Saturday, 9 March 2013

Useful links for teachers

Drama Games
52 cards with language patterns
Thumbscribes for collaborative writing
Englishexercises.org for lessons and listening audio and more.
breakingnewsenglish.com/ for topical news lessons
www.agendaweb.org/ for everything connected to lessons.
Cats illustrated ebook
glogster.com/ to make interactive posters
storybird.com/ where graphic artists provide illustrations for children to make stories with.
epals.com/ for classroom cultural exchange through email
bubbl.us/  for mind mapping
Lucidchart for diagramming
An example of a student made karaoke video file available on archive.org
Google resources for educators
Smitten by Britain!
National Geographic Kids
bookmarks in the cloud with del.icio.us
Get dropbox
Onestopenglish.com and the monthly news lessons are still free
Mary Glasgow magazine
Edmodo.com
The Queens Birthday

The Queen's Birthday


http://englishonline.naukabezgranic.pl/queens-birthday/

Sunday, 9 December 2012

011 Books of interest


A Criminal History of Mankind
Colin Wilson

Born to Win: Transactional Analysis with Gestalt Experiments
Muriel James, Dorothy Jongeward

You Just Don't Understand: Men and Women in Conversation
Deborah Tannen

And to finish on a light note, heard the most awesome sound in the world:


010 Christmas resources

This first one comes from my colleague Marzena:
For all teachers looking for a new Christmas song for ages 7 and up.

009 Drama in the classroom

Prezis which may help you.

Drama Games 25 classroom exercises (6.25 hours of classtime)
Basics of Drama
Drama Curriculum

Bonus Vocabulary:
Cohesiveness
Coherence
Primary Emotions: