NOTICE

MY PC HAS BROKEN DOWN =( I'LL BE BACK ASAP, OK? =) I'M SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE!!!

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MISS A. S.

Sweet pic

The other side of my memories board. It makes me feel good!

P.S.: Last hours to take part in the raffle!

Happy Teacher's Day ( aka Happy B-Day to me! =D ) !

Happy teacher's day, dearests!!!

But for me it also is...

 

Happy teacher's day, everyone... And a very merry (un) birthday to me!!! =D

P.S.: Don't forget taking part in our raffle! ;)

Penguin Kids Readers

"Even if learners haven’t seen the Disney film or know the characters, the vibrant illustrations in the readers, all Disney materials by the way, bring the story to life. And teachers can show their learners parts of or even all of the Disney film after they’ve finished the reader. It’s even better if the learners recognise the story or characters in the book from the Disney film and it doesn’t matter if the learners have already seen the film or know the story – in fact that’s a bonus! Children love to hear and read their favourite stories over and over again! These are just some of the things which make the Disney titles particularly motivating for young learners." - Melanie Williams, series editor

"Some reading series focus on teaching the mechanics of reading. If they have language controls, these are often linked to the language development of native speakers learners rather than the more systematic controls used for speakers of other languages. Often these series are designed to reflect the learners’ every day experience therefore not taking readers on a journey or giving them new experiences. The combined package of each Penguin Kids book provide for engagement in exciting stories through audio recordings, pictures, controlled language text and exercises." - Nick Dawson, academic consultant

The books are very nice, you can download activities, teacher's notes and the audio on the collection's website, but the teachers decided not adopting them in our school because students may get bored for already knowing the stories. What's you opinion?

http://www.pearsonlongman.com/penguinkids/index.html

P.S.: Last days to take part in the raffle!

Oxford English Testing

Place your students in the right class testing their level of English online (CEFR level, score out of 120, time taken, etc), saving time with automatic marking. Then, help your students improve their exam results managing exam practice with the online Learning Management System, assigning online practice tests with help including instant feedback on answers, exam tips and an integrated dictionary, OR without help as a mock exam, saving time with automatic marking and easily identify areas of weakness to focus on in class. Finally, be prepared or prepare your students for English exams with automatic marking, exam tips, online dictionary and instant feedback on answers. 

Disadvantage? Everything is paid. But I'm willing to try it!

http://www.oxfordenglishtesting.com/DefaultMR.aspx?id=3034&menuId=1

P.S.: Aaaand you still have time to take part in the raffle!

Project Third Edition - Home Study

This website has been very useful in my extra help classes for FII.

Project Third Edition  - Home Study is the Student's Site of the book Project Third Edition  It has five levels, each one with listening, pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar exercises, games, tests, picture dictionary, phrase builder and audio from the book. One type of the tests is harder and longer than expected, the audio will only be useful for you if you have the book, but you can do a lot with all the other parts of the site.

I don't know the book, I've never seen it before, but the website is very nice!

http://elt.oup.com/student/project3rdedition/?mode=student&cc=global&selLanguage=en

P.S.: Oh! Don't forget the raffle!

New English File Online

This website has been very useful in my extra help classes for FII.

New English File Online is the Student's Site of the book New English File. It has seven levels, each one with listening, writing, pronunciation and grammar exercises, useful links and download of extra materials. Most of the exercises are supposed to be done with the book support, but you still can do a lot here without using this book.

I have already used this book fore some days, when helping a coleague, and I liked the book better than the site. The song activities are awesome!

http://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/?cc=global&selLanguage=en

P.S.: Don't forget: Raffle!

RAFFLE - Macmillan Education Kits

I have already said I loooove stationary, and I know you do too ( because you are teachers, lol )! So, specially for you, to celebrate teacher's day ( and my b-day =p ), a very special raffle: Not only one, but two Macmillan Education Kits!!! These kits were only available for the ones who attended Macmillan School for Teachers and now you have the chance of getting one for you!

