New Words in The Oxford Dictionary
……………….Manspreading!………………… Manspreading? Butt dialing? These are real words? Well, yes . . . and no.
75 Simple British Slang Phrases You Should Probably Start Using
Oh, the Brits. No-one can snark quite like they do, and there are certain turns of phrase that are so utterly delightful, the rest of the world really should sit up and take note. Below are just a few common British phrases that you might like to work into your daily vernacular, as they can pepper any conversation with a little extra something. Aggro: Aggressive/in someone’s face.“Are you having a laugh?”
English Vocabulary Exercises Online, Printable Worksheets for Teachers and Fun Games
ESL Lesson Plans & Resources for Kids Kiz School provides: Video Tutorials, PPT, Interactive Games & Quizzes, Printable PDF Worksheets & Flashcards, among others. You don't need to be a professional teacher to use our materials.It is an effective, affordable private and public teaching solution for parents and schools. English For Kids Free ESL for resources for kids are one of our best offers.
4 Awesome New Blooms Taxonomy Posters
I have been recently engaged in expanding Blooms Taxonomy section here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning to include new resources published for the first time. Blooms Taxonomy for The iPad and Blooms Taxonomy for The Web are the most recent additions in this regard. I am also working on Blooms Taxonomy for Android. Some of you send me emails asking why I don't cover Android in my posts as I do with iPad ( or iOS devices ).
7 Ways Students Use Diigo To Do Research and Collaborative Project Work
January 14, 2015 Diigo is an excellent social bookmarking tool that enable you to save, annotate, and share bookmarks. The power of Diigo lies in the distinctive features that it offers to teachers and educators. There is a special account for K-12 and higher-ed educators that empower registered teachers with a variety of tools and features. One of the best things you can do with the Educator account is creating a Diigo group for your class. You can do this without the need for students emails. You can also set the privacy settings of your group so that only you and your students can access and see what you share there.
The 50 most important English proverbs
The 50 most important English proverbs What are proverbs? Every culture has a collection of wise sayings that offer advice about how to live your life. These sayings are called "proverbs".
7 Awesome Posters for Language Teachers
January 23, 2015 Today I brought you a collection of some interesting infographics and posters particularly useful for English language teachers. I curated this collection from Larry Ferlazzo’s Pinterest board titled ”Useful Classroom Images”. This board contains over 5000 pins spanning multifarious topics and themes.
A List of The Best Free Digital Storytelling Tools for Teachers
Digital storytelling, the practice of combining narrative with digital content, is gaining more ground in the educational field.Many schools and educational centres all around the globe are including learning method in their curriculums and the results are really promising : more of students engagement and a bigger degree of motivation. Telling a story is a powerful way to communicate with others. Think about those moments when you would share a story about yourself with your students and how everyone of them is dailed in waiting on the next word to come out of your mouth. And when this storytelling is combined with a set of powerful digital tools it becomes a truly authentic learning experience that helps students develop a wide range of intellectual skills. Here some of the pluses of digital storytelling in education :
5 Ways To Use Word Clouds In The Classroom
Photo Courtesy of flickr and Sue Waters The popularity of word clouds remains pretty constant in education, and it’s not difficult to see why. They’re a great way for students to distil and summarize information. They help students get to the crux of an issue, sorting through important ideas and concepts quickly in order to see what’s important. And “see” is the operative word here, because word clouds are certainly nice to look at.
Making Words Stick: Memorizing GRE Vocabulary
Making Words Stick If you read this week’s posts, you know how to be a full-fledged word detective. You also have the vocabulary books that provide you with the best prep. Now, we need to talk about the process of getting words to stick in your head. Below is the magical formula for helping words stick.
What is the difference between idioms and figures of speech like similes, metaphors, and hyperbole?
What is the difference between idioms and figures of speech like similes, metaphors, and hyperbole? — Kenneth, Philippines Readers often ask about these terms.
11 Untranslatable Words From Other Cultures
This post originally appeared over on the Maptia Blog. The team at Maptia are creating a beautiful platform for telling stories about places (launching soon!) and you can check out their ‘See The World’ manifesto here. The relationship between words and their meaning is a fascinating one, and linguists have spent countless years deconstructing it, taking it apart letter by letter, and trying to figure out why there are so many feelings and ideas that we cannot even put words to, and that our languages cannot identify. The idea that words cannot always say everything has been written about extensively — as Friedrich Nietzsche said, “Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon the absolute truth.”
20 Ways Teachers Can Use Edmodo
In this post, I am sharing with you some interesting resources created by the folks in Edmodo to help teachers worldwide better leverage the educational potential of Edomodo in their classrooms. The first part includes some interactive free PDF guides available for free download. These guides include illustrations, tips. ideas, and several links. In the second part of this post, I am sharing with you a post first published in Edmodo blog featuring 20 ways Teachers can use Edmodo. Check out the PDF guides:
Vocabulary Exercises Teaching Matters
WebEnglish.se has compiled a list of 20 vocabulary exercises to practise or rehearse new words without bilingual translations. The aim is to provide the teacher with a variation of vocabulary practices and to reduce the use of translations in class. WebEnglish.se complies with the research that promotes learning new vocabulary in context and through various activities, diminishing the use of the students’ first language. Word by word translations can misinform the students of the word’s usage, variations in meaning and connotations. It also gives the pupils with another mother tongue an obvious disadvantage.
