tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44286566924366569322024-03-13T00:32:04.756-07:00English Teacher ExposedInna Piankovskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422660913965996199noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4428656692436656932.post-77551315688251282722016-12-14T08:56:00.002-08:002016-12-14T08:56:38.252-08:00FCE Writing Resources <br />
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<a href="http://fce-writing-nadeen.blogspot.com/"><span style="font-size: large;">FCE Writing Guide</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.fcepracticetests.com/fce-writing/"><span style="font-size: large;">How to Pass the FCE</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b039dks7/episodes/downloads"><span style="font-size: large;">In the psychiatrist's chair</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b042q944/episodes/downloads"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></a> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b042q944/episodes/downloads"><span style="font-size: large;">Intelligence</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03yzn9h/episodes/downloads"><span style="font-size: large;">Five hundred years of friendship</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrvz8/episodes/downloads"><span style="font-size: large;">Sixty-second idea to improve the world</span></a><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dwbkt/episodes/downloads"><span style="font-size: large;">Educators</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lhs21/episodes/downloads"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></a> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04lhs21/episodes/downloads"><span style="font-size: large;">21st century mythologies</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01fm592/episodes/downloads"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></a> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01fm592/episodes/downloads"><span style="font-size: large;">Titanic Letters</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qxsb/episodes/downloads"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></a> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qxsb/episodes/downloads"><span style="font-size: large;">Great lives</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pmg02/episodes/downloads"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></a> <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pmg02/episodes/downloads"><span style="font-size: large;">The Value of Culture</span></a>Inna Piankovskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422660913965996199noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4428656692436656932.post-81388603251133894242016-09-08T01:41:00.000-07:002016-09-08T01:46:57.130-07:00Resources on Sentence Structure<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Inna Piankovskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422660913965996199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4428656692436656932.post-30474100684131056142016-08-14T12:49:00.001-07:002016-08-14T12:49:04.710-07:00Elementary English Videos<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfipSaI0HPc"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">English Result</span></a><br />
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<li><b>storytelling becomes shared experience</b> (students are genuinely interested in the stories created by their peers and gladly respond and give feedback)</li>
<li><b>Storybird tools help unleash creativity</b> (looking at how diverse the students' stories may get, what pictures they choose to illustrate their stories delivers a powerful message that once given <i>what to do </i>and means to do it without restraining them on <i>how they should do it </i>students demonstrate outstanding results)</li>
<li><b>presenting a story can be a special experience</b> (I held my Storybird class in a different room where we had a projector to have everyone better see the stories and illustrations of one another. Having to read the story to their peers gave many students a chance to be proud of their creations and choose the best way to present them)</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of my students presenting her story <i><a href="https://storybird.com/books/the-cat-that-believed/?token=kgqk24az6d">The Cat That Believed</a></i></td></tr>
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In order to track the progress of your students, it is a good idea to create a class and ask students to join it. This is what I did too. In Storybird, you can comment on others' stories, which is a great way to give feedback. Initially, I was planning to ask students to leave comments in Storybird while their peers were presenting. Unfortunately, the Internet connection wasn't so good to allow this. Therefore, I asked them to write their comments on separate sheets of paper. Later, I took pictures of those and uploaded them in a social network they all use.<br />
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If I had to give advice on how to hold a Storybird class like mine, I'd offer the following tips:<br />
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<li>create a Storybird classroom to keep track of your students' progress and easily find them on the list during a class</li>
<li>make sure there's a good Internet connection (it sounds too trivial but once it's not there the whole idea might fail)</li>
<li>encourage students to ask questions and provide feedback for their peers</li>
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It's likely that initially students won't feel enthusiastic about having to use a new tool like Storybird to create their stories. This was my case. Some students would ask, 'Why can't we do this on paper?' and similar questions. However, after they had created and presented their stories, their attitude changed dramatically and they kept asking me to do this again. Therefore, do not get discouraged by lack of enthusiasm in your students. Once they see what they are capable of, they will develop a different perspective on this kind of tasks. Why rob them of such an opportunity?</div>
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<br />Inna Piankovskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422660913965996199noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4428656692436656932.post-43828725377371613982015-08-15T04:04:00.001-07:002015-08-16T01:22:21.566-07:005 Great YouTube Channels for EFL Classroom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There are so many great posts by blogging teachers who praise the benefits of using videos in the classroom that it's become a must, and rightly so. Authentic material that can engage students and promote further discussion or enhance grammar/vocabulary skills deserves the highest credit. Besides, let's be honest, students love watching videos and prefer them to coursebook exercises and routines. What can be challenging for a teacher in this situation is how to select a proper video for the EFL classroom. My top criteria are:<br />
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- it should be easy to understand but contain some unknown vocabulary<br />
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In this post, I would like to outline 5 YouTube channels that I normally browse to find videos for my classroom. Naturally, there are much more than that but before I start looking for specific videos using search filters, I resort to these. One thing that these channels have in common is that it's possible to find videos on any topic. This is especially important for me as I have a textbook-based course that involves dealing with various subject areas. What is more, the videos are short and of high quality.<br />
