BBC Bitesize KS3 English Website

June 4, 2017, 7:27 am

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

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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. Select the topic of your essay.
2. Choose the central idea, or hythesis, of your essay. For example: Information technology has revolutionized the way we work.
3. Outline your essay into introductory, body and summary paragraphs.
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. After this first sentence, add your thesis statement from above. The thesis clearly outlines what you hope to express in the essay.
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.

7. Finish the introductory paragraph with a short summary or goal statement. For example: Technological innovation has thus made the traditional workplace obsolete.
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.

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.
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.
11. The summary paragraph summarizes your essay and is often a reverse of the introductory paragrah.
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...
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.
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.

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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!

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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?...

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Learn nouns through apps

June 19, 2017, 3:09 am

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Hello dear teachers.

As I have done in a previous opportunity, today I bring an education app that can be installed in tablets and phones. It is called Check Correct English Grammar - Noun List Exercises. With this app, your students will be able to practice Compound and Collective Nouns.

Check it and leave your comments here about it.

Downloads available in free version: iOs App Store.

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Reading Comprehension samples for FCE

June 20, 2017, 8:48 am

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Hello everyone! Today I bring you some pdf mock files that will help your students develop a bit more their reading skills if they are preparing for First Certificate.

The Reading and Use of English paper has seven parts and 52 questions. The paper contains texts totalling approximately 3,000 to 3,500 words and candidates are expected to understand different types of text, such as fiction, newspapers and magazines, promotional and informational materials.

For the reading paper, students only have one hour and fifteen minutes. Here are the sample papers with the answer sheets you can download for free and use wisely in your lessonsClick here.

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Cambridge PET free resources

June 24, 2017, 8:39 am

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Hello dear teachers.

Today I prepared a list of useful links where you will find free resources to use in your PET lessons.

If you can recommend any other, please send it so we can include it here.

Let's get going with the links:

flo-joe
In this website you will find some Practice tests (not the listening part), grammar exercises and activities related to vocabulary topics.

Vocabulary PET list

This is a pdf file with all the terms your students will need to manage when sitting for PET.

Free PET worksheets

This is a collaborative website where teachers upload their worksheets and share them with their fellow teachers. It requires registering but it is free.

Free listening exercises online (PET format)

Listening sample exercises to use in class. It requires wifi and speakers of course.

Online extra practice

Recommended online worksheets to solve in class with a smartboard.

Enjoy!

@esl4freeblog

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Review: GrammarBank.com

July 18, 2017, 6:58 am

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Hello fellow teachers.

Today I want to review an awesome resource bank for our lessons: grammarbank.com.

This is a website full of useful resources, from worksheets, to multiple choice tests and reading exercises. It gives you the possibility to download printable pdfs.

All of their online exercises, worksheets and handouts are also available in printable version.Teachers can use use GrammarBank content in classrooms, as homework assignments or as testing material and all of it is for free. Check it out and tell us what you think of the website.

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The best FCE channels on Youtube

August 6, 2017, 12:21 pm

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Hello teachers. In this occasion I made a list of all the Youtube channels used in my school by our FCE teachers. If you know any other as good as these ones, please leave a comment and we'll include it in the list. Enjoy! Here it goes:

1- MrSkypelessons

Online lesson sessions for students preparing FCE (many topics from Use of English are covered with this playlist)

2- English Listening

In this channel you will find playlists with different sample audio and paper questions. It is great to improve your listening skills as well as the timing given by the paper exercises.

3- Oxford Online English

This playlist is devoted to introduce the speaking test of FCE: from its organization, topics and example interviews.

4- Speaking Test Intrviews (FCE for schools - good examples)

Interview 1

Interview 2

Interview 3

5- Tips for passing the Reading paper

Some useful tips from the channel Practice english with Paul.

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New year: busy teacher in 2018 :)

January 4, 2018, 11:53 am

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Happy brand new 2018! We are happy to kick off a new year bringing you more collaboration websites for and by teachers.

The one we are presenting this month is Busy Teacher. It holds more than 17,000 worksheets devoted to kids, young learners and adults enhancing their speaking, reading and vocabulary skills.

Moreover, every single worksheet is free and it only requires e-mail registration.

Happy worksheet hunting everyone!!!

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Free sample maths worksheets - all grades

April 23, 2018, 8:30 am

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Hello to all english maths teachers out there.

Lisa has been kind enough to send us these practice tests and problem banks. These are all sample pdf files so some of them may require previous registry. Print them and use them with total freedom. Enjoy!

Maths worksheets by topic

Maths quizzes by grade

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Science Worksheets from Super Teacher

April 25, 2018, 9:00 am

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Once again, we would like to share a worksheet bank site with free Science printable material for teachers.

Today we want to recommend Super Teacher Worksheets, a website full of printable science worksheets for teachers. It includes electricity, animal classifications, animal articles, plants and human body. Surf and enjoy!

Click here for free Science Worksheets

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English Worksheets Land: a paradise for ESL Primary teachers

April 28, 2018, 10:00 am

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Hello folks! Today we present another subject site with free worksheets. This one has over 5,000 printable worksheets in PDF format.

The site was designed as a primary and elementary level free resource. Middle level grade content is being added as well since it is updated monthly. You may find the material classified by grade or topic.

Visit English Worksheets Land and download free material for your lessons by clicking the photo below:

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Sample Reading Tests for FCE

April 30, 2018, 10:16 am

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Hello Cambridge teachers of the World!

