10 add-ons to Google Classroom you MUST try - Ditch That Textbook Google Classroom’s basic features are powerful. Take it to the next level with some add-ons created just for teachers and students. The basic functions of Google Drive and Google Classroom are only the starting point for the innovative and creative uses one can use in the classroom. Alice Keeler, my co-author in our upcoming book Ditch That Homework, proves that again and again. Typing Games Sense-lang Free Typing Games Sense-lang offers multiple free typing games and English games. Each typing game was exclusively developed by our programmers for the website. There are 3 types of learn type games: Games which practice letters separately.
The Seven Best Short Films for ELT Students - Kieran Donaghy I’ve been writing lesson plans designed around short films for my website Film English for six years. Teachers often ask me how I find the short films I use in my lesson plans. The answer is quite simple: I’ve watched literally thousands of short films and developed an instinct for the type of engaging and simple short films which will work in the ELT classroom. In this article I’d like to share what for me are the seven best short films for the language classroom. Free English Reading comprehension tests and exercises online Reading comprehension is also an important part when you take an English test. Reading comprehension test can help you to improve vocabulary, grammar, and logical thought ability. There are some tips for you to improve reading skills:
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Exercices Dactylo - citations, extraits... Typing test rules If you do NOT fix the errors, a penalty will be added to your final WPM score. To fix the errors, press the backspace key. The timer start when you start typing. However, if you wait more than 3 seconds, the timer starts anyway. Get rid of the quotes you don't like. Free Bingo Board Maker, bingo board templates with images or text, customizable bingo boards to print for preschool, kindergarten teachers, elementary school teachers and language teachers to make resources for lessons, lesson plans and K-6 printable materials for classes. The 3x3 bingo board maker and 4x4 bingo board generators are a bingo game makers that allows you to create bingo boards for vocabulary practice using images. You can select the image you want to use and type in any text you'd like. So, you can choose from 1,000s of images to create the perfect bingo game board. It's super simple, easy to use, but very powerful.
Flipped classroom project (OLT) - Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation - University of Queensland In 2012–2017, the Australian Government Office for Teaching and Learning (OLT) funded a project titled Radical Transformation: Reimagining Engineering Education Through Flipping the Classroom in a Global Learning Partnership. [This is an archived project. For up-to-date information on flipped classroom and blended learning, please visit the blended learning page on this site.] Led by UQ, the project explored transformative course development through flipped classroom models. Character Scrapbook Teaching Guide The Character Scrapbook and this teacher's guide will work with any fiction or nonfiction book, and can be used by students individually or as a whole class. However you choose to use this activity, it's a great way to engage students and help them form a deeper understanding of a book's characters. Also see the book-specific Because of Winn-Dixie Character Scrapbook, part of the Because of Winn-Dixie Flashlight Readers activity. Part I: Class Discussion of Character Descriptions Step 1: Write the following literary terms on the whiteboard or chart paper: character, plot, setting, and theme. Define each of these terms for the class.