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1. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/OUlearn/">Open University</a></h3>
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This is a great channel to find short videos on academia related topics (philosophy, social sciences etc.). In addition, the way of presenting information could well be the subject of study for students.</div>
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If you seek some thought provoking stuff, this channel is a right place to start. The authors of the videos have a goal to debunk common misconceptions about anything they lay their eyes on.</div>
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The videos on this channel try to answer important questions of life with the help of culture. "How To Find Fulfilling Work?", "What Is Success?" are among them. What's more, they use engaging infographic.</div>
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<br />Inna Piankovskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422660913965996199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4428656692436656932.post-38565309091114314442015-08-03T12:53:00.003-07:002015-08-03T12:59:00.318-07:00Student Blogging: Appearance, Character, Relationships<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Naturally, the blogging task my students considered to be one of the most compelling was the one related to the topic "Appearance. Character. Relationships". It didn't come as a surprise to me as young people are always eager to talk about their friends, roommates and dates. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">To help them make their stories full of great collocations, phrasal verbs and idioms, I offered them some online resources apart from the basic wordlist:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">A lesson on PHRASAL VERBS related to relationships:</span></b></span><br style="color: #666666; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><a href="http://www.espressoenglish.net/phrasal-verbs-for-romantic-relationships/" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.espressoenglish.net/phrasal-verbs-for-romantic-relationships/</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">Interactive vocabulary exercises:</span></b></span><br style="color: #666666; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><a href="http://www.expandyourvocabulary.com/personality/exercise5.swf" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.expandyourvocabulary.com/personality/exercise5.swf</a><br style="color: #666666; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><a href="http://www.expandyourvocabulary.com/personality/exercise1.swf" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.expandyourvocabulary.com/personality/exercise1.swf</a><br style="color: #666666; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><a href="http://www.expandyourvocabulary.com/friend/exercise2.swf" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.expandyourvocabulary.com/friend/exercise2.swf</a><br style="color: #666666; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><a href="http://learningapps.org/269316" style="color: #4d469c; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;">http://learningapps.org/269316</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In order to practise active vocabulary in speaking, I offered them some role play situations:</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">You have to write a story that meets the following requirements:</span><br style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;" /><span style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">- description of characters</span><br style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;" /><span style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">- some details of their relationship (friendship, romance, parent-child etc; date, falling out, argument etc)</span><br style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;" /><span style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">- dialogs and conversations between characters</span><br style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;" /><span style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"><br /></span><span style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;"></span><span style="text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">Conversations and dialogs will be presented in a form of comic strips created in <a href="http://www.wittycomics.com/" style="text-decoration: none;">http://www.wittycomics.com/</a> or<a href="http://bitstrips.com/create/comic" style="text-decoration: none;">http://bitstrips.com/create/comic</a>. If you wish to present the whole story as a comic strip, you certainly can do this. Otherwise, include at least 3 comic strips in your story.</span><br style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;" /><br style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;" /><span style="line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px;">A rough example, as usual:</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As always, here are some works by my students:</span></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://a212martyniuky.blogspot.com/2015/04/this-is-sunnysunday-morning.html">Yulia</a></span></span><br />
<span style="line-height: 24px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://ruslana-pasichnyk.blogspot.com/2015/04/where-there-is-love-there-is-life-it.html">Ruslana</a></span></span></div>
Inna Piankovskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422660913965996199noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4428656692436656932.post-48276945150605446522015-07-30T12:09:00.000-07:002015-08-03T12:27:09.209-07:00Student Blogging: Travel, Tourism, MigrationFinally, I feel like getting down to blogging again. In this post, I'd like to continue sharing some ideas about a blogging project I did with my students. There have been <a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/search/label/blogging">several posts</a> about it, so this time I'll write about the task my students particularly enjoyed.<br />
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The topic we were working on was related to travel, tourism and migration. In order to practice vocabulary in different ways, I offered them to do <a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/search/label/role%20play">role play situations</a> on travel and tourism and to do the blog task on migration issues. Prior to desinging this course, I managed to find some great resources to help my students learn more about this topic and explore the usage of vocabulary related to it. One of such resources is the <a href="http://tenement.org/immigrate/">interactive activity</a> developed by the Tenement Museum. By doing this activity, students can learn more about immigrants to the USA in the early XX century and their everyday lives. They can take on a personality of an immigrant and explore the harsh realities of their journey and daily struggles. In this quest, they are accompanied by video stories of Victoria, an immigrant girl, who shows them all ins and outs of immigrant life in New York a century ago.<br />
