A WEBQUEST ON A RAINFOREST ANIMAL - STUDENTS' WORKS

After choosing their favourite rainforest animals, after looking for information on them, here's the result. This is RICARDO'S ppt presentation. Good job! Congratulations, Ricardo!

PS: Ricardo is a 7th grade student. He's in class 2.





Ricardo Alpoim Arara-Vermelha

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THE FUTURE SIMPLE FOR ELEMENTARY STUDENTS - A PPT PRESENTATION

A ppt presentation for elementary students who study a Future Tense for the first time. Quite easy, straight to the point examples, with some explanations in Portuguese.
I used it after they studied a text with some sentences in the Future Simple. Well, they were more involved because, at this age (12 year olds!), they're strongly attracted to image. A lesson that worked well. I'm sharing it with you:



Simple Future

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AWARD

Hi, everybody!
I got this nice award from Hannie and "Teaching Frenzy". Thank you, Hannie. All the best!

Rainforest Animals - A WEBQUEST for 7th grade students

Searching for information on the net about a topic is not as easy as it may seem, especially if you're an elementary student of English. Don't just ask them to use the net to research a topic. There's so much information about any topic, that they will feel lost. As a result, they will copy and paste the first thing they set their eyes on. Besides, there's the language barrier. Not every piece of information is adequate to their langauge level, so they won't understand what they read and will soon lose interest.

So try to make their search easier and adapt the language to their language level giving them clear instructions. An example of this is a WEBQUEST. If you don´t know what that is, visit this site:

http://webquest.org/index.php

So, here is a WEBQUEST on "RAINFOREST ANIMALS" I created for my 7th grade students.

It's their first webquest. I hope they're enjoying it!

http://zunal.com/webquest.php?user=12837

"WEATHER CHANGES" - A GROUP WORK

I created this task for my 9th graders. It's a pretty hot topic nowadays, so it was quite easy to find the pictures I wanted them to work on. They are supposed to work in groups of 3 or 4 students. They have to follow all the steps and present their group work in class. The following worksheet is just one of them, because each group gets a differet one.



Calamities Tranparency1

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Where is the Love ?

I usually use songs with my students. I think they are a light way to teach both vocabulary and grammar. I've recently used ... WHERE IS THE LOVE? by the Black Eyed Peas, with my 9th graders.
Here is the song:



And its worksheet:

Song Where is the Love

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Feel free to use it if you so wish!

Games for Revision and Recycling

Dear teachers, if you want to turn your revision lessons into something more interesting, then here are some ideas:


Lying game

Aim of the activity
Improve fluency skills.
Preparation
You will need dice for this game.
Procedure
Write a list of general topics, numbered 1 to 6, on the board. For example,
1) love
2) family
3) sport and hobbies
4) holiday
5) ambitions
6) food
Students work in groups. One student in the group throws the dice and the number showing on the dice decides on their topic for the next part of the activity. They then have to talk for one minute on the topic, but before they do that, they choose a card which they must keep hidden from the other members of the group. On one card is written Tell the truth and on the other is Tell a lie. While they are talking, they must follow the instruction on the card and the object of the exercise is for the rest of the group to decide whether they are telling the truth or lying.


Criss cross quiz

Aim of the activity
Revise a variety of language skills and structures in an engaging way.
Preparation.
You will have to prepare questions for each category in advance.
Procedure
This game is based on a game of noughts and crosses. Draw a grid on the board and in each of the nine squares write a different language category. For example, spelling, pronunciation,verbs, odd one out, etc.
In two teams, the students take it in turns to choose a category and to answer the
corresponding question. If they answer correctly, their team can mark a nought or cross in that square. If they do not answer correctly, the question passes to the other team. The first team to get a row of noughts or crosses is the winner.

Label game

Aim of the activity
To revise idioms by using them to talk about personal experiences, thus making the new language more memorable.
Preparation
Make a copy of a list of idioms to be practised for each student in the class.
You will need 6 to 10 blank sticky address labels for each student in the class. Post-its can be used as an alternative. You will also need a poster-size piece of paper for each group of 3 to 4 students, dice and counters.
Procedure
Give a copy of the list of the idioms to be practised to each student in the class.
Give each student in the class a pile of blank sticky address labels. Ask them to look at the list of idioms and to think of a time when any of them were relevant
to their own experience. For each relevant idiom, they should take a sticky label and write the idiom on it, as well as the approximate time of their life the event they are thinking of happened (e.g. last year, yesterday, when I was a child, on my birthday, about three weeks ago etc). They should not write down what happened, just the idiom at this stage.
When they have finished writing idioms on separate labels, ask the students to work in groups and give each group a poster-size piece of paper.
Students now arrange their idioms in a line or a snake on the piece of paper in chronological order and stick them down.
Give each group dice and counters and ask the students to take it in turns to throw the dice and move their counter along the idioms according to the number on the dice.
Students should either talk about a time when the idiom they land on was relevant to
themselves, or ask the student who wrote the idiom down to talk about their experience.

HAVE FUN!