Extra Help with technology and online courses.

A very nice list of great websites for your students to get connected and practice language 

http://www.onlinecollegecourses.com/2012/05/23/20-startups-changing-the-way-we-learn-new-languages/




This great Article was sent by Larry Dignan. Thanks Larry! 

New great site for ESL/EFL Teaching

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/brazil

20 EMBARRASSING FACTS ABOUT FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING IN THE U.S.

Very interesting article suggested by Jasmine Hall.  It makes you wonder why does L2 language Teaching is not important in the USA?

http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2012/01/01/20-embarrassing-facts-foreign-language-learning-u-s/

The New Year Resolutions Activities

Hi Everybody! I have something for you if you wanna use in your last class before New years eve. :)


Happy New Year!







Vocabulary
http://www.edhelper.com/themes/NewYearsDay26.htm

PDF exercise - Printable - Read all the pages before printing it.
http://www.michellehenry.fr/New_year_resolutions_WORKSHEET_seances_1_et_2_3%5B1%5D.pdf

Text and multiple choice exercise
http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/reading_new_year_eve.php

Reading and Listening
http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/a-23-2008-12-31-voa2-83137972.html

ESL/EFL Christmas Activities

Hi everybody! Thanks for visiting my blog.

This is a special post. It is X-mas time :)

In the following links you will find lots and lots of :

Puzzles, games, texts, quizzes, readings and songs.

http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/xmas.html

http://iteslj.org/Lessons/Seasonal/Christmas.html

My favorite:

http://www.michellehenry.fr/christmas2.htm

Merry Xmas.

Ronald

Proverbs in English - Printable lesson

Proverbs in English 

Entire lesson is ready!

http://bogglesworldesl.com/proverbs.htm

COMMON TEACHING METHODS

Very clear Article about the most common teaching methods used in classes. You might choose not to focus in just one method. I personally think it is good to mix and vary methods as much as you can. Students like to see different things in class. Surprise your class. 

You will find information about each methods divided by:

STRENGTHS

LIMITATIONS

PREPARATION

http://www2.honolulu.hawaii.edu/facdev/guidebk/teachtip/comteach.htm

Connecting Reading and Writing Courses

Good article! I recommend! 

http://iteslj.org/Articles/Tsai-ReadingWritingConnection.html

EFL/ESL/SPANISH WRITING GAMES

Great site to teach writing skills to all ages.

http://www.teachenglishinasia.net/efl-esl-games/efl-esl-writing-games

Teaching Ideas! Games and funny ideas to use in class.

Very good teaching website. Good ideas to be done in class, for most of them you won't need lots of materials. I hope you enjoy it. Please subscribe to the website, share this website and leave your comments. 

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/foreignlanguages/contents.htm

ESL Short Stories

This website is amazing. Here you will find a lot of reading materials, but the best part is: Each reading has its own recording, yes/no questions, Cloze, crosswords and dictation.

http://www.eslfast.com/

Special Thanks to: Mari !

Reading Materials - Lessons ready - EFL

http://www.eslflow.com/readinglessonplans.html

Lecturas en Espanol - Reading Materials - Instituto Cervantes

En este enlace encontraras una colección de lecturas para estudiantes de español creada por el Centro Virtual Cervantes! 

Las lecturas estan organizadas en tres niveles —inicial, intermedio y avanzado— según la complejidad de los textos que incluyen; en cada una de ellas encontrarás, además, actividades que te facilitarán la comprensión de los textos y servirán para que practiques lo que has aprendido.

http://cvc.cervantes.es/aula/lecturas/

Abajo hay otro enlace bien util para se utilizar en las clases, pues trae una lista de vocabulario al final de cada texto. 

http://www.spanish.cl/reading.htm

Task-Based Instruction

Developing Learners’ Communicative Competence Through Task-Based Instruction.


                                            This first link is presenting the basics about different language teaching approaches

www.unh.edu/spanish/lina/TBI.ppt

This second link is a very good example of how to apply it to the classroom setting.

http://www.britishcouncil.org/portugal-inenglish-2004aw-two-successful-task-based-activities.pdf

This last link has more theoretical explanations about the principles of task-based language teaching by David Nunan.

                                            http://www.docstoc.com/docs/document-preview.aspx?doc_id=2281433

Icebreakers and Warm-ups activities

Icebreakers are structured activities that are designed to relax learners, introduce them to each other, and energize them in what is normally an unduly formal atmosphere or situation. Icebreakers are not normally related to the subject matter, where as “openers” are related to the subject matter that is to be discussed. In addition, they often help to break up the cliques and invite people to form random groupings in a non-threatening and fun way.

http://www.nwlink.com/~donclark/leader/icebreak.html

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson343.shtml

Songs in English - Exercise

Great website to listen and do exercises to improve listening skills.

http://www.saberingles.com.ar/songs/

Fast food Teaching!

 Mr  Ken Robinson addresses what he calls: Fast food education. 

What Are we doing in our classes?

What kind of principles do we share?


Watch the video on the link below


http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/en//id/865

Matching Exercise Creator

                             Great site to create your own matching exercises for your classes.

http://www2.elc.polyu.edu.hk/CILL/test/matchmaker10.htm

Bingo Creator - Vocabulary

http://www.toolsforeducators.com/bingo/

Canciones por temas gramaticales en Espanol

 Pasado, presente, futuro, subjuntivo, imperativo.

http://www.todoele.net/canciones/Cancion_list.asp