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As my students were completing this quest, they had to accomplish the following task:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Some works by my students:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><a href="http://mrbananasstory.blogspot.com/2015/02/letter-to-victoria.html">Alina</a></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://maria-kravchuk.blogspot.com/2015/02/on-move.html">Maria</a></span><br />
<a href="http://dreamaboutpast.blogspot.com/2015/02/dear-victoria-how-are-you-how-are-your.html">Alexander</a>Inna Piankovskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422660913965996199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4428656692436656932.post-65310199935516383392015-04-04T10:07:00.001-07:002015-04-08T12:42:03.869-07:00History LessonsLast week my students and I were discussing outstanding historical figures and remarkable events in our English classes as long as the topic of the unit was called "History lessons". As a rule, I like adding some extra activities to those suggested in a coursebook (and I believe I'm not alone here). Being a genuine history lover, I designed some activities based on information I'd come across surfing the net. So here's my list.<br />
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1. <b>A funny warm-up </b><i>"You'd never believe it"</i>. I found some unusual facts about well-known people and wrote down their names on the blackboard. Then I would present the facts like this: "<i>This person .... did so and so...</i>" and have students guess. After presenting all the facts I asked them what they remembered about each person from the list. We had a lot of fun! A worksheet can be found <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6i20Zdk5v5bMklpOEF4bGlpbU0&authuser=0">here</a>.<br />
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2. <b>Short jigsaw reading </b><i>"Dating tips"</i>. I found this information in this<a href="http://mnsho.com/2012/10/01/dating-advice-from-historical-figures/"> blog</a> and thought it would be cool to use it with my students. The post was about imaginary replies of famous historical figures to commonplace dating problems of different people. I arranged problem letters and the replies in a table and printed it out. In class, some students got the letters and others got the replies. The task was to match a problem letter with a corresponding reply. The worksheet is <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6i20Zdk5v5bNTExSlZ6SXRNdGM/view?usp=sharing">here</a>.<br />
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3. <b>A speaking task</b> <i>"Portrait Interviews"</i> (from <i>How to Teach English</i> by Jeremy Harmer). In pairs or small groups, students choose a portrait depicting a person or event from the past. Their task is to present a conversation that might have taken place between the people depicted in the picture. If there's only one person on the portrait, they could present it as an interview with him/her. I've just given this task to my students so I'm looking forward to their presentations. I'm sure they will come up with something special. I was also thinking to help them with a choice of a portrait by using this great tool by Classtools: <a href="http://www.classtools.net/3D/">3D Gallery</a><br />
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.... and finally decided to do it: <a href="http://www.classtools.net/3D/201504_hauPCv">http://www.classtools.net/3D/201504_hauPCv</a><br />
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<i>The Arnolfini portrait </i>by Jan van Eyck<br />
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This is the task my students had to fulfil for the topic "Media, News and Celebrity". In the class, we had a discussion about freedom of speech. The questions I used can be found on the site <a href="http://www.esldiscussions.com/f/freedom_of_speech.html">ESL Discussions</a>.<br />
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As far as the task for their blogs is concerned, they had to use <a href="http://www.classtools.net/FB/home-page">Fakebook </a>to create a profile of a celebrity they like.<br />
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Imagine that a world celebrity (of your choice) paid a visit to your college/school (the reason and purpose are also up to you). You have to create a fake facebook profile of this celebrity with his/her updates concerning this visit (up to 250 words, 20-25 active words and expressions) and embed it in your blog. Remember to add pictures and/or videos, as well as his/her friends' comments to make it more interesting.<br />
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Use this tool: <a href="http://www.classtools.net/FB/home-page">http://www.classtools.net/FB/home-page</a><br />
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Here's one of the existing profiles of Johnny Cash:<br />
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<b><span style="color: #45818e;">Some works of my students:</span></b></div>
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<a href="http://www.classtools.net/FB/1398-muZUps">Dylan O'Brien</a> by Hanna </div>
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<a href="http://www.classtools.net/FB/1785-5H8Cfn">Audrey Hepburn</a> by Alina</div>
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<a href="http://www.classtools.net/FB/1075-CBswyS">Mila Kunis</a> by Sasha</div>
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<b><span style="color: #45818e;">More on student blogging:</span></b></div>
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<a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/03/vocabulary-course-resources-on-word.html">Word formation</a><br />
<a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/02/student-blogging-vocabulary-sci-fi.html">Vocabulary web-tools</a><br />
<a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/03/student-blogging-newsjack.html">Newsjack tutorial</a><br />
<a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/03/student-blogging-voki-tutorial.html">Voki tutorial</a><br />
<a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/03/student-blogging-education-and-mind-maps.html">Mind maps</a><br />
<a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/03/student-blogging-body-language.html">Body Language</a><br />
<a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/03/student-blogging-houses-and-buildings.html">Houses and Buildings</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: #45818e;">Ideas for teaching vocabulary with web-tools:</span></b><br />
Vocabulary course tips <a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2014/07/approaching-vocabulary-course.html">Part 1</a>, <a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2014/07/approaching-vocabulary-course-part-2.html">Part 2</a><br />
<a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2014/08/let-there-be-content.html">Creating content using web</a></div>
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Inna Piankovskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422660913965996199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4428656692436656932.post-86301681083410525842015-03-21T11:11:00.001-07:002015-06-14T10:10:32.237-07:00Student Blogging: Houses and Buildings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is the task I designed for my students' blogs to get them to recycle vocabulary on topic "Houses and Buildings". As you know, the wordlist usually includes the names of various types of houses, parts of a house etc. So I was thinking about a task that would somehow encompass using as many of those words as possible. Finally, I managed to come up with this one, which proved to by lots of fun for many students. As a little addition to their writing they had to paste a short video (up to 1 minute) they had to shoot themselves.<br />
