Family Yearbook
This family yearbook makes a great keepsake that memorializes your year together. Making a family yearbook is a great way to document activities and reflect on the past in a collective and creative setting. Games, trips, recitals, parties, milestones passed, and challenges met over the last year are all worthy to be put in print, and after a few afternoons of work on the project, you'll have preserved these memories for generations to come! Make a family yearbook with your kid to celebrate the passing of a great year. What You Need: Two 8” x 11” sheets of poster board (or one 16” x 22” sheet) Blank sheets of computer or laid paper Scissors Scotch tape or glue Black sharpie Colored markers (in lieu of markers, you can type text on your word processor and cut and paste onto pages) What You Do: Pre-production: Discuss what “categories” to include, such as activities, holidays, and travel. This project requires a little work, a ton of creativity and plenty of laughs.
Perfect ESL Lesson Plan
ATTN: Newbie ESL teachers. I have a story for you that should sound familiar. My first six months teaching English in Korea were a disaster. I had no training, and no idea what I was doing. A blank sheet of paper had to become 45 minutes of constructive ESL teaching. After a lot of trial and error, I finally figured out a simple recipe to create ESL lesson plans that work. How to Create an (Almost) Perfect ESL Lesson Plan from Scratch The challenges of ESL lesson planning While beginning to teach English in Korea, I only kept my job because of my incredibly patient co-teachers. What made it so hard? With no educational training, I was expected to teach English to Korean middle school students without a book. If any of this sounds familiar, then this blog is for you. Questions to ask before making a lesson plan Give these questions some thought before you outline your ESL lesson plan. 1. 2. 3. The 6 crucial stages of ESL lesson planning Step 1: Decide on your lesson plan objectives 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Ideas for songs to teach English grammar - TeflTunes.com
ESL and EFL teachers looking for inspiration for lesson planning will find this list of songs to teach English grammar we’ve compiled a useful resource. Highlighted are songs available as complete ESL song lesson plans here on tefltunes.com. Songs for teaching present simple Eric Clapton / Wonderful Tonight (lyrics) The Beatles / She Loves You (lyrics) Bette Middler / From A Distance (lyrics) Songs for teaching present continuous Rod Stewart / Sailing (lyrics) Fool’s Garden / Lemon Tree (lyrics) Suzanne Vega / Tom’s Diner (lyrics) Songs for teaching past simple The Beatles / Yellow Submarine (lyrics) Gloria Gaynor / I Will Survive (lyrics) Celine Dion / Because You Loved Me (lyrics) Songs for teaching past continuous John Lennon / Jealous Guy (lyrics) Oasis / Champagne Supernova (lyrics) Aerosmith / Cryin’ (lyrics) Songs for teaching present perfect Songs for teaching present perfect continuous Songs for teaching past perfect Songs for teaching used to Songs for teaching going to future
English Listening Lesson Library Online
English Listening Lesson Library Online Learn English naturally by listening to over 300 speakers from 100 countries with our free video and audio lessons! What's New This Week Video 1424: What foods do you love? Video 1422: Were you naughty as a child? Video 1421: Are you good with children? Video 1418: What to do in France and Denmark? Video 1415: What chores do you hate doing? Video 1412: Do you follow a healthy diet? (Check out all the new videos) Danu Widuri Views 1410 Supper in Sri Lanka Views 1409 Lunch in Indonesia Christina Video Extra What is the best way to learn English? Abi. / Jeremy Video Extra What is the secret to learning English? Erina VideoExtra What is you biggest regret? PernaisDoron Video 1401 What sports do you like to watch? Seiji Video 1402 What extreme sport would you like to try? Micky Gaew Video 1403 When do you like to dress up? Nuri Video 1404 What is your best quality? Sorie Mark Video 1405 Are you a budget traveler? Looking for More? Free Printable Lessons Word Jumble Grammar Puzzle
Cause and Effect Game
Bring the fun of card games and comprehension practice together in an innovative way! A great indoor game for older students, this engaging cause and effect activity quizzes your child on cause and effect relationships, and challenges him to use creative thinking skills too! What You Do: Step 1: Begin by refreshing your child’s memory on cause-and-effect. Students need to understand this relationship in order to make logical story connections. Step 2: Both you and your child should take a sheet of construction paper or other sturdy paper and set up two columns with a line down the middle. Step 3: Cut up your papers so that each cause and each effect is on its own card. Step 4: Play continues like the card game “Gin,” but with a twist. Players may match a cause or effect in their hand with an effect or cause on the upturned middle card, or draw a hidden card from the pile. Wondering what makes a match? Examples:
Six types of task for TBL
In this article we look at different types of task, and see which kinds are most often used in textbooks. I also suggest ways of adjusting them so that they stimulate more opportunities for meaning-focused interaction, and encourage learners to give longer responses. Finally I show how a graded set of tasks can be developed on a theme. Identifying task-like activitiesIn my first article Criteria for identifying tasks for TBL, we looked at six questions that gave us criteria to help us identify tasks and ‘upgrade' potential task-like activities into tasks. Pre-task activities,Task - Planning - Report cycle,Post-task activities as illustrated in the activity Planning a class night out. However, tasks tend to come in various disguises. For example, in ‘Total English’, a text-book for beginners, the activity: ‘Who is your favourite 20th Century icon? Three types of taskActivities like the following generally have the potential to become effective tasks: Examples: Three more type tasks Example:
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Top 10 Ways to Wake-up Students in Class
The following is a guest post from Michelle Doman, a 7th and 8th grade Language Arts teacher at Brandon Middle School in Wisconsin. Top 10 Ways to Wake-up Students in Class Many people get a little squeamish, wiggly, and offer a scrunched expression when I respond to the question, “What grades do you teach?” I teach middle school, and with heart and honesty, I find great joys (and challenges) in teaching the group referred to as “tweens” and adolescents. So, I invite you into the quirky world of middle school. Here are the Top 10 Ways to Wake-up Students in Class... 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. If anyone has more ideas to capture the wondering, daydreaming, (hormonal) minds of middle school students, I would love to read about them. Related Articles 10 MORE Ways to Wake-up Students in Class About the Author Michelle Doman is a 7th and 8th grade Language Arts teacher at Brandon Middle School in Wisconsin's Rosendale-Brandon School District. P.S.
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