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...

Ed ending pronunciation

This is one of the toughest for Spanish speakers since we don't have this kind of consonant cluster at the end of a word!!! Nevertheless, just consider the following:

• if the basic form of a verb ends in a voiceless sound, the ed ending will sound as /t/; e.g talked. wlaked, watched...


• if the basic form of the verb ends in a voiced sound, the ed ending will sound as /d/; e.g. claimed, cleaned, called, remember, played.


• if the basic form of the verb ends in t or d, then add the extra syllable /Id? as in: eneded, demanded, wnated, limited.

Hope this may be of some help.

Tomorrow's lesson: Senetence Structure!

Verb Tenses

The following links present exercises on verb tenses created by me. They are very interactive since they include pop text, quizzes, and some other activities.

Hope you like them!
Click on the links below:

Simple Present Perfect Tenses

Simple Past Perfect Progressive

ONLINE EXERCISES

Practice the following exercise.
This one is on comparative and superlative modifiers:
http://www.englishexercises.org/exercise.asp?id=4038
This second exeercise is on article a, an, and the
http://www.englishexercises.org/buscador/buscar.asp?nivel=any&age=0&tipo=any&contents=#thetop
The last exercise is on past tense:
http://www.englishexercises.org/exercise.asp?id=480

Hope you like them!

How to Do Presentation

This is a video a student presented about how to make a bookmark. I consider it a good example of a presentation about giving instructions. Enjoy it!

Intonation

Having watched the video on intonation, please, post your opinion about it. Why is intonation important? What two types of intonation are there? What emotions can you express by using different intonation patterns? Why do tag questions have both types of intonation? Your answer must have 5 sentences at least.