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- imagine you're an alien who finds him/herself on earth and has to send a message to his/her friends about a place where they can find him/her;<br />
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- fortunately, you find yourself near a building (of your choice), so you need to make a video of it showing as many details as possible (outside and/or inside) (up to 1 minute);<br />
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- in your blogpost, you will describe a building, some details of the surrounding area and/or story related to it.</div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Some works of my students</b></span>:</div>
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<a href="http://poorphilologist.blogspot.com/2014/11/imin-trouble-say-theleast-i-faced-with.html">Olesia</a></div>
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<a href="http://nadiamarkovets.blogspot.com/2014/11/letter-to-my-dear-alien-friends.html">Nadia</a></div>
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<a href="http://doublejislove.blogspot.com/2014/11/an-aliens-message.html">Hanna</a></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">More on student blogging:</span></b></div>
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<a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/03/vocabulary-course-resources-on-word.html">Word formation</a><br />
<a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/02/student-blogging-vocabulary-sci-fi.html">Vocabulary web-tools</a><br />
<a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/03/student-blogging-newsjack.html">Newsjack tutorial</a><br />
<a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/03/student-blogging-voki-tutorial.html">Voki tutorial</a><br />
<a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/03/student-blogging-education-and-mind-maps.html">Mind maps</a><br />
<a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/03/student-blogging-body-language.html">Body Language</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">Ideas for teaching vocabulary with web-tools:</span></b><br />
Vocabulary course tips <a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2014/07/approaching-vocabulary-course.html">Part 1</a>, <a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2014/07/approaching-vocabulary-course-part-2.html">Part 2</a><br />
<a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2014/08/let-there-be-content.html">Creating content using web</a></div>
Inna Piankovskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422660913965996199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4428656692436656932.post-8061521035699647452015-03-19T06:29:00.000-07:002015-03-21T12:19:54.271-07:00Student Blogging: Body Language<div>
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The task for students' blogs on the topic "Body language" included taking pictures and pasting them in the blog. As long as it was one of the tasks in the first term some students still had to learn how to do it. However, they could go further and try the tool called <a href="http://phrase.it/">phrase.it</a> to add speech bubbles. It proved to be lots of fun for many, especially those who tried to take pictures of their groupmates or roommates. </div>
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1. Your blogpost will be based on the observations of your groupmates as well as other students (and teachers too if you will) regarding body language they use in different situations. Be observant!<br />
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2. Take several pictures of people using their body language to include in your post (make sure you get their permission first). They may logically fit in your narration or you me provide them with additional comments. You may also add captions to your pictures using this site: <a href="http://phrase.it/">http://phrase.it/</a><br />
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It might look like this:<br />
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Sites to learn about body language:<br />
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<a href="http://changingminds.org/techniques/body/body_language.htm">http://changingminds.org/techniques/body/body_language.htm</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Read-Body-Language">http://www.wikihow.com/Read-Body-Language</a></div>
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<b><span style="color: #990000;">GOOD LUCK!</span></b></div>
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<b>Some works of my students:</b></div>
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<b><a href="http://poorphilologist.blogspot.com/2014/10/body-language.html">Olesia</a></b></div>
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<b><a href="http://doublejislove.blogspot.com/2014/10/you-see-but-you-dont-observe-c.html">Hanna</a></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: #741b47;">More on student blogging:</span></b><br />
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<a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/03/vocabulary-course-resources-on-word.html">Word formation</a><br />
<a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/02/student-blogging-vocabulary-sci-fi.html">Vocabulary web-tools</a><br />
<a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/03/student-blogging-newsjack.html">Newsjack tutorial</a><br />
<a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/03/student-blogging-voki-tutorial.html">Voki tutorial</a><br />
<a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/03/student-blogging-education-and-mind-maps.html">Mind maps</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: #741b47;">Ideas for teaching vocabulary with web-tools:</span></b><br />
Vocabulary course tips <a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2014/07/approaching-vocabulary-course.html">Part 1</a>, <a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2014/07/approaching-vocabulary-course-part-2.html">Part 2</a><br />
<a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2014/08/let-there-be-content.html">Creating content using web</a><br />
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Inna Piankovskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422660913965996199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4428656692436656932.post-5101898116973479842015-03-16T09:29:00.003-07:002015-08-15T05:46:24.502-07:00Student Blogging: Education and Mind Maps<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I designed this task for my students' blogs when we were discussing the topic "Education". This took place in the second term, after I revised my approach to the tasks. Namely, I decided to provide them with the material to work with (videos, interactive games, articles etc.) prior to the blogging task so that they could see and/or hear how active vocabulary is used. Additionally, the content of the offered material might inspire them to better shape their ideas and further express them. Thus, in this task my students had to watch videos on education to later present their views on the issues discussed. Their reflection had to be accompanied by a mindmap created in <a href="http://coggle.it/">Coggle</a>.<br />
