Downloadable lesson materials CrowdWish Level: B2/Upper Intermediate and up Skills: Speaking, reading and listening Language: idioms (dream come true, like magic, step in the right direction etc) and wish (including wish + would) ELT Resourceful – Crowdwish The lesson is about a new online service, CrowdWish, which invites people to post their wishes on their website. You’ve got to have a dream Level: B1/Intermediate and up Skills: Speaking and writing Language: reason and result linkers, adjectives of personality A free downloadable lesson, based around a Russian advertising video for shampoo. ELT Resourceful – You’ve got to have a dream Orangutan asks for help in sign language Skills: speaking and listening Language: environment vocabulary (e.g. deforestation, consumers, sustainable) ELT Resourceful – Orangutan asks for help in sign language The lesson starts with an activity to find out what students know about orangutans. Gratitude Skills: Reading, speaking, listening and writing ELT Resourceful-Gratitude A good deed To R.P.
Internet TESL Journal (For ESL/EFL Teachers) Why Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning Differently Copyright © 2013 NPR. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. On a holiday Monday, it's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep. Today in Your Health, how different cultures think about the struggle with schoolwork. In this encore presentation, NPR's Alix Spiegel compares learning in the United States with learning in Japan and China. ALIX SPIEGEL, BYLINE: In 1979, when psychologist Jim Stigler was still a graduate student studying teaching, he went on a trip to Japan to do some research and found himself sitting in the back row of a crowded fourth grade math class. JIM STIGLER: The teacher was trying to teach the class how to draw three dimensional cubes on paper. SPIEGEL: In America, it's usually the best kid in the class who's invited to the board. STIGLER: I was sitting there starting to perspire because I was really empathizing for this kid. STIGLER: They've taught them that suffering can be a good thing.
Language Teaching ideas | Talking Dice We hear this sort of thing everyday ... Drilling vocabulary can be so boring How do I get my students to talk in the target language? I need quick and easy games for practicing French, German, Spanish etc. My classes are mixed ability Simple example, teaching body parts in French Let's say you're teaching body parts in French. OK. Mon pied Mes yeux Mes oreilles ... etc. Isn't that more fun than drilling? Now, what if I gave you dice with pictures in 25 different curriculum topics. The teaching ideas and teacher resources you'll find on this website will show you how to use Talking Dice to teach any first or second language, quickly and easily, with no extra planning, and minimal teacher input. Talking Dice fit into your current lessons in minutes. OK, I want to get started? To get started , you just need some dice topics and a bit of imagination. Single dice topics in packs of six Classroom sets Essentials pack of 9 dice (home use) Starter pack of 25 dice (small groups, 1 on 1, SEN)
New Year's Resolutions with Bob Dylan You are going todiscuss new year's resolutions listen to some popular new year's resolutions and do a gap-filllisten to a radio clip about the history of new year's resolutions and do a comprehension quiz 1) Discuss Do you make new year resolutions? 2) Listen Listen to Bob Dylan on the Theme Time Radio Hour read the most popular new year's resolutions. What are they? Listen again Fill in the gaps with the right word 3) Discuss What do you think of the resolutions in the list? 4) Listen Making New Year's Resolutions dates back to medieval times ( = from the 5th to the 15th centuries AD) What sorts of resolutions do you think people were making in medieval times? Listen again and do the quiz below Printable worksheets here 5) Discuss Do you think making a resolution can predict the future? Who is Bob Dylan? Here is one of Bob Dylan's most famous songs. You can double click on any word to see a definition What do you think he means? More Related Posts More music related posts More Bob
Business English Grammar Lessons 'Because I Had a Turban' Printer-friendly version In American society, as in many others, religion shapes and informs everything from our language to our social habits. For us, one particular religion plays the hegemonic role: Christianity. It is celebrated both in our calendars — where school breaks often coincide with Christmas and Easter, but rarely with the major holidays of other religions — and in our curricula, through "seasonal" art projects and activities like Easter egg drawings and "holiday" pageants. Christianity is present in the turns of phrase from "turning the other cheek" and being a "good Samaritan," to being a "sacrificial lamb." Taken together, these activities and experiences cause students who identify with Christianity to find their identity affirmed in school. My research into the life experiences of Hindu, Muslim and Sikh students of Indian American backgrounds uncovered the hidden cost of this "normalcy" in public schools. Consider the voice of a 13-year-old Hindu girl from Ohio: 1. 2. 3.
Free English Lessons | English Grammar, Vocabulary, Common Mistakes... | Absolutenglish All that glitters is not gold Meaning Not everything that is shiny and superficially attractive is valuable. Origin The original form of this phrase was 'all that glisters is not gold'. The 'glitters' version long ago superseded the original and is now almost universally used. Shakespeare is the best-known writer to have expressed the idea that shiny things aren't necessarily precious things. O hell! Various different ways of expressing the idea that 'all that glitters/glisters is not gold' were in general circulation well before Shakespeare's day and it was a common enough notion to have been called proverbial by the 16th century. The 'glitters' version of this phrase is so long established as to be perfectly acceptable - especially as 'glisters' and 'glitters' mean the same thing. For you may palm upon us new for old: All, as they say, that glitters, is not gold. See other phrases and sayings from Shakespeare. See also: the List of Proverbs.
W-APT W-APT stands for the WIDA-ACCESS Placement Test. It is an English language proficiency "screener" test given to incoming students who may be designated as English language learners. It assists educators with programmatic placement decisions such as identification and placement of ELLs. The W-APT is one component of WIDA's comprehensive assessment system. Features W-APT test items are written from the model performance indicators of WIDA's five English Language Proficiency (ELP) standards: Social & Instructional Language Language of Language Arts Language of Mathematics Language of Science Language of Social Studies Test forms are divided into five grade-level clusters: Kindergarten Grades 1-2 Grades 3-5 Grades 6-8 Grades 9-12 Each form of the test assesses the four language domains of Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing. The Kindergarten W-APT The Kindergarten W-APT is meant to be administered to second semester preK, K, and first semester 1st grade students. Cost Purpose and Use
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