Monday, March 1, 2010
Greetings
You can use these two videos to make your students aware of the importance of register and intonation. Let them discriminate different phrases into FORMAL/INFORMAL GREETINGS, then you can make them identify stressed/unstressed syllables and intonation patterns.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Halloween
- In this site, you'll find crosswords, scrambled words, word searching games, rhymes and more! Here, there a few samples of Halloween recipe cards to print.
- For little ones, here, you can find printables of coloring pages, bookmarks, and more.
- The story of Halloween, you can make comprehension questions using this text, or this one.
- Stories and Tales of Halloween, for advanced kids here.
- Very short scary tales.
- In the haunted house, students make their own choices and stories! Then, they can report what happened to them!
- A webquest on The History of Halloween, for kids.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Friend's day activities
On July 20th we celebrate Friend's day. Which of the phrases below would you write on a friend's day card?
- you make me live
- you’re a very nice person
- you are part of my family
- you're the best friend that I ever had
- I really love you
- I like spending time with you
- I got you, to help me forgive
- You make me a good person
- You know I'll never be lonely
- I really love the things that you do
- Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Walk beside me and just be my friend.
I would like to thank Emilia Gatto, the teacher who designed these activities. Thanks Emilia!
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
FREE Printables
FREE Printables that make our work easier. Check it out!
Easter Bunny letters
Games battleship, hangman, and tic-tac-toe papers.
Grocery Lists Useful if you are working with topics like 'going shopping,' 'food,' 'countable and uncountable nouns.'
Letterheads
Letters of recommendations
Mother's day Cards Wonderful opportunity for students to express themselves freely in a card.
Play money Useful if you want to work with dramatizations of 'going shopping'
Teacher resources class attendance papers, grade book papers, lesson plan sheets, seating arrangement charts.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Songs
Marvin Gaye’s real name was Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. Gaye was an American singer-songwriter and instrumentalist. He was born on April 2, 1939 and died on April 1, 1984. "Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)" is the second single from Marvin Gaye's legendary 1971 album, What's Going On. This song, written solely by Gaye, became one of his most poignant message of sorrow at the world dealing with the environment. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) soon became one of Gaye's most famous songs in his extensive catalog.
Suggested activities
1. The song deals with world ecological problems. Here's a list of environmental problems, talk to a partner and guess which ones will be mentioned in the song, and predict the words or phrases that may appear in the lyrics.
- destruction of rain forests
- air pollution
- water pollution
- radiation
- destruction of ozone layer
- overpopulation
- sewage waste
- chemicals
- malnutrition
- species in extintion
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