Blog & Teach

Interesting article on ELT and blogging at BBC & British Council’s site for teachers. Different approaches and practical ideas for the classroom.

A very interesting online trivia game at Qtoro, where you answer questions while trying to beat other people on the net. You can also create your own questions:

Here’s a nice website with some listening games: elllo. The interface is quite simple, and it’s good for time-filling activities. The transcript appears right underneath the quiz game.

TPR, PNL in ELT, Communicative Approach, Project Works, Webquests…

There’s always a better way, maybe it is the one shown in this video. I can imagine our studens singing “That bully will beat me up at break time!”

Here’s an interesting website if you think Al Gore’s film is worth showing to your students. You can download a pdf document with a study guide for the classroom. The convenient truth is that it’s neat. Click on the picture and give it a look!

Here’s a list of other ELT blogs. Most of them will be permanently to your right .

http://blocs.xtec.cat/primaryenglish/

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/resources/blogging.shtml

http://www.ihes.com/bcn/tt/eltblog/blog/

http://jeffreyhill.typepad.com/

http://eltconsultant.blogspot.com/

And here’s some fun, for those who love phonetics like I do.

Here’s a very interesting website offering free TV programmes related to ELT.

Australia Network offers different sections to learn English with TV programmes. The section English Bites lets you watch the episodes and also download them into your computer without cost. You can read the transcript and the programme plays the video twice stopping at cuts where relevant expressions are used.

Let’s get instrumental!

Here’s a nice website from PBSKIDS where children can play with the famous Caillou… in English. Very nice activities and colourful games for the youngest… and the teacher by their side!

Many teachers see the advantages of teaching in a cross-curricular way: many are beginning to teach sciences in English, for example.

Here’s a list of websites with interesting science interactives in English for you:

Nutrition Explorations: http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/kids/main.asp 

Kidshealth: http://kidshealth.org/kid/http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/general/ 

What in Dust? http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/baylor/dust.htm 

Brainpop Jr. http://www.brainpopjr.com/ 

Cellsalive: Column on the left; click on “interactives”: http://www.cellsalive.com/ 

Chemicool: http://www.chemicool.com/ 

The Human Heart: http://www.fi.edu/learn/heart/index.html 

How Stuff Works: http://health.howstuffworks.com/http://science.howstuffworks.com/ 

Howard Hughes Medical Institute: http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/index.html 

Tox Mystery: http://toxmystery.nlm.nih.gov/ 

BBC-bitesize:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/aqa/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/edexcel/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/science/21c/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/games/rurevising/index.shtml 

Kinetic City: http://www.kineticcity.com/ 

Un minut de ciència: http://www.edu365.cat/eso/muds/ciencies/minut_de_ciencia/index.htm?lang=en# 

Nova Teachers: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/teachers/resources/subj_03_02.html 

Medmotion: http://www.medmotion.com/gallery.shtml 

Interactives.org: http://www.learner.org/interactives/

Funschool is a nice website with catchy activities for your students… have fun!