Today we want to leave the url available online for a booklet containing free sample Reading Tests from the First Certificate Exam (ESOL - Cambridge University). This booklet has been compiled by the Metropolitan College so thank you for sharing it with this community.

You can download it here. Enjoy!

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Writing prompts for all teaching levels

April 1, 2020, 2:27 pm

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Hello dear teachers and educators.

It has been a while and in this difficult moment of lockdown education in many countries, we will try to update this blog twice a week.

Today we bring you writing worksheets which is something that many of you frequently ask for.

hese worksheets will get your little pen-smiths going. Writing prompts are conversation starters that will direct students to share their feelings or knowledge about a topic and at the same time they get to practice their writing skills. Sometimes it just takes a shove to get the information pouring out of you. As you will see below, we have writing prompts available for all types of grade levels. These worksheets are great for students or teachers that are looking for extra writing practice.

Check the writing prompts here.

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Tube Quizard: learn english with youtube videos

April 5, 2020, 7:40 pm

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Hello dear teachers. How are you holding up during your quarantine days?

Today we bring you another interesting resource. Tube Quizard is a collection of YouTube videos on a variety of topics with gap-fill quizzes. You can browse in several ways: by level, by language focus, by category, and by accent.

Click on the empty box in the exercise and the video will cue to that time. Fill in the blank and check your answer.

It’s easy to use and your students will love it, watching fun videos as they learn pronunciation. Visit the site and see it for yourself. It is a free resource of course!

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Happy Easter Worksheets

April 11, 2020, 3:51 pm

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Hello fellas!

Easter is right the corner so here we bring you a nice selection of worksheets for kids to solve at home now that lessons are taking place as homeschooling during quarantine.

Enjoy the Easter Worksheets from All Kids Network!

See you next week.

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English Worksheets

May 4, 2020, 1:14 pm

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Hello dear teachers.

How are you doing? Is the lockdown increasing your anxiety when planning your lessons?

Today we want to help you by providing a great bank of pdf worksheets for your classes.

This website offers a large variety of accurate and concise skill building resources geared towards a range of ability levels. It is suitable for every ESL course and for students of all ages.

Enjoy it by clicking here.

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Science Reading Comprehension: suitable for ESL young learners

July 22, 2020, 1:11 pm

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Reading things very carefully are paramount to being able to replicate a procedure in a laboratory. You need to pay close attention to every little detail and find the exact nook and cranny that each detail falls into. Reading in the content area is often overlooked by many language arts teachers.

This collection of printable reading worksheets all covers key areas of study in science. They make for great practice. All of the worksheets found here cross into the Science core standards as well. You will find that this area will grow month to month.

From amphibians to Gravity and Coronavirus. You can find them in the link below:

Science Worksheets Land

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Back to school during a pandemic: how can teachers be prepared?

August 9, 2020, 12:09 pm

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Hello fellow teachers. If coronavirus has taught us something is that teachers have a lot of flexibility to adjust to new paradigmatic trends in a short period of time.

Many governments are considering reopening schools to catch up to in-situ learning. How can this be possible? Through the flipped classroom method. What is it exactly? We recommend three interesting academic articles about it. It could be wonderful to share these with our coordinators and school heads to analyze the real possibilities of incorporating this new educational trend in our daily lives.

Flipping the classroom by Vanderbilt University

Flipped classrooms by Harvard University

Evaluating blended learning: Bringing the elementstogether by Cambridge Assessment

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More sample Tests for FCE

November 11, 2020, 8:03 am

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Hello fellow teachers.

How are you dealing with this crazy Covid-19 contingency education year?

Today we would like to recommend a website with really amazing resources if you are preperaring Cambridge B2 level courses.

This resource bank is for teachers and students preparing for Cambridge English: exams, including Cambridge English First (FCE) and Cambridge English Advanced (CAE ). For example here you can find some sample exams to solve online. Enjoy!

FCE Practice Tests for Reading and Use of English

Keep up the great work and don't hold back your teaching spirit, even in times like this.

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Teach Science through simulations

December 14, 2020, 1:51 pm

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Teaching Science during pandemic times is a complete new (?) challenge.

It is well known that Science teachers are very keen on upgrading their teaching creativity to the next level. Phet simulations are the next best thing.

From Biology to Chemistry, applying the scientific method has never been so easy. Your students do not need extra materials other than their computer, speakers on and their awe factor.

Here is an example of how fast and easy teaching can be through inquisitive and interactive experimentation online. Check out this fermentation lab experience with your students and enjoy!

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B1 Listening Activities

March 21, 2021, 8:19 pm

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According to the British Council, level B1 corresponds to independent users of the language, i.e. those who have the necessary fluency to communicate without effort with native speakers. It is important to bear in mind that the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL) is the system that defines and explains the different levels of oral and written expression and comprehension for languages such as English.

One of the main challenges for B1 level teachers is to teach listening comprehension when not frequenting the same physical classroom every week. Here is a good bank of listening activities with audio files and worksheets to practice this skill with your young learners. Enjoy!

Level B1 Listening Bank

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Photography teachers can build their galleries here

August 11, 2021, 2:38 pm

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Hello fellow teachers.

If you teach using your own stock of photographs for artistic purposes, this is a good resource to have. With Darkroom Tech you can design your own gallery collection for free and be able to sell your prints at a a price set by yourself.

I’m using Darkroom to host my gallery and sell prints of my work and I think you should check it out. If you sign in for an account, check more about it here.

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