Week 10 Time/Weather
The Free Technology for Teachers website again offers us some nifty help with Google Docs. Read about three frequently asked Google Docs questions here: 3 Google Docs FAQ's
VENTURES
There are lots of online resources for the Ventures textbooks we use in class. Next term, we'll start sharing them with you. But for now, click below for a "Teacher Toolkit" for each level. It's a Google Drive folder, so it will prompt you to ask for access.
Ventures Basic Teacher Toolkit
Ventures 1 Teacher Toolkit
Ventures 2 Teacher Toolkit
Ventures 3 Teacher Toolkit
Ventures 4 Teacher Toolkit
Or, download them yourself here, at the bottom of the page: Ventures Teachers Toolkits
Next term, we'd like to share some warm-up activities each week with you. Do you have one you'd like to share? We're looking for activities that are not simply a review of the last class, but have energy
END OF TERM IDEA
Need a nice little project to wrap up your term? How about this: print out on paper, "In my English class I learned...." Have students talk about it for 5 minutes, then give them markers and a paper. Take a look at the results in Staten Island here:
ENGLISH PRACTICE FOR YOUR STUDENTS DURING THE BREAK
A lot of you do this already - share a few resources with your students and demonstrate in class, so students can practice at home during the break. Encourage them to keep a log to see how often/what they practice.
Below are three websites we talked about before in this blog.
You can print them out for your class as a PDF or Word-doc (edit and add your own) here:
alc-students.wikispaces.com/home
If you don’t have a Rosetta Stone
account - Practice English with Duolingo on your computer or download the
Duolingo app to your Smartphone.
Set a goal and practice a little
every day!
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Watch hundreds of different videos
by 11 great online teachers – practice vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and
more!
Click “All Lessons”, choose a
topic and a teacher – go!
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Listen to everyday conversations
in English – Choose short dialogues about many different topics: Level “Easy,”
“Medium,” or “Difficult.”
Each conversation has pre-listening
activities, vocabulary and a quiz.
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MAKING A PRESENTATION
Thinking about making a presentation at a conference, but don't know where to start? Try this article from Teachthemenglish.com: How to Present at a Teacher Conference
Call for Submissions—New Ways in Teaching Creative Writing for the ELL Community
Seeking contributors with exciting and effective lesson plan ideas for using creative writing in the English language classroom.
Submission Deadline: June 15, 2016
If you would like your submission to be considered for inclusion in this groundbreaking volume, please follow the guidelines below and submit to the co-editors, Patrick T. Randolph and Joseph I. Ruppert, at their email address:nwcreativewriting@gmail.com.
Scope and Purpose
For decades, creative writing has long been ignored as a pivotal craft for helping ELLs enhance their writing skills. Recently, however, the tide has dramatically turned. There has been a huge and constant wave of interest in using creative writing to evoke more learner interest in the writing process. A number of instructors have used creative writing to improve their ELLs’ writing skills and help them gain confidence along the way. This volume will be the first of its kind.
New Ways in Teaching Creative Writing for the ELL Community will be an eclectic collection of ELL classroom-centered activities contributed by professionals who have developed these ideas in their respective ESL or EFL environments. We look forward to receiving lesson plan ideas from English language teachers, graduate students, and directors who have creative and innovative methods that focus on using creative writing as a tool to help enhance our ELLs’ writing skills. We also encourage our contributors to submit a sample of their student’s work for the volume.
We are looking for activities and exercises in the following areas:
1. warm up tips/ideas
2. on words (e.g., creating words, writing about words)
3. on poetry (e.g., haiku, free verse, 6-word novels, 100-word poems)
4. on fables (e.g., creating new fables, creating dialog for fables)
5. on fiction (e.g., flash fiction, short stories, children’s stories)
6. digital writing (e.g., fan fiction)
7. on play writing (e.g., short one-act plays, dialog techniques)
8. on letters (e.g., creating letters home, writing letters to the future)
9. on creative essays (e.g., essays exploring a utopia, a new religion, a unique school)
10. on journals (e.g., using journals as short story starters, creative nonfiction)
11. on research skills (e.g., paraphrasing through poetry, summarizing fables)
12. on presenting students’ work (e.g., poster sessions, poetry reading ideas, play
productions)
Audience
The book is primarily directed at teachers who work in Intensive English Programs or for instructors who work at English Language Institutes. However, contributors should feel free to explore options for various populations and settings such as EFL learners, adult education, and young writers (K-12). In addition, consider adding a reference to instructional websites in the appendix of your submission.
The TESOL 2016 Convention is almost here!
April 5-8 in Baltimore
Maybe we'll see you there?
The TESOL 2016 Convention is almost here!
April 5-8 in Baltimore
Maybe we'll see you there?
One of the only ways we can know if you like what we are doing is if you make a comment on our blog page. Like our blog? Are there topics you would like us to add? Please comment!
Would you like to contribute something? A link, teaching tip, other? Any time!
Would you like to contribute something? A link, teaching tip, other? Any time!
Thank you, we really appreciate your feedback!
Elizabeth & Elke
Next blog post: April 25, 2016
ENJOY YOUR BREAK!
Elizabeth & Elke
Please email us if you're ready for your teacher interview :)
elkestappert@nypl.org
elizabethschade@nypl.org
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