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In the videos below you will hear two renowned and visionary educators, Sugata Mitra and Sir Ken Robinson, present their ideas on the present an future of education. While you're listening, jot down the ideas you find complelling, controversial or impossible to agree with, i.e. those that inspire you to express your own opinion on them. It is particularly important to single out the ideas that YOU personally find thought provoking.<br />
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Now that you have watched the videos, write a blogpost where you will include some ideas (not more than 4) that you've jotted down and express your opinion on them. Requirements: 200-250 words, 20-25 active vocabulary expressions.<br />
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Think about your own ways to improve education system in your country based on what you have learned from the videos. Present your ideas in a mindmap created with this tool: <a href="http://coggle.it/">coggle.it</a> and add it to your blogpost. You will need to sign up using your google account.<br />
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A very rough example just to give you an idea what it looks like:<br />
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Once you've created a mindmap, you can download it as an image and paste in your blog, or choose the option "share publicly" (then you have to copy the code and paste it in your blog).<br />
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<b><span style="color: #a64d79;">GOOD LUCK!</span></b></div>
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Some works by my students:<br />
<a href="http://mrbananasstory.blogspot.com/2015/02/educational.html">Alina</a><br />
<a href="http://a212lesnianska.blogspot.com/2015/02/education.html">Kristina</a><br />
<a href="http://poorphilologist.blogspot.com/2015/02/learning-instead-of-studying-its-common.html">Olesia</a><br />
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More on student blogging: <a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/03/student-blogging-voki-tutorial.html">Creating a Company</a> (plus Voki tutorial), <a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/03/student-blogging-newsjack.html">World News</a> (Newsjack tutorial), <a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/03/vocabulary-course-resources-on-word.html">Word formation</a>, <a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/02/student-blogging-vocabulary-sci-fi.html">Vocabulary Web Tools</a>.<br />
<br />Inna Piankovskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422660913965996199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4428656692436656932.post-47659957465760810912015-03-15T05:35:00.000-07:002015-08-15T05:46:00.543-07:00Student Blogging: A Voki Tutorial<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This the task I offered my students so that they could recycle vocabulary on topic "Jobs ans Professions". Apart from a company description they had to provide, the task included using a tool "Voki" to create a speaking avatar. The tutorial was presented in the task.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #741b47;">THE BLOG TASK</span></b>:<br />
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This time you will try on a role of an entrepreneur and try to describe a company (or an organisation) you would like to set up as if you have already done it. Therefore, describe it in a promotional manner to attract new employees.<br />
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<i>- general characteristic (the sphere of activity, aims, rules and MOTTO);<br />- working conditions (pay, perks etc.)<br />- descriptions of positions available (two or three),<br />- qualities that employees should possess <br />- any other details that you find relevant.</i><br />
Besides, you will have to incorporate some gimmicks in your post. This time you will have to create speaking avatars using site <a href="http://voki.com/">http://voki.com/</a>. Follow these steps:<br />
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1. Start a new post and make sure you enable this option in your settings :<br />
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2. Go to <a href="http://voki.com/">http://voki.com/</a><br />
3. Choose "Create"<br />
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3. Choose a character from many suggested categories (you may as well select a background, choose character's outfit etc.):<br />
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4. Give your character a voice! The site offers different options: by phone, text-to-speech or recording with a microphone. You have to choose EITHER text-to-speech OR record option. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLnuVQcvradw5MOcO3id9iVfn4N56czWZRsTR3unBP-MqCHyoJudQVu08IOsftJq8KoaOTELUrLosj3c-pV4sDsrNifGZaP6j0pfaCknmqkQmS63fPUwfuxF3_J3hCygu-0lPMSFFLFcU0/s1600/voki4.JPG"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLnuVQcvradw5MOcO3id9iVfn4N56czWZRsTR3unBP-MqCHyoJudQVu08IOsftJq8KoaOTELUrLosj3c-pV4sDsrNifGZaP6j0pfaCknmqkQmS63fPUwfuxF3_J3hCygu-0lPMSFFLFcU0/s1600/voki4.JPG" /></a></div>
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If you use text-to-speech option, you can either type or paste the text you wish. You also have an option to choose a male or female voice and an accent. Have fun trying out different options!<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9oSCVKgJsj8wrj47VV0gGwQKGgTBZ0VH31rYnUf5m9Hj-V78zn8MnyIKuqv0llSJS12Zy5Rgf5jPuY_WYc-DAz-o1k-ERKth6yzSb_itgXVnBYs7n0RdCphvz_KjbruqqmOblGdvjkwQ3/s1600/voki5.JPG"><img border="0" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9oSCVKgJsj8wrj47VV0gGwQKGgTBZ0VH31rYnUf5m9Hj-V78zn8MnyIKuqv0llSJS12Zy5Rgf5jPuY_WYc-DAz-o1k-ERKth6yzSb_itgXVnBYs7n0RdCphvz_KjbruqqmOblGdvjkwQ3/s400/voki5.JPG" width="400" /></a></div>
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Now, what is your Voki avatar going to talk about? Obviously, about something relevant to the company you have created. Your Voki avatar could be a boss giving introductory info, an employee sharing impressions about his or her workplace, a new manager who has got promoted or anybody related to your company. Let your imagination do the work! What you have to bear in mind is that you have to use active vocabulary and the number of signs you can input (around 850).<br />
If you wish to record your voice, you can speak up to one minute.<br />
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5. After you have created your avatar, embed it in your post. That is how you're going to do this:<br />
- press "Publish" and name your avatar<br />
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- press "save" and close the window that will pop up:<br />
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- copy the code and paste it in your blog (the code is long, so make sure you cope the whole thing):<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVr4-MqMrz3t7ALhSl2_d59ADgQTTny2FXikl5D3G5E0WYIquhKCxH19PWgCbnmCI_spleFA1AZFsGdEdTWzVwZ9E_nPA3lBpR396oExw_RkeB0OhgztL4Tbw3F8aw2U04x9OrnzMjlkxI/s1600/voki8.JPG"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVr4-MqMrz3t7ALhSl2_d59ADgQTTny2FXikl5D3G5E0WYIquhKCxH19PWgCbnmCI_spleFA1AZFsGdEdTWzVwZ9E_nPA3lBpR396oExw_RkeB0OhgztL4Tbw3F8aw2U04x9OrnzMjlkxI/s1600/voki8.JPG" /></a></div>
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- if you've done everything properly, your code will turn into an avatar as soon as you publish your post. If you wish you may create more than one avatar!<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Good luck!</span></span></div>
