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Please take a moment to visit my other websites when you get a chance: This blog is designed mainly for beginner French students and their teachers. You will notice that most of the websites are interactive, free, ad-free, and do not require any registration. This collection can be used by teachers in class, or for individual students on their own computers, either in school or at home. Please let me know if any of the links do not work or if there is anything inappropriate. Also please email me if you have an interactive website to recommend: sylviaduckworth@rogers.com.

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eTools for Language Teachers: Videos Click here for a document explaining how to create your own YouTube channel.Click here for a document explaining how to download YouTube videos. 1. My YouTube videos 3. Articles for complete beginners in French (Fle A1) "You have been a fantastic teacher and a friend. My move to France would have been positively awful had I not had such a wonderful tuition by you. You are truly an energetic, interesting person who makes people at ease and comfortable in your company.

eThemes-By Grade University of Missouri eThemes Your source for content-rich, kid-safe online resources. By Grade grade 1 Top 30+ Open Wikis Every Educator Should Know About How Students Benefit From Using Social Media 12.65K Views 0 Likes A lot of criticism has been leveled at social media and the effect it has on the way students process and retain information, as well as how distracting it can be. However, social media offers plenty of opportunities for learning and interactivity, and if you take a moment to think about it, it's not too hard to see how students benefit from using social media. 3 Tech Tips Your Grandma Could Teach You 2.02K Views 0 Likes

Blog French Sports Vocabulary: 200 Football Terms and Expressions Sports is easily among the topics that people love to discuss, argue, butt heads, or bond over immediately like brothers-in-arms. Whether or not you’re in a pub in a French-speaking city, in the dining table discussing with French-speaking friends, or watching a World Cup game in your couch, French words for sports can surely come […] Continue reading Vote for Talk in French Voting is very simple.

Fiona's French Classroom Finding Images for Classroom Use June 18, 2013 Fiona Boughey Uncategorized DP, IBO, MYP, photos, pictures, visual Teaching the International Baccalaureate curriculum for languages means that images are used for stimulus quite frequently. The MYP has recently introduced a new Visual Interpretation objective. The 33 Digital Skills Every 21st Century Teacher should Have By EdTech Team Updated on march 2, 2015 : The original list that was created in 2011 comprised 33 skills , after reviewing it we decided to do some merging and finally ended up with the 20 skills below. The 21st century teacher should be able to : 1- Create and edit digital audio Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill :Free Audio Tools for Teachers 2- Use Social bookmarking to share resources with and between learners Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill : A List of Best Bookmarking Websites for Teachers 3- Use blogs and wikis to create online platforms for students Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill : Great Tools to Create Protected Blogs and Webpages for your Class

The Differentiator Try Respondo! → ← Back to Byrdseed.com French War and Military Vocabulary Unfortunately, to follow the news in French, this bilingual French English war and military vocabulary may come in handy. War = La Guerre (not la gare) La guerre – war. Watch out for the pronunciation since I hear many students mistake “la gare” (A sound = the train station) with “la guerre” (ay sound). Peace = La Paix This weird French word ends in a silent X, and is pronounced like “pay”. Blogger “Next Blog” Solution? So I’ve been bumming since the Blogger Beta went live and the old hack that would get rid of that potentially dangerous (at least for classroom teachers) “Next Blog” button from your blog stopped working. But yesterday in one of my presentations here at NCCE, Glenn Malone offered up a solution. Problem is, I can’t get it to work on my MAC, but I think it might be user error on my part.

free.ed.gov FREE Features These features originally appeared on the FREE.ED.gov features blog. The features highlight resources and ideas related to holidays, awareness months, anniversaries and seasonal topics. January 7 Tips for Learning French Grammar I Wish I'd Known Earlier Struggling to learn French grammar? Or just looking for tips to accelerate your French learning? You’ve come to the right place. Previously, we’ve covered useful French idioms and everyday French phrases. Today we present seven tips I wish I’d heard when I first started learning French grammar. Games That Work The Language Teacher Toolkit by Steve Smith and Gianfranco Conti is now available from Amazon. I don’t think that you have to use games to teach classes successfully. Inexperienced teachers should be wary of using games if class control is still shaky or if you have an unusually difficult class. I believe classes appreciate teachers who make them work and with whom they get on, not teachers who play games. That said, games bring variety and a bit of fun to lessons. They can be very motivational.

Teaching English Units This archive of student work is among the most creative Teaching English resources you're likely to find on the Web. In these pages you can find fresh solutions for old problems, discover new directions to take your classes, or just have fun perusing some innovative unit lesson plans. Units Listed Alphabetically by Subject: