Practicing Homophones

March 6, 2011, 2:27 pm

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English Language teachers know that it is quite hard for young learners to understand Homophones. Here we found a very good lesson plan for teachers and activity worksheets on the subject. Enjoy !

Download the pdf file here

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Teaching ideas - Resources online

August 13, 2011, 6:28 pm

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Here I recommend another useful website for teachers. Find hundreds of free teaching ideas, lesson plans, and primary / secondary resources which can be used in the classroom. A fantastic resource for primary teachers.

TEACHING IDEAS WEBSITE

Create A Self Grading Multiple Choice Quiz Using Google Docs

December 18, 2011, 10:46 am

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Google Docs is a very powerful tool and can seem a bit overwhelming at first. However, once you begin to fully understand the power of this powerful yet free service you will lean towards using it more and more.
In this activity you will be able to create a self grading, multiple choice quiz using Google Docs.
Go to this link to learn how to do it (the site includes a very clear youtube video to help you step by step)

Reading Techniques for FCE

April 2, 2012, 1:51 pm

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Reading Techniques for FCE is for students at upper-intermediate level who wish to improve their general reading skills in English and/or work specifically towards Paper 1 of the revised FCE. The book can be used to supplement a coursebook at this level, and is suitable for use in the classroom, for homework, or for self-study. This is the edition with key.

You can download it here

Grammaropolis

April 2, 2012, 1:53 pm

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Grammaropolis is website designed to help elementary school students learn the parts of speech. Grammaropolis features cartoon characters that represent nouns, verbs, adjectives, and other parts of speech. Students can click on any of the characters to read that character's story. After going through the character stories students can watch videos about the parts of speech and play games about the parts of speech.

Visit this TIC tool for Teaching grammar here

Grammar Bank : Rules and worksheets 4 all

June 29, 2014, 7:06 pm

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GrammarBank is where you can learn and practice English free online. We offer hundreds of online and printable grammar exercises, EFL ESL quizzes, lessons, reading comprehension worksheets, essay writing, vocabulary practice, great resources for teachers to use in their English classes. Learn the basic grammar rules, test your learning with numerous multiple choice or fill in exercises. All exercises, worksheets and handouts, printable or online, are free to help you learn and practice English or teach if you are a teacher, for you to use in classrooms, as homework assignments or as testing material.

Grammar Bank Printables / pdf

Free printable flashcards for young learners

May 30, 2015, 8:48 am

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Hello dear followers!

Today I bring an insteresting resource for those teachers who teach Vocabulary to children. This website contains many cartoon flashcards grouped by topic.

There are 100+ sets of free flashcards to print designed for curriculums for children ages 3-9 and 6-10.  These cards are excellent image quality and as such some of the files are quite large (1mb~4mb.)

For free download of the flashcards, click here.

Listening comprehension activities with rock&pop songs

May 30, 2015, 9:05 am

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This website has very nice worksheets with lyrics of top40 songs and youtube videos from the songs attached to each entry. 

Teaching through songs with listening activities is an amazing opportunity to teach your students phrasal verbs, vocabulary terms, reported speech and passive voice rules.

Check the website here and let us know if it was useful :)

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Writing essays for FCE

June 10, 2015, 3:15 pm

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Students always find the writing paper of the Cambridge First Certificate Exam rather hard. Sometimes it is a problem about lack of ideas, other times it is just a matter of  incoherence in the organization of ideas. Here are two recommended websites to show your students so they can improve their essay writing technique: from planning to write-ups. Enjoy them!

Cambridge English Writing Guide 

First Certificate Writing Site

Father's Day Worksheets for primary students

June 12, 2015, 6:53 pm

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In many countries of the world we celebrate Father's Day the third sunday of June. For this reason I would like to recommend a really awesome website with plenty of nice activities for kids to celebrate this occasion. It has colouring worksheets, write-a-poem worksheets and game worksheets. All printable and free. Click the link next to the picture to check the worksheet collection. To access the worksheets you need to register to the site with an email address and username only.

Education.com

Test your Gammar Level Online

July 7, 2015, 4:53 pm

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How well do you understand English? Which exam should you study for? 
This test contains grammar and vocabulary questions and your test result will help you choose a level to practise at. You will not be able to see the correct answers to the questions.
At the end of the test your level will be assessed at a CEF level (A2 to C2). You can choose to have the results sent to your email address.
You should complete this test in about 10 minutes. You can also do a listening level test.

Homophones: worksheets for kids

August 13, 2015, 5:13 pm

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Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings. With this worksheets, kids choose the homophones that make sense in the sentences. Practice with common homophones helps kids with vocabulary development as well as spelling. Here we present a selection of free worksheets on this topic:

http://www.education.com/worksheet/article/homophones-same-sounds-second/

http://www.education.com/worksheet/article/homophones-see-the-sea-second/

http://www.education.com/worksheet/article/too-two/

http://www.jumpstart.com/common/beasley-and-homophones-view

https://www.superteacherworksheets.com/homophones/homophone-clues_WBRMN.pdf

http://www.k12reader.com/worksheet/correct-the-homophones/view/

http://www.tlsbooks.com/pdf/homophones1and2.pdf

http://files.havefunteaching.com/free-worksheets/language-arts/homophones-worksheet-1.pdf

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0SPeY_PyGOodlFCMWY4ei1zUUk/edit

Survival English through online free audiocasts

September 27, 2015, 4:41 pm

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As teachers we always come across adult students who want to learn super fast English in an impossible short period of time. For these expectant students with little time, we recommend a set of free audiocasts with lessons on Survival language organized by topic. These units provide models of key dialogues for surviving and building relationships in today's English-speaking societies.

Click here to check the site with audio lessons.

Recommended Youtube Channels to teach young learners

November 14, 2015, 10:37 am

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Hello once again. It has been a very busy month at work. However, I wanted to publish here some awesome youtube channels that I have been using in my lessons with five and six graders. It is incredible how technology can make our explanations so much easier sometimes. This channels offer great support in teacher lots of Grammar such as Reported Speech or Conditionals. Check them out and tell me what do you think.

British Council's LearnEnglishKids (click here)

BBC Active English (click here)

Kids Online English (click here)

Makemegenius (click here)

This last one is a good source for explaining Science and Geography topics through cartoons.

So, did you like them? Are you using any others that you can recommend? Please leave a comment with your suggestions. See you next post! ;)

FCE - Use of English - Exercises Bank

March 21, 2016, 2:26 pm

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Hello everyone.

I have been using some really good exercises that you can download and print for your students so they can prepare the FCE Use of English paper properly.

Here is the link of the bank resource.

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Free apps for young ESL learners

January 6, 2017, 2:44 pm

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Happy 2017 everyone! Today we bring you 3 apps that your kid students can use in class or at home in order to keep developing their English skills. All of them are downloadable for free and support iOS or Android. Let's get started:

1. DUOLINGO

Duolingo is one of the best English language apps today and highly recommended for English beginners. The gamified learning system of the app helps you learn English quickly by spending twenty minutes a day. Duolingo structures your lessons that teaches you about seven new words based on a topic and skill points being awarded for completing the lessons.

More info and iOS download
More info and Android download

2. BESUU: Learn Languages

Busuu helps you learn English language on the go and the lesson's quality are guaranteed as it is based on CEFR language framework. Lessons range from beginner to advanced through comprehensive vocabulary, lesson dialogue, writing practice and tests. Busuu is actually a great English app if you want to improve your spoken English.

More info and iOS download
More info and Android download

3. MEMRISE

Memrise uses some creative and easy way to remember words for learning English. The focus of this app is to help the users expand their vocabulary by learning English words in a effective way. Memrise also offers an offline mode to continue learning without internet connection.

More info and iOS download
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BBC Bitesize KS3 English Website

June 4, 2017, 7:27 am

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Hello dear teachers. I know it has been a while. However, I wanted to share a golden mine that I have been using online to prepare my Grammar, Reading and Listening lessons.

The website that I bring today is oriented to young students from Primary School. It is called BBC Bitesize.  Most of the lessons are oriented to teachers so they can prepare their explanations in advance. 

At the end of each chapter, there is an interactive quiz that you can solve together with your students. It's a great source of theoretical information and tips to use in class so your young learners improve their reading technique and writing skills.

Check it out by clicking here

Writing essays: Basic tips

June 7, 2017, 9:00 pm

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Teenage students usually find it very difficult to write their complex and critical ideas in a logical and well ordered format. This is why writing essays is so difficult for them. It's not the lack of ideas, the problem is not knowing what to do with those ideas.

Here is a quick guide with 14 steps that you can share with your students so they can write a good essay with the expected worldwide format:

1. 1. Select the topic of your essay.
2. 2. Choose the central idea, or hythesis, of your essay. For example: Information technology has revolutionized the way we work.
3. 3. Outline your essay into introductory, body and summary paragraphs.
4. 4. The introductory paragraph begins with an interesting sentence. For example: Home workers have grown from 150,000 to over 12 million in the past 5 years thanks to the wonders of the computer. There are a number of types of introductions: Interesting statistics, a quote from a famous person, or a rhetorical question such as "Did you know that ...".
5. 5. After this first sentence, add your thesis statement from above. The thesis clearly outlines what you hope to express in the essay.
6. 6. Use one sentence to introduce every body paragraph to follow. This linking to ideas you will develop further in your body paragraphs provides structure to your essay.

1. 7. Finish the introductory paragraph with a short summary or goal statement. For example: Technological innovation has thus made the traditional workplace obsolete.
2. 8. In each of the body paragraphs (usually two or three) the ideas first presented in the introductory paragraph are developed. Remember that referring to ideas first introduced in the initial paragraph provides structure to your essay.

1. 9. Develop your body paragraphs by giving detailed information and examples. For example: When the Internet was first introduced it was used primarily by scientists, now it is common in every classroom.
2. 10. Body paragraphs should develop the central idea and finish with a summary of that idea. There should be at least two examples or facts in each body paragraph to support the central idea.
3. 11. The summary paragraph summarizes your essay and is often a reverse of the introductory paragrah.
4. 12. Begin the summary paragrah by quickly restating the principal ideas of your body paragraphs. For example: The Internet in the home, benefits and ease of use of modern computer systems...
5. 13. The penultimate sentence should restate your hypothesis of the essay. For example: We have now passed from the industrial revolution to the information revolution.
6. 14. Your final statement can be a future prediction based on what you have shown in the essay. For example: The next step: The complete disappearance of the workplace.

English Listening Lesson Library Online

June 11, 2017, 7:49 am

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Hello my dear fellow teachers!Today I bring you a suggested website full of online audio sketches for you to use in your lessons and practice listening skills with your students. 

This compilation website contains files you can listen to online. Over 2500 free lessons featuring speakers from around the world. All lessons comes with audio or video, a quiz and script.

Visit elllo.org and enjoy it in class!

Tips to estimulate quick learning on your young students

June 14, 2017, 12:30 pm

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Sometimes learning english can be hard for young learners because they find it boring, because they spend already too much time among school books and whiteboards, or simply because they have amazing auditive memory instead of reading memory. 

What can we do with those students? Encourage them to learn through less conventional ways, through movies and songs. Art is a well defined runway of language learning. The key is to find short clips or trailers that can match your lesson plan. Today with Youtube, that is a piece of cake for good teachers.

Here are some tips that can help you plan a lesson for these particular group of students:

1. Choose an interesting movie

2. Select a movie that matches your current English level. 

3. Movies with subtitles (cc in youtube) are always more encouraging for young learners. 

4. Repeat without subtitles after the kids have been familiarized with the vocabulary and the clauses of the dialogues in the scenes. 

6. Download VLC player, it works with most video formats and has a low crash rate and it's free. 

Now be honest with yourself, who wouldn´t love to learn academic abilities while watching a scene from Star Wars or Harry Potter? Huh?...