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<i><b>Some works by my students:</b></i></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="http://dreamaboutpast.blogspot.com/2014/11/advertising-agency-funny-money.html">Alexander</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="http://doublejislove.blogspot.com/2014/11/normal-0-false-false-false-ru-x-none-x.html">Hanna</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><a href="http://mrbananasstory.blogspot.com/2014/11/mr-bananas-company.html">Alina</a></span></div>
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Inna Piankovskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422660913965996199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4428656692436656932.post-90707527660193006782015-03-12T12:14:00.002-07:002015-08-15T05:47:26.064-07:00Student Blogging: Newsjack tutorial<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">This is the task I gave my students so that they could practice using vocabulary of several units we had covered. They had to produce one news item and </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">several headlines </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">based on college events. The task also encompassed a short tutorial to the site </span><a href="http://newsjack.in/" style="color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;">http://newsjack.in/</a>.<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">TASK FOR THE BLOG</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">This time you have a chance to feel like a journalist of one of the world's leading newspapers. Follow these steps to accomplish your task:</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">1) Go to site </span><a href="http://newsjack.in/" style="color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;">http://newsjack.in/</a><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">2) Enter the URL of the newspaper. You may want to choose out of these: </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/" style="color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.nytimes.com/</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">, </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/" style="color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/</a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">, </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/" style="color: #4d469c; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;">http://www.washingtonpost.com/</a><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Press "</span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Remix</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">"</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">3) Now let the magic begin! You can edit any part of the newspaper by clicking it. You can even change pictures! Your task is to fill the front page with the news from our university using at least 20 words from the units mentioned in section 3. Change headlines and content of the news reports, articles and other entries. The main part of the task is to write one report based on a recent event (up to 150 words). </span><b style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">TIP</b><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">: Have your report typed in Word before pasting it onto the Newsjack site.</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">4) After you have made the changes and typed/pasted your report, press "Share Your Remix". You will see a link to your remix, which you have to copy and paste in your blog.</span><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><br style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">5) As you can see there are quite many headlines and reports on the front page. You don't have to change everything, of course (however, you can do it if you wish). Make sure you have ONE extended report (up to 150 words) and change the content on the part of the newspaper that is available on your screen without scrolling down, i.e. this much:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><b>Some examples of my students' work:<br /><a href="http://nsjk.in/544bdd248b0f4">Alla</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><b><a href="http://nsjk.in/544ec0a09b699">Christina</a></b></span></span></div>
Inna Piankovskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422660913965996199noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4428656692436656932.post-63414934907173521022015-03-06T10:30:00.000-08:002015-03-06T12:13:59.218-08:00How Modals Made My DayRecently I've had a class where I planned to brush up on modal verbs with my students. In one of the previous classes they had to make grammar presentations (see soon in my blog), so this time I needed an activity to bring it all together and, naturally, have some fun (you won't blame me for that, will you?).<br />
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1. First, I played this wonderful video for them (without showing the lines) and asked to write down sentences with modal verbs they can hear. The video is a compillation of various song extracts containing modals.</div>
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<i>May it be.</i></div>
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<i>I just can't get you out of my head.</i></div>
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<i>My makeup may be flaking but my smile still stays on.</i></div>
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<i>You've got to let me know, should I stay or should I go.</i></div>
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It's also a good idea to elicit students' answers on what modals express in each sentence (e.g. ability, permission, obligation etc.)<br />
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We had lots of fun when they were reading their pieces! There were extracts from romantic novels, drama, philosophical essays, you name it. It was quite a productive outcome I didn't even expect, especially that this idea was born very much on the spot ))</div>
Inna Piankovskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422660913965996199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4428656692436656932.post-44191933067329035492015-03-05T11:16:00.002-08:002015-03-05T11:16:54.227-08:00Role Play: Travel, Holidays and Tourism<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I find that having my students do the role play is one of the best ways to recycle vocabulary and have fun along the way. So, I offered them to play out the following situations for the class based on the topic "<span style="color: #134f5c;"><i><b>Travel, Holidays and Tourism</b></i></span>".<br />
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You’re a wife. You want a fairytale holiday, preferably on an island. Your
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You’re a husband. Your wife wants to have a holiday that you find too
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You got together with your peers to share some stories about your travel
experiences. Show some pictures from your most memorable journey and explain
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You got together with your peers to share some stories about your travel
experiences. Show some pictures from your most disastrous journey and say what
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stories about your travel experiences. Show some pictures from a trip that was
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Student A.</span></b><span lang="EN-US">
You’re a tourist who bought a package holiday. You were attracted by a
beautiful brochure and expected to see the same once you arrived at the resort.
