Teaching Vocabulary and Grammar with Games!

I found this site with nice games and activities for children as well as adults.

Enjoy it!

http://www.teachingenglishgames.com/presentation/

A Student presented her awesome speech!!!!

Student's speech

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPs4gTceW44&feature=youtube_gdata

This is one of muy student's speech!!!!

My Voki Avatar

Just look and listen to me!

http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=5968196&height=267&width=200

Amazing sites

The following are great resources:

voki.com  This site lets you prepare lessons, record your voice and create your own avatar!
wikinclusion.org  Click on assistive technology, and you'll get a lot of tools for handicapped students
foundationcenter.org  This site includes a lot of education grants


Take advantage of what technology provides us educators!!!

How To Improve Students selfesteem?

• At the beginnig of the class, use tricks like: Tell the student at your right: You Look Great Today.At the end of the class, thell that same student: Now You Look Awesome.
• Always ask students on Mondays, "What made you happy this weekend?"
• Encourage them to treat each other with respect. Remind them that all of us art Masterpieces, and we deserve to be treated as such!

: - )

Tips for Teaching Adjectives by Following Neuroscience Principles

I recently attended a conference about neuroscience, and I'd like to share some tips with you for teaching adjectives:


Activity 1:The Gifts
a.Acccording to the amount of students, tell them to write numbers ( eg. 1-10 if there are 20 students; 1-7, if there are 18, etc..)
b. Students will ask each other the characteristic they project (adjectives). If students don't know the English word, they must look for it in the dictionary.
c. Ask students to share their answers.
d. Students will be told that those are the gifts they received that day. They'll love it!
Activity 2:Let's Use Our Cellphones
a. Since students cann't live without their cell phones, tell them that they'll call 5 people(family, and friends) who will describe them with three words (adjectives).
b. Those traits must be translated into English.
c. The closing activity is for them to reflect upon their classmates' answers and the ones they got from their phone calls.


Hope You Like It!

My Professional Eportfolio

Hi, Guys! I would like to share with you my professional eportfolio. If you want me to give you hints on how to create your own portfolio, please contact me.
Hope you like it! :)

https://sites.google.com/site/eportfolioprofmarie/

Great Online Resources

Hi!!! I just checked the website below, and strongly recommend it to all English colleagues!!!

http://www.scoop.it/t/efl-classroom-2-0/p/1237281623/teaching-presentations?_tmc=VLxJYriCnSsmjgK6zUjz71evPupI9CKvtEa8p4fMwlY


Enjoy it!

Online exercises for your students

Ifound this site very interesting as a new resource for teachers to use technology in their classrooms!
1. Log in www.englishexercises.org with your username and password.
2. Click on "My groups" (under your profile, in the main page)
3. Make the groups that you want. For example "Primary 1", "Primary 2", "Primary 3"...
4. Enter the names of the students in each group, and a password for each one of them.
5. Whenever you find a good exercise in englishexercises.org, click on "Add this exercise to my students list", and choose the student(s) that you want.
6. Your students can log in with their name and the password that you gave them, and they will find a page like this:

Collaborative Groups Strategies

Hi All!!!
It's been a while since I last posted something... Sorry for the detail. I promise I'll be upgrading my page weekly!!!

One of the problems ESL teachers have when it comes to collaborative learning is that a few (even only one student) is the one who develops the activity, and the rest just lean on that person. Here, I'm proposing two activities I learned at a TESOL Conevention in San Juan, Puerto Rico:
1. Prepare dialogues for two students. Student A will be reading his/her as student B listens and completes the blanks. Then, student B reads his/hers as student A fills in the blanks.
This activity enhances the listening skill. I use it especially for the ed endings and all verb tenses!

2. Prepare pieces of papers with vocabulary, verb tenses, or idioms. Then, divide the class in small gropus. A piece of paper will be given to each group. Student 1 will write his/ her sentence. When the teacher indicates, the sheet of paper will be passed to Student 2 who has to read Student's 1 sentence and then adds his/hers with the word/phrase given. It continues until all students write their sentences. A couple of minutes will be given so that students correct the paracgraph in terms of spelling, verb tenses, etc. At the end the teacher reads all the compositions and selects the winning group!

My students love it!
Enjoy, and let me know...