Sunday, October 26, 2014

Classroom Link :: Well Known tips to teach irregular verbs: A personal teaching experience

TESOL providers nearby

Source: http://www.trinitycollege.com/site/?id=2093

DipTESOL


Malta 
(St Julian’s) EC Malta Contact Nadya Aquilina
Address EC Malta, Language House, Marguerite Mangion Street,
St Julians, STJ 02, Malta
T +356 21 388500 F +356 2779 0011
E nadyaaquilina@ecenglish.com
www.ecenglish.com

Spain (Barcelona) 
Oxford TEFL 
 Contact Duncan Foord 
Address Oxford TEFL, C/Girona 83 pral, 08009 Barcelona, Spain 
T +34 93 458 0111 F +34 93 488 1405 

Spain (Madrid) 
The British Council 
 Contact Lesley Keast 
Address The British Council, Madrid Young Learners, P° General Martínez 
Campos 31, 28010 Madrid, Spain 
T +34 91 337 5016 F +34 91 337 5016 
Centre accredited by Accreditation UK 

Spain (Valencia) 
The British Council 
 Contact Michael O’Brien 
Address British Council Valencia, Avenida Cataluña 9 46020 Valencia, Spain 
T +34 963392981 F +34 963691389 
Centre accredited by Accreditation UK


Saturday, October 25, 2014

Happiness Survey - happiness-survey.com

How happy are your Students? - Teaching the Teacher

Word games | LearnEnglish | British Council | Spelloween

Your languages 5-a-day < britishcouncil.org

5 classic ice breakers you can use with all learners | Teach them English

Halloween | LearnEnglishTeens

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

How curiosity changes the brain to enhance learning | MyScienceAcademy

How curiosity changes the brain to enhance learning | MyScienceAcademy
The study revealed three major findings. First, as expected, when people were highly curious to find out the answer to a question, they were better at learning that information. More surprising, however, was that once their curiosity was aroused, they showed better learning of entirely unrelated information (face recognition) that they encountered but were not necessarily curious about. People were also better able to retain the information learned during a curious state across a 24-hour delay. “Curiosity may put the brain in a state that allows it to learn and retain any kind of information, like a vortex that sucks in what you are motivated to learn, and also everything around it,” explains Dr. Gruber.

Second, the investigators found that when curiosity is stimulated, there is increased activity in the brain circuit related to reward. “We showed that intrinsic motivation actually recruits the very same brain areas that are heavily involved in tangible, extrinsic motivation,” says Dr. Gruber. This reward circuit relies on dopamine, a chemical messenger that relays messages between neurons.

ELT/L... primary school children & parents... expectations & motivations... China... Research

Facebook - The anatomy of a gummy bear- a really cool sculpture by Jason Freeny

Facebook - The anatomy of a gummy bear- a really cool sculpture by Jason Freeny

Future tenses questions - difference in meaning - WordReference Forums

Business Result Upper-intermediate - elt.oup.com

How To Use A Camera | LearnEnglishTeens

Saturday, October 4, 2014

The Beatles - Help! Kinetic Typography - YouTube

The Beatles - Help! Kinetic Typography - YouTub





Bohemian Rhapsody - Kinetic Typography - lyric video



Kinetic typography - wikipedia.org

Production
Kinetic typography is often produced using standard animation programs, including Adobe Flash, Adobe After Effects, and Apple Motion.[4] The effect is most often achieved bycompositing layers of text such that either individual letters or words can be animated separately from the rest. 

15 stunning motion typography videos - marcofolio.net

Why I don’t use games in the language classroom | Teach them English

3 great games for verb tense review | Teach them English

10 reasons to use games in language teaching | Teach them English

BBC Learning English - Course: lower-intermediate / Unit 1 / Session 4 / Activity 4

BBC Learning English - Course: lower-intermediate / Unit 1 / Session 4 / Activity 4

Sandy Millin: Micro-dictations | TeachingEnglish | British Council | BBC

50 ways to use music and song in the classroom - EFL CLASSROOM 2.0

Friday, October 3, 2014

Storytelling Handbook < British Council / teachingenglish.org.uk

Oral correction- insensitive or vital? | elt-resourceful

Oral correction- insensitive or vital? | elt-resourceful
If teachers always jump on every little mistake, and fail to even vaguely listen to the message that the students are trying to communicate, the emphasis in the classroom will not be on communication at all, but on producing correct forms. And, surely, language is first and foremost about communicating? The students are also likely to stop trying to take risks with language, or produce anything original, and may even stop speaking altogether. The balance of power will be weighted firmly on the side of the teacher, who appears to be the only person ‘in the know’.
 Perhaps this is why so many ESOL teachers that I observed while tutoring on a Diploma in teaching ESOL were happy/proud to say that they never corrected students. They seemed to feel that there was something inherently authoritarian and negative about correction.
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However, ... ESOL students in particular, have plenty of daily opportunities to read, speak or listen in English, but what they don’t have is anyone to give them feedback.

Cool Sites and Tools for ESL & EFL Learners : A Journey in TEFL

Facebook - DIY nice flowering cats from plastic bottles