towards creating an environment that will allow CLIL to be fruitful and boost language production and reception : 1. Tests are tangible, measurable and go down well with parents who feel that their kids are closely monitored. 2. 3. Νο! 4. 5. 6. 7. Many parents ask students to read the text aloud at home and translate it word for word.
Vandana Shiva: Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest Today, at a time of multiple crises, we need to move away from thinking of nature as dead matter to valuing her biodiversity, clean water, and seeds. For this, nature herself is the best teacher. My ecological journey started in the forests of the Himalaya. My involvement in the contemporary ecology movement began with “Chipko,” a nonviolent response to the large-scale deforestation that was taking place in the Himalayan region. In the 1970s, peasant women from my region in the Garhwal Himalaya had come out in defense of the forests. Logging had led to landslides and floods, and scarcity of water, fodder, and fuel. Women knew that the real value of forests was not the timber from a dead tree, but the springs and streams, food for their cattle, and fuel for their hearths. A folk song of that period said:These beautiful oaks and rhododendrons, They give us cool water Don’t cut these trees We have to keep them alive. The women sang back in chorus:What do the forests bear? Beyond Monocultures