-Macmillan pen
-Macmillan folder-Macmillan notebook
-Macmillan Registration file
-Macmillan English Language Teaching Catalogue
-Macmillan Interactive Whiteboard Demo Softwares

To take part in the raffle, you should like the Facebook Fan Page. I'll put all the names in alphabetical order, giving each one a number and the raffle will be done through the site http://www.random.org/ on October 30th at 11:59 PM. As soon as the raffle is done, the winner's name will be published here, on Twitter and on Facebook. The winner HAS TO answer the post until October 31st (11:59 PM) with his/her shipping information. If the winner doesn't answer the post, a new raffle will be done.

 

GOOD LUCK!!! =D

Win World Teachers' Day prizes

World Teachers’ Day, held annually on 5 October since 1994 – when it was created by UNESCO – celebrates teachers worldwide.

To mark the occasion, Cambridge English Teacher is giving away five copies of 'Classroom Management Techniques'  by Jim Scrivener.

To enter simply email Cambridge English Teacher. 

IMPORTANT: Read World Teachers' Day prize draw terms and conditions

Good luck and hope you have a great World Teachers' Day!

Sweet Pic

In my classroom, next to my desk, I have a board where I put my memories, experiences, gifts from students... My teaching life is here. And I'm lovin' it!!!

Project - In The Dark

The main idea of this project was linking English with a current topic in everyone's life: Disabled people.

Step 1 - In The Dark: Students read the book by themselves at home and then in class, with the whole group. The teacher raffled names and each student read at least one page of the book aloud, while the class followed in the book. New vocabulary was taught and discussed.

Step 2 - The Miracle Worker: Students watched the movie about Helen Keller's disabilities, childhood and communication with the world.

Step 3 - Research: Students researched in groups about any famous disabled person and presented their findings to the class. The presentation included a poster with text and / or pictures and all the information given had to be spoken by heart.

Step 4 - A day with a visual impaired: One of the students was blindfolded and had to take part in the English class and its activities (including the reaseach presentation) this way. This student had a helper, who guided him throughout the class and the school. 

Step 5 - Composition: Students wrote a composition linking the book, the movie, the research and the day with a "visual impaired" person, sharing their ideas and thoughts.

Step 6 - Test: Students took a reading test about the book In The Dark.

8º ano EF simula situações vivenciadas por pessoas portadoras de deficiência visual

22/08/12 14:00 -

Apresentação sobre personalidades com deficiências

Um conteúdo especial do Ensino Bilíngue propiciou aos alunos do 8º ano do Ensino Fundamental compartilharem uma experiência que é vivenciada diariamente por centenas de milhares de pessoas no mundo todo: a deficiência visual. A ideia da proposta, intitulada In the dark, é que os liceístas sentissem como é o dia a dia de quem não enxerga, as dificuldades de acesso aos locais, a ajuda dos colegas para vencer essas barreiras. Todo o procedimento foi acompanhado de perto pelas professoras das turmas e pelas coordenadoras Alessandra Vieira Marques e Maria Vitória Komar.

A simulação abordou não apenas o aluno que teve os olhos vendados para percorrer os espaços da escola como também do guia, que o orientava para descer as escadas e escolher a direção correta, por exemplo. Para auxiliar na compreensão do tema, os estudantes também assistiram ao filme "The miracle worker" (1962), baseado na história real de Helen Keller.

A jovem, cega e surda desde a infância devido a um caso grave de febre escarlate, sente-se frustrada por sua incapacidade de se comunicar, o que acaba gerando um comportamento violento e incontrolável. Sua vida começa a mudar com a chegada da professora Annie Sullivan, que consegue manter contato com Helen por meio do toque - única ferramenta que elas têm em comum.

Personalidades

Outras personalidades que também conviveram com deficiências - como o cantor Ray Charles (cego) e o compositor Beethoven (surdo) - foram lembrados pelos estudantes, que apresentaram uma biografia dos artistas escolhidos para os colegas. Tanto a pesquisa como a explanação foram realizadas na língua inglesa, bem como a roda de conversa que se seguiu aos apontamentos.