However, the situation there is far from that described in the brochure. You
talk to the hotel manager about problems you face (e.g. no air-conditioning, no
swimming pool, bad view etc.) and then try to contact your travel agent to ask
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You’re a hotel manager. One of the tourists seems to be upset because of lack
of facilities at your hotel. Try to encourage him and offer other opportunities
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Student C.</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> You’re a travel agent. One of the tourists
calls you to complain about a package holiday he/she bought at your agency. You
know that some information in the brochure was somewhat embellished. Now he/she
wants a partial refund of the holiday cost. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Student A. </span></b><span lang="EN-US">You’re ecstatically happy. You’ve
fallen in love with a boy/girl from the country you are visiting and you’ve
decided you want to buy a house on the beach and live there forever. Tell your
friends about your big decision.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Student B.</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Your friend has something
important to tell you. Listen carefully and then respond: You think your friend’s
gone mad and he/she is going to make a terrible decision. Think of all the
reasons why his/her plan is crazy and convince him/her to come back home with
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<b><span lang="EN-US">Student C.</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Your friend has something
important to tell you. Listen carefully and then respond: You think your friend’s
gone mad and he/she is going to make a terrible decision. Think of all the
reasons why his/her plan is crazy and convince him/her to come back home with
you. </span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Download as a <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6i20Zdk5v5bOVk3MFczWnNkWnM/view?usp=sharing">WORD file</a></span></div>
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Can anyone imagine a vocabulary course without a stopover in the word formation? It's hardly possible. Besides, this issue obviously deserves more time than just a flying visit. Fortunately, I can take advantage of students' independent work and have a bit of a flirt with "flipping" my classroom. That's what it took me this time.<br />
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As I only have one class to discuss word formation, I decided to load my students beforehand to reap the fruit of their effort during the class. This is what was on their menu:</div>
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1<span style="background-color: white;">. <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">Check out this site with the ENORMOUS table full of roots, suffixes and prefixes:</span></span></div>
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2. Watch these videos and note down roots and affixes mentioned in them</div>
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3. Get some practice with the following quizzes on Quizlet:</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #741b47;">Flashcards with prefixes and their meanings: </span></span></b></span><br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://quizlet.com/28757788/english-suffixes-flash-cards/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://quizlet.com/28757788/english-suffixes-flash-cards/</span></a></li>
<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><a href="http://quizlet.com/26089633/noun-suffixes-flash-cards/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://quizlet.com/26089633/noun-suffixes-flash-cards/</span></a></li>
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In the class, we mainly focused on the exercises in the book and finally did a matching activity.</div>
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The worksheet can be downloaded <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6i20Zdk5v5bTTVJSEo1X2dxcm8&authuser=0">HERE</a>.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">1. Choose a quote you like that contains a word with a Greek or Latin root.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">2. Use one of these sites to create a postcard with the quote of your choice:</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><a href="http://www.pinwords.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://www.pinwords.com/</span></a><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><a href="http://www.piclits.com/compose_dragdrop.aspx" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://www.piclits.com/compose_dragdrop.aspx</span></a><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><a href="http://quozio.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">http://quozio.com/</span></a><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">3. Paste the picture you created in your blog.</span><br style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;">4. Write your reflection (180-200 words) on the quote using words that contain affixes or roots we have discussed in the class. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://somethingwierdd.blogspot.com/2014/10/what-is-courage.html">Nadia</a></span></div>
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You can download a <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B6i20Zdk5v5baUlMSVFhd05feWc&authuser=0">DOC worksheet</a> with the description of the cards.</div>
Inna Piankovskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422660913965996199noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4428656692436656932.post-19585506507203800382015-02-21T13:45:00.001-08:002015-02-21T13:59:24.690-08:00The Pursuit of Happiness in the classroom<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In this post, I'd like to share some activities I did with my students when we were discussing the movie "The Pursuit of Happiness".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>1. A quote walkabout</b></span>. Before the class, I printed out the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6i20Zdk5v5bTzQxNWtpZFlCWGM/view?usp=sharing">quotes</a> about persistance and positive attitude to life's challanges and put them on the walls in the classroom. As the class began I asked the students to walk around and read the quotes to find one (or more) that they think illustrates the main message of the film. After they'd studied all the quotes and got back to their seats they explained their choice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #990000;"><b>2. Useful vocabulary.</b></span> Before the discussion, I presented some expressions taken from one of the film reviews. These expressions help students talk about main events and concepts shown in the film. </span><br />
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happens in Chris Gardner’s life to make him and his son become homeless?
