Wednesday, October 7, 2009
DOWNLOAD AND PRINT THIS OUT
WHY? Games are fun and motivational. They increase student talk time (production).
Visuals add context to the language learning. They are quick and [...]
I tried to do something different with this presentation of wordles. Simply GO HERE and see them. Play What the Wordle. It is in my Picasa web album – something teachers might use!
You can get a lot more Wordle games on EFL Classroom’s wordle page!
The powerpoint will be forthcoming so you can print [...]
I’ve been thinking recently about how good teachers foster “noticing” in their students. Good teachers somehow get students to notice the “deeper” stuff about language – the nuance and information that just isn’t on the surface and easily translatable or apparent.
This really can’t be done directly. One might think so and I’ll respect that opinion [...]
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I’ve been back again to Russel Tarr’s marvellous ClassTools site. On the site, you can very easily make all sorts of presentations and games. Just click and check out the games on the side of the site. The one above I made in 2 minutes! Just get an embed code. [...]
Thursday, October 30, 2008
I”m a big proponent of multi modal learning – a classroom and teaching style that begs / borrows and steals to create a dynamic and “rich” learning environment for students. I firmly believe that with ELL, if you can provide students with an audio option/component for the text they read — they will do much, [...]
