Author Archives: rgarcia5

About rgarcia5

ELT teacher, based in Molins de Rei (Barcelona).

A Good Method

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!”

Learn English watching the telly

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.

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CLIL: Science in English

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/