The next big thing : Cellphones In The Classroom

Topic on the hot seat these days

This video tells a lot about what's going on about such a big issue.
I think cell phones are fantastic tools that can be exploited to assist language learning, but there's still a really long way to go before this happens. We are not ready to use them. Not yet.

However, teachers should take up researching on new methodologies to deal with them right now. Just to count on possible courses of action up their sleeves .

Utopias of this sort may be somewhat hard to believe, but we MUST BE READY : "The future may call while we are out"

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Video to practise the Present Simple with kids

Some of the bad aspects of teaching Grammar is when you feel your students find the practice activities really boring. I always say that sometimes students have to put up with boring grammar exercises. But they also have the right to see something different (and not so unattrative) from time to time. You can create a funny video to get them to do what you want them to practise: One thing I learnt while exploring the web is that you have to be on the alert all the time-you can discover extremely varied sites /tools / resources that will trigger further ideas. This happened to me when I came across this site and I tried it . Then you can always use sites like Classtools.net to create some activities. ( Process shots ) I once used the same video to get students to practise a harder exercise

Cursos de verano 2019

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Introducing web tools to students:"Type with me"

It's always a nice idea to get students to practise the "classic" language items through innovative ways as they often tend to get bored at doing exactly the same sort of things. Do you know how many times they've gone through the Present Simple Tense? And the classic "read a text and answer questions in the present simple" kind of activity? Well, this could have been another boring practice again : Three different texts taken from somewhere online ( Scarlet , Amr and Asan and their habits around their school lives)- Sets of 10 questions per pair (they were working in pairs) that they made themselves-ie each pair was assigned a text an allows d they had to prepare the set of questions for that text. They would then interchange questionnaires and answer the questions the other teams had made. Typical activity that could have been well developed orally or even in writing (on paper). However, a new alternative has come up : Typewith.me , a web applicat...

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