Week 10
TIME / WEATHER / ENVIRONMENT
TEACHING RESOURCES
 ARE YOU USUALLY ON TIME?
Are you talking
about time and punctuality with your Students? (Ventures Unit 7)
Below are some
great discussion starters for high intermediate and
advanced students. (Copy/paste the quotes below into a word document)
For beginners, write
on board:
You have an
appointment at 2pm.
Do you arrive at: * 1:50pm * 2pm * 2:15pm * 3pm? (Or: appointment at 12pm - teach am/pm arrive at 11:50am or 12:10pm etc)
Vocabulary:
appointments / change
my ways / a way of saying… / valuable / early, on time, late
Read the three quotes below and discuss:
“I am invariably late for appointments -
sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things
that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing.”
“Arriving late was a way of saying that your own
time was more valuable than the time of the person who waited for you.”
“If you're early, you're on time. If you're on
time, you're late.”
from: Quotes about Punctuality (goodread.com)
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CLASSROOM PHOTOS
These were taken at MML from Marina Bekkerman's classes. The students are making presentations for the Around Town/Communities unit.
These were taken at MML from Marina Bekkerman's classes. The students are making presentations for the Around Town/Communities unit.
Marina added:
I'd like to thank Lianne for her presentation at the teachers' meeting and the wonderful materials she shared. I changed the materials for neighborhoods and ran the project for 4 classes from introducing it to presentations. Some of the tasks included choosing a neighborhood as a group, doing research online, finding pictures, putting a PP together, practicing presenting, using negotiating language and reflecting in writing about how they felt during and after the presentation. Some of the groups even met outside of class to work on the PP and practice. In addition, the students/audience had to evaluate each presentation and ask questions. They expressed many positive feelings about working on the project and the final presentations.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
English Language Teaching Global Blog
Going Mobile: A Q&A with Nicky Hockly
During my recent webinar Going Mobile, I described activities that use mobile devices in the classroom, and that I have used with my own EFL students. This included two QR code activities, which generated quite a few questions from the audience! QR (Quick Response) codes can be read by mobile phones, and can deliver a text message to students’ mobile phone screens (among other things). If you are unfamiliar with QR codes, you could take a look at this post on my blog: A dummies guide to QR codes.
Read the entire blog post here: OUP ELT: Going Mobile
A few of our colleagues are at the TESOL 2017 International Convention in Seattle, Washington this week.
Our Elke shared a few things already, and promises more for the next blog post:
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| Elke, Fatma, and David |
Our Elke shared a few things already, and promises more for the next blog post:
She also shared this on the Video and Digital Media Interest Section Facebook page:
Pictures from the TESOL Facebook page here: TESOL Convention
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| IMPORTANT DATES Winter 2017 classes end: April 2 Spring 2017 classes begin: April 24 Proposed All Staff Meeting Date: April 28 NEXT BLOG POST: April 28 Have a great break - see you in April! |
