The Olympics | Teaching Ideas Join our email newsletter to receive free updates! Close Search for Ideas and Resources Filter Results Menu The Olympics Celebrate the Olympics with our popular teaching materials. Filter by age Filter by subject (Select all / Select none) Filter by type Filter by theme Ways to use the Olympics in the Classroom Use the Olympic Games as the starting point for learning in your classroom with our ENORMOUS collection of teaching ideas, activities and classroom resources! View The Olympics Pack Use our huge collection of Olympics-themed resources in your classroom with our free pack. View Rio 2016 Banner If you're teaching your children about the Olympics, add our 'Rio 2016' banner to your classroom display boards! View Olympics 2016 Banner Celebrate the Olympics in 2016 by adding this free printable banner to your classroom display board! View The Olympians A short film that sees the Gods of Olympus descend upon central London to battle it out in a trial of athleticism to light the torch. View View View View View View
Language Timeline The English language is a vast flea market of words, handed down, borrowed or created over more than 2000 years. And it is still expanding, changing and trading. Our language is not purely English at all - it is a ragbag of diverse words that have come to our island from all around the world. Words enter the language in all sorts of ways: with invaders, migrants, tradesmen; in stories, artworks, technologies and scientific concepts; with those who hold power, and those who try to overthrow the powerful. View the chart below to get an overview of some of the many chapters in the history of the English language. Celts 500BC-43BC Romans 43BC-c.450AD Anglo Saxons 449AD St Augustine 597 AD Vikings 789AD Normans 1066 100 Years War 1337-1450s Renaissance 1476-1650 1700s Industrial Revolution 1760-1800s 1900s - Present Day References: The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language by David Crystal Words in Time by Geoffrey Hughes
School Start and Planning – WebEnglish.se WebEnglish.se School Start Pages have been updated. The following School Start materials in WebEnglish.se are there to ease your workload:1 School Start 1-6 and School Start 7-9 will help your new classes to get acquainted, inspire the students to believe in themselves and teach them to be good language learners.2 Planning Page presents a thematic view on planning based on WebEnglish.se themes and gives you printable and editable templates to use when planning together with your students and/or colleagues.3 My Book About Me gives ideas to start the term with young beginners, year 1-3. For more new materials, see Updates
Etymology: Languages that have contributed to English vocabulary over time. In Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English, I examine how words borrowed from different languages have influenced English throughout its history. The above feature summarizes some of the main data from the book, focusing on the 14 sources that have given the most words to English, as reflected by the new and revised entries in the Oxford English Dictionary. Using the date buttons at the top of the graphic, you can compare the impact that different languages have made on English over time. In the "per period" view, you can see the proportions of words coming into English from each source in 50-year slices from 1150 up to the present day. Compare, for instance, how the input from German has grown and then declined again from 1800 to the present day. (The earliest period, pre-1150, is much longer than 50 years, because more precise dating of words from this early stage in the history of English is very problematic.) A version of this post appeared on Oxford Dictionaries.
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Do you speak Uglish? How English has evolved in Uganda Please don’t dirten my shirt with your muddy hands. Stop cowardising and go and see that girl. Don’t just beep her again, bench her. Typos? No, we’re speaking Uglish (pronounced you-glish), a Ugandan form of English influenced by Luganda and other local dialects, which has produced hundreds of words with their own unique meanings. Some will be immediately obvious to English speakers: dirten, meaning to make dirty; cowardising, to behave like a coward. Others offer small insights into youth culture: beep – meaning to ring someone but to hang up quickly before the person answers. Now, Bernard Sabiti, a Ugandan cultural commentator has recorded these colloquialisms in a new book which attempts to unlock what he calls “one of the funniest and strangest English varieties in the world”. Working as a consultant for international NGOs, Sabiti kept being asked “what kind of English do Ugandans speak?” The result? He also credits local musicians for introducing a number of words into the lexicon.
Themes 7-9 – WebEnglish.se King Arthur: Legend of the Sword Now that 'King Arthur: Legend of the Sword' is hitting the cinemas around the world, WebEnglish.se presents a new Theme Page of King Arthur with all the usual ingredients for lower intermediate and intermediate level students, i.e. year 5-9 in Swedish Compulsory Schools. The theme page is created around a downloadable… In "Teaching Matters" WebEnglish.se News During this Summer Break, WebEnglish.se has once again undergone a cleaning and updating phase. In "Featured Post" Halloween Scare WebEnglish.se has updated and added links to the Halloween theme.
25 maps that explain the English language English is the language of Shakespeare and the language of Chaucer. It’s spoken in dozens of countries around the world, from the United States to a tiny island named Tristan da Cunha. It reflects the influences of centuries of international exchange, including conquest and colonization, from the Vikings through the 21st century. 1) Where English comes from English, like more than 400 other languages, is part of the Indo-European language family, sharing common roots not just with German and French but with Russian, Hindi, Punjabi, and Persian. 2) Where Indo-European languages are spoken in Europe today Saying that English is Indo-European, though, doesn’t really narrow it down much. 3) The Anglo-Saxon migration Here’s how the English language got started: After Roman troops withdrew from Britain in the early 5th century, three Germanic peoples — the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes — moved in and established kingdoms. The next source of English was Old Norse. 7) The colonization of America
Grades K-1: First-Day Projects Just Like Home 3 ways to ease first-day jitters To create a soothing environment, play soft music as your students arrive. Choose a piece that is significant to you to give students an idea of who you are. Begin the day with a good book. Splat the Cat, by Rob Scotton, is the story of a cat who is incredibly worried about his first day of school. Yes, You Can! Standard Met: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.1 What you need: Construction paper, crayons, chart paper or poster board What to do: At the start of the year, Tammy McMorrow, a first-grade teacher at Indian Creek Elementary in Kuna, Idaho, asks kids to do things that are out of their comfort zone, from reading challenging books to following new rules. McMorrow has students write the word can on a piece of construction paper. Happy Handprints Standard Met: McREL Visual Arts Standard 1 (Understands and applies media, techniques, and processes related to the visual arts) A Classroom Family Tree DIY Rule Book Choose Your Own Teacher
The History of English - How New Words Are Created The drift of word meanings over time often arises, often but not always due to catachresis (the misuse, either deliberate or accidental, of words). By some estimates, over half of all words adopted into English from Latin have changed their meaning in some way over time, often drastically. For example, smart originally meant sharp, cutting or painful; handsome merely meant easily-handled (and was generally derogatory); bully originally meant darling or sweetheart; sad meant full, satiated or satisfied; and insult meant to boast, brag or triumph in an insolent way. A more modern example is the changing meaning of gay from merry to homosexual (and, in some circles in more recent years, to stupid or bad). Some words have changed their meanings many times. Some words have become much more specific than their original meanings. Some words came to mean almost the complete opposite of their original meanings.
100 Best Read-Aloud Books - Scholastic Written by Doreen Rappaport | Illustrated by | Photographs by | 3-5, 3-5 | 6-9, 6-9 | Biography, United States, Multiculturalism, In this biography, the information is easily digestible—it’s done in picture-book style. The author uses a unique narrative technique, using some of his most famous quotes, to tell the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “I was lucky enough to meet Doreen Rappaport,” says Brower-Cohen. Publisher: Hyperion Book CH Awards: Caldecott Honor Book, Coretta Scott King Award