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Galeria de Fotos: Clique aqui

Total Quality - Macmillan School for Teachers 2012

 

Maybe I'll go... See you all there? =D

http://www.macmillan.com.br/agenda-de-eventos/detalhe.php?ID=ODc=

Richmond Symposium São Paulo 2012 - Review

By @tati_szabo

José Olavo - Components for a more effective vocabulary development

-Grammar x Vocabulary = recipe x ingredients

• ingredients without recipe: you’ll eat something anyway (communication)
• recipe without ingredients: you’ll starve

-Components to think about when teaching a word:

1. Parts of speech
2. Content clues
3. Cognates and false cognates
4. Homophones
5. Homographs
6. Abbreviations and acronyms
7. Idioms
8. Collocations/ Word combinations
9. Phrasal verbs/ Phrasal noun
10. Proverbs
11. Knowing the roots of words
12. Affixes
13. Words with multiple meaning
14. Verbs, adjectives, nouns preceded or followed by fixed prepositions
15. Irregular verb forms
    
    
    
    
    Monica Camargo - Reading mediation - not only an option
    
    
    -Books should have the same importance of a TV set at home
    only 14% really read (literature)
    Reading helps discover other places, times, ways of acting and being, rules, ethics, optics
    
    
    -Reading is getting to know History, Politics, Philosophy, Law, Sociology etc
    Mediating: helping students to see the possibilities, making them interested in going beyond, that is, coming up with the WH magic: Where, What, When, Who, How, Why.

During the coffee break, which was DELICIOUS, there was a Flamenco presentation.

By the end of the symposium, we had the raffle and I
got a book and a t-shirt about Global Warming.

CoSketch

This online tool allows one or more users to create an online sketch in real-time; no registration is needed and the image can be embedded in a blog or Web site with the included code. I believe it's an alternative to Power Point and / or Papershow.

http://cosketch.com/

Letters

Madness. Not really a game, and yet I had a lot of fun playing with Letters, a Flash Communications Server application. The multiuser Flash application is reminiscent of those old Fisher Price Letters. Basically, there is a white board with lots of English alphabet letters on it that you drag around to form words, sort into colors, or what ever you like. Problem is, there are many others all doing the same thing. Letters flying every which way, letters being taken from your words to form other words nearby. Hilarious fun.

Why not taking your students to the Lab of your school to play this together...?

NOTE: This is an anonymous, multi-user online environment, and therefore your experience, good or bad, heavily depends upon the nature of the other individuals playing at the same time. I offer no guarantee that your experience will be like mine was when I first played this. Proceed at your own risk.

http://lunchtimers.com/game/?game=letters&roomid=room1

GoAnimate

Sometimes we want to use videos in our classes that talk about a certain grammar point, but it's very hard to find a movie that fits in perfectly on it, isn't it? If you like technology, it won't be hard anymore!

On GoAnimate you can make your own animated characters, direct your own cartoons and watch others' creations. It's easy, fun and free! GoAnimate makes it easy to make animations exactly the way you want.

http://goanimate.com/?utm_source=embed

Oxford Living Grammar Online

Since last August I've been teaching extra help classes for FII and this website has been very useful.

Oxford Living Grammar Online is the Student's Site of the book Oxford Living Grammar. It has four levels, each one with listening and grammar exercises, useful links, download of extra materials and a test. Most of the links are paid, the test is harder and longer than expected, but you can do a lot with the listening and grammar exercises.

I don't know the book, I've never seen it before, but the website is very nice!

http://elt.oup.com/student/livinggrammar/?cc=global&selLanguage=en

Teaching young learners and teens? Want better outcomes anyone?

Who wants to go with me...? Say you do, pleeeeeease... =p

If I'm not able to go, I'll need reviewers. Volunteers? =D

Project - Father's Day Song

It was decided the school would have a mass to celebrate Father's Day and its Aniversary. Then, the school asked the English teachers if we could cooperate on the mass teaching the kids a song that would honor Father's Day. From this moment on, the project had 7 steps:

1-Choosing a beautiful but easy song that had to do with Father's Day. The chosen song was Count On Me by Bruno Mars.

2-Cutting one part of the song out, to make it easier for very young students.

3-Deciding the choreography that would go with the song. As the song has numbers and students can identify them easily on a song, we decided to make tags with the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 for the younger students; the older students had the tags "I'll be there" and "You'll be there". Students had to put the tags up according to the song.

4-Making the tags: Students had to cut and paste the tags in colorful paper, besides decorating them.

5-Rehearsing the song without the tags, per year.

6-Rehearsing the song with the tags, per year.

7-Rehearsing the song with all the students together, without and with the tags.

You can watch the presentation here.