miércoles, 24 de septiembre de 2014

Guess what finishes in -y? 'Funny Thursday!'













Poor orange!






Naughty Collin... 



 Punctuation, lovely lady!



Have a great almost-ending of the week, and don't forget to start your day with a big smile!




THE MORE YOU ENJOY, THE MORE YOU LEARN

Hello you all!
I want to share with you an interesting webpage that I found while I was looking for some material. It contains a lot of on-line games; I tried some of them and they are really entertaining, I tried to choose some of them to attach the links but I couldn't select only a few since all of them work on different grammar points and are designed for different levels, so I decided to attach the link to the webpage for you to choose the game that is more suitable for your group of students.
Furthermore, there are some games for avanced learners that we can also play in order to practice or just have some fun for a while..
Enjoy it!
WEBPAGE-ONLINE-GAMES


lunes, 25 de agosto de 2014

on-line games

Hello everyone! I hope you've enjoyed your winter break! This time, I want to share with you two interactive games. They are great for children since they are very colourful and dynamic. These games are mainly focused on present tenses but they are for different age.

The first one is for beginners level; it presents very basic sentences and includes a cute character which celebrates or gets sad when the child chooses the correct/wrong answer.  Furthermore, there is one thing in particular that I consider useful and it is that, while the student practices present simple tenses, he or she is recycling previous knowledge such as "CAN+VERB INF".
GAME 1 (link)

The second one is for older students since the game is more complex and the options given are from a higher level of knowledge. In addition to this, the characters are more suitable for older students, in my opinion for 10-13(aprox.) years old students.
GAME 2 (link)

Well, all what you need to play these games with your students is a computer which has access to internet. I know that, in most schools, we don't find such technology and it would be very difficult to try them on with large groups of students but I think that you can give it as a homework since, nowadays, most of our students have access, on their computer or some mobile phone, to internet.
You can also play them when you give some private lessons or if the facilities of the institution where you work allow it, you can use a projector and ask your students to come at the front and choose the options by turns.
There are many ways of make this kind of activities work, just think about it and let innovation enter in our lives!

Have a nice week :)

Araceli.

miércoles, 2 de julio de 2014

Adjectives - wordsearch






School objects - crossword


Arnold's comic for beginners

This is a comic that I created for teaching basic exchanges in a conversation between people that meet each other for the first time; it includes greetings, fixed expressions and personal questions/answers.
I presented it in a group of students from primary school (beginners) and it worked very well, I hope it will be useful for you, too.
As I uploaded the comic in JPG format, you can also adapt it for your group by changing the dialogues or by adding some iseful pictures such as flags (I'm from Argentina), numbers (I'm ten), etc.
Enjoy it!

Teachers, teachers..