Nik's QuickShout: Illustrate Poems & Create Short Image Based Narrative
Pages Thursday, 31 August 2017 Illustrate Poems & Create Short Image Based Narrative Commaful is an interesting web based tool for combining text and images into beautifully visual short stories or poem. Once you have signed in you can start to create your narrative just by clicking on 'Create a Story' and typing in your text. You can them either search or choose from the images selected and combine the images with the text.
Child Grows up With 2 Gorillas. 12 Years Later, They Reunite In The Wild. I’m Speechless.
For 15 years, conservationist Damian Aspinall has been working to reintroduce captive gorillas to the wild. In 2003, Damian released Djalta and Bimms — two western lowland gorillas he raised from when they were babies — into the forests of West Africa. Over the years, Damian revisited the pair of gorillas, but his daughter Tansy hadn’t seen them in 12 years. So, in 2014, Damian brought Tansy into the wild to try and find Djalta and Bimms. He wasn’t sure if they would remember Tansy, the once little girl who was raised right alongside her gorilla friends. “I was considering whether it was safe for Tansy to come on land and see Djalta and Bimms,” Damian says in the following video.
4 things to do before you start writing an essay
As tempting as it might be to just launch into the process of writing, there are important steps to take before actually setting pen to paper (or fingers to keyboard, as it were). These four steps in essay preparation should give you a solid footing before you start the essay-writing process. 1.
Guest Post: Top Websites To Use When Teaching Writing. – EDTECH 4 BEGINNERS
It’s that time of the year again when I go through my bookmarks and Diigo lists and try to choose websites I like when teaching writing: this prepares me well for the upcoming school year. Most of the time, I end up adding even more sites to the existing lists! The sites listed below are brilliant and children love it when I use them. My Top 5!
How to Learn English with Movies
What you will learn: • Why learn English with films?• 5 tips to learn English through movies• Top 10 best films for learning English• Learn English with short films• How to talk about movies in English Why learn English with films? Watching films is a lot more fun than studying with a textbook!
And the Oscar goes to…
This is a ready-made, video-based lesson you can use with your upper-intermediate / advanced students. Copy and paste whatever you want, to your heart’s content! It’s yours to use. The activities have never been tested, so any feedback is most welcome. A Discuss 1-6 in pairs. Any surprising answers?
Editor’s checklist: 8 ways to improve your nonfiction writing in 10 minutes
Ready to improve your next blog post, school essay or how-to article? Try these self-editing tips after you write a first draft: Find the main idea + put it first. Writers frequently throw away a first paragraph on throat-clearing, explanatory exercises. Whether you’re blogging or writing another piece of editorial content, you can probably cut the first paragraph and lead with the 2nd — try it and see.
The Writing Process and 13 Tips to Raise your Essay Score
Writing is a process. For some students it might seem like a daunting task, but if you look at it as a succession of small steps to follow instead of looking at it as the big final product, writing can be fun and easy. Useful Links: Part 1. The Writing Process Brainstorm for ideas
Some of The Best Tools for Creating Video Lessons
Below is a collection of some great web tools you can use to create video lessons. As we have stated elsewhere, ‘The nature of a video lesson differs according to the purpose for which it is created; it can be an explanatory video, a step by step tutorial, a review, a demo, a recorded video presentation and many more. Video lessons are ideal for flipped classroom and can be incorporated in almost any learning situation.
In The 1950s, Wives Were Expected To Do THIS For Their Husbands. This Is Crazy?!?
It’s so fascinating to learn about how people used to live — especially when we discover that not much has really changed. However, sometimes you come across some old traditions that you simply can’t believe people ever followed — like these odd dating rituals throughout history. But what women in the 1950s were expected to do for their husbands? Well, those traditions have certainly flown right out the window! In May of 1955, Housekeeping Monthly published an article entitled, “The Good Wife’s Guide,” detailing all the ways that a wife should act and how best she can be a partner to her husband and a mother to her children.
CAE Writing Part 1: A Formal Essay
Follow me on twitter @RobbioDobbio Photo Credit: This is a lesson plan to help students approach and complete the new formal essay task in the CAE writing paper.
Quiz: Fixing Most Common Mistakes Seen in Intermediate Written Exams
I must be doing something wrong. On second thought, perhaps my students are doing something wrong. Do you know when your mum tells you off over and over again for not tidying your room and you just nod your head, promise it will never happen again and then, for some unknown reason, you seem unable to keep your promise?
