The Best ESL/EFL Blogs “The Best…” list is going to be an expanding one. These are the ESL/EFL blogs that I subscribe to now, but I’m sure there are many more out there that I just don’t know about… I hope you’ll contribute their url addresses in the comments section! The criteria I used included that they are updated regularly (more-or-less), their focus is ESL/EFL, and that they provide information that I’ve found useful in my teaching. Here are my picks for The Best ESL/EFL Blogs (not in any order): David Deubelbeiss ELL Classroom Learning the Language Adult Education and Technology Life Is A Feast Learning Technology Blog Nik’s Daily English Activities Nik’s Quick Shout Technology News Burcu Akyol’s EFL Blog Jamie Keddie Kalinago English Six Things TEFLtastic Carl Dowse Movie Segments to Assess Grammar Goals Seth Dickens Carla Arena Think And Dream In English Teacher Boot Camp Ozge Karaoglu’s Blog The English Blog English Raven Marmara Elt/EFL Resources everythingESL Marisa Constantinides – TEFL Matters Ken Wilson’s Blog Related
ChatterKid Before you can make a video, you need a picture of what you want to make talk in the video. As long as you have one in your camera roll, you are good! On the opening screen, tap Take Photo. You can take a picture within the app. Or, you can tap on the photos button in the bottom left corner to pick one from your camera roll. Tap NEXT in the top right corner. Next, it's time to add your voices! You can listen to it here by tapping the green play button. The next page is optional. On the next page, you can play it again if you want. [Sometimes it gets hung up here and never goes. BBC Learning English Six Things Fun Vocabulary Review Game –and a Brain Game, too | Teacher 2 Teacher Yesterday, in our last class of the semester, we played a really fun and simple vocabulary game. It was a great hit for the students and all the other staff who came by to join the laughter. 1. Assign a topic you studied in class and provide a list of beginning letters. Here are a couple of examples: 2. 3. 4. * Note: If words in this category start with a digraph, I supply the digraph- ch, wh, qu, th, sh-not just the single first letter. The Brain Science This activity tickles the brain. Like this: Like Loading...
Nik's Learning Technology Blog The Triptico Blog – Page 2 – The Triptico Academy As this is the first blog post of 2016: Happy New Year – and thank you for visiting the Triptico blog. There will be many changes to the Triptico website over the next few weeks – including the addition of two brand new resources – but today I want to tell you about an exciting new feature. One of the more common questions that teachers ask is: ‘Is it possible to share a Triptico activity that I have created with my students?’ Well, the answer is now: ‘Yes!’ A new ‘share’ option has been added which allows you to publish an activity (for anybody at all to view) for 24 hours. This means that, if you have a class that you would like to share an activity with, you can publish the activity and provide the class with a link to it. So, how do you use this new feature? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. There it is – yet another easy way to share the Triptico activities that you have created! You can use this feature to share activities with your students – but you can also use it to introduce Triptico to others.
Word Family Framework Word Family Framework Submitted by admin on 19 July, 2012 - 11:52 The Word Family Framework (WFF) places 22,000 words on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). It shows how words within the same family are placed at different levels and is aimed at teachers who can use it to plan courses, syllabi and lessons. What is the Word Family Framework (WFF)? The WFF is a searchable resource for teachers and learners of English that consists of over 22,000 vocabulary items arranged according to six levels aligned to the Common European Framework of Reference. What can the WFF be used for? The WFF can be used by institutions, teachers and learners to construct target vocabularies for individual learning, syllabus and lesson planning, materials design and exam preparation. ‘Vertical searches’ ? ? ‘Horizontal searches’ ? ? ? How can the WFF be searched? The WFF can be searched in three main ways: 1. 2. 3. How does the WFF link to the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR)? ?
Teacher Reboot Camp Learn English with Friends #5: Joey Gets Locked in a Cupboard Tons of storage compartments Tons = lots of. This is very common in spoken English, but is a little informal (don’t use it in meetings!). Here are more examples: There were tons of people at the party last night.I have tons of work to do before Friday. My roommate bet me five bucks that I couldn’t To bet someone something is to risk money against someone else on the basis of a future event. I bet you 10 quid (pounds in British English) that Liverpool beat Arsenal.I’m going to bet $1,000 on black at the casino tomorrow! We can also use this verb when we feel sure about something: I bet it rains tomorrow.I bet this place gets really busy at the weekends. Five bucks = five dollars. It was funny til’ I started feeling like I was in a coffin Joey uses the relaxed form of “until.” If I can’t, I’ll knock five bucks off the price of the unit Joey uses the first conditional here as he is talking about a particular situation in the future. I told ya’ I told ya’ = I told you.
Ellclassroom Over the course of my 15 years of teaching in the classroom, there has been a continual debate over management vs. engagement. The argument is that if you create an engaging lesson, then management issues will fade away like a bad stain in the washing machine. The opposite has also been stated, if you have good management then “engagement” (which has been confused with compliance, in this instance), also increases. A classroom should have good student management in place, but it should also include lessons/activities that are engaging. The Management Side: It has been my stance for years that each teacher must decide for themselves what type of management system they want to have in their classroom. One final thought on management – there are many different ideas on what classroom management could and should look like (some educators create management plans in partnership with their students), but always make sure it is something that works for you and that you can live with.
The English Blog Trying to Teach: Why grammar comics are amazing...and where to find them Comics are awesome. They just are. They make students laugh (always a plus) help visual learners, and tend to have very succinct summarizations of otherwise complicated grammar topics. If nothing else, they give examples that grab student's attention. But where to find these miraculous creatures? You can always resort to google. The downside is that you tend to get a lot of stock images and irrelevant pictures. I tend to read and every day and Pin comics that I know will work well for me, my classes or topics that come up a lot. I also keep up on as they tend to have a lot of good stuff on you vs your, they're vs their and other common mistakes that your students will relate to (and have probably already seen as they love 9gag) The comic above is from Boggleton, who has grammar comics involving misused words and participial phrases as well as full on grammar explanations. I talked about GrammarCat before.
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