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events appear to you to be the result of someone’s fault, poor decisions, or
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intern selected for the job? <o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Taken from: </span></span><a class="_ZR irc_hol" data-ved="0CAYQjB0" href="http://thedailyquotes.com/post/16881" jsaction="mousedown:irc.rl;keydown:irc.rlk" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.2); background-color: #f1f1f1; color: #7d7d7d; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="irc_ho" dir="ltr" style="margin-right: -2px; overflow: hidden; padding-right: 2px; text-overflow: ellipsis; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;">thedailyquotes.com</span></a></span></div>
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</b><i>Does Chris achieve his result in the end due to his intelligence, effort, or
just luck? Explain the role of each component (a mind map).</i></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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is something that can only be pursued or can it be captured?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">How does he pursue happiness?</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">How do you pursue happiness?</span></span></b></i></div>
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Other posts with movie worksheets: <a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2014/05/big-fish-movie-worksheets.html">Big Fish</a>, <a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-prestige-movie-worksheets.html">The Prestige</a>, <a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2014/04/film-worksheet-last-mimzy.html">The Last Mimzy</a></div>
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In my <a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2015/02/student-blogging-vocabulary-sci-fi.html">previous post</a>, I shared a task I had designed for my students to have them use web-tools for exploring and learning vocabulary. However, I believe it would be incomplete without sharing the outline of the class I'd had with them prior to giving them the assignment. This outline was published in our class blog, so at the beginning of the class my students would open it to follow the instructions. <br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Open these links to online dictionaries and look up the meaning of the same word using both of them:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="DE"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://www.thefreedictionary.com/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">http://www.thefreedictionary.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">What do these dictionaries have in common?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">What are distinguishing features of each of them?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Which dictionary do you think you are more likely to use? Why?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #274e13;">Visualising vocabulary</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Open the site </span><a href="http://graphwords.com/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;"><span lang="EN-US">http://graphwords.com/</span></a><span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">pick up a word from the list: access, challenge, address, language (or any other from your vocabulary notebook)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">paste it on the given page<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">observe the wordmap:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">o<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">How many related concepts are there?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">o<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">How many verbs/nouns/adjective are there?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">o<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">How many different meaning fields can you see?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white;">o<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: white;">Click on one of the related words. What happens?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What is your impression of this site?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In which situations are you likely to use it?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Collocations Quest</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1. Go to <a href="http://www.netspeak.org/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">http://www.netspeak.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">What are some opportunities does this site give?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Try each of the options.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">What feedback would you give after using this site?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">How useful may it be to you as a language learner?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2. Go to <a href="http://www.just-the-word.com/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">http://www.just-the-word.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Choose a word to input from the list: language, speak, contact.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">What types of collocations can you see?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">How many of them are familiar to you?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">What happens when you click on a collocation?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">What happens when you click on “View as a wordle” button?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">What is your opinion of this tool? Would you use it regularly<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">It’s all about context</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Go to <a href="http://fraze.it/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">http://fraze.it/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Choose a collocation from the previous exercise and enter it on this page<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">What opportunities does this site give you?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">What additional options can you find in the left side menu?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">Go to the source of one of the sentences. What is the article about?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">What is your impression of this tool? How may it be useful for a language learner?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Practice makes perfect</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Click on this link:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="http://quizlet.com/13494618/multilingual-internet-flash-cards/" style="color: #4d469c; text-decoration: none;">http://quizlet.com/13494618/multilingual-internet-flash-cards/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US">What method of learning and revising vocabulary is this site based on?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span lang="EN-US">–<span style="font-size: 7pt;"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">What options for studying vocabulary can you find on this site?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When I was to design a vocabulary course I decided I would take advantage of web-technologies and the opportunities they provide for language learning. In some of my posts (<a href="http://maria-kravchuk.blogspot.com/2014/09/vocabulary-sci-fi.html">here</a> and <a href="http://english-teacher-exposed.blogspot.com/2014/07/approaching-vocabulary-course-part-2.html">here</a>), I was trying to put together a list of approaches and tools that appealed to me. Now, that I've covered half of the way, I feel like sharing some practices I've applied, especially that they proved to be working for my students. Therefore, I'm going to present the tasks they had to accomplish in their blogs. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: #3d85c6; color: #666666; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.5px;">In your post “Vocabulary Sci-Fi”, you will be addressing your peers from the past (20-30 years ago) explaining to them what opportunities you have today to learn English. </span></span><br style="background-color: #3d85c6; color: #666666; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="background-color: #3d85c6; color: #666666; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #3d85c6; color: #666666; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"></span><span style="background-color: #3d85c6; color: #666666; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.5px;">Apart from that you will have to incorporate these elements in your story:</span></span><br style="background-color: #3d85c6; color: #666666; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="background-color: #3d85c6; color: #666666; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.5px;">- choose a word (from Unit 1 in Upstream) <b>to make a word map (<a href="http://graphwords.com/">graphwords.com</a>) </b>and insert the picture in your blogpost.</span></span><br style="background-color: #3d85c6; color: #666666; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;" /><span style="background-color: #3d85c6; color: #666666; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.5px;">- Use another word to look up the collocations in “just the word”, <b>create a word cloud (<a href="http://wordle.net/">wordle.net</a>) </b>and insert the picture in your blogpost.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #3d85c6; color: #666666; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.5px;">- Choose one expression to find example sentences in<b> </b></span><a href="http://vk.com/away.php?to=http%3A%2F%2Ffraze.it" style="background-color: white; color: #2b587a; cursor: pointer; line-height: 16.5px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><b>fraze.it</b></a><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.5px;">, limit your search to the topic of “Education”. Choose one sentence to see the source article and <b>copy one paragraph. </b>In this paragraph, <b>highlight several collocations </b>that you found interesting. </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.5px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.5px;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #3d85c6; color: #666666; line-height: 18.2000007629395px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.5px;">- Choose 10 words/expressions from the text “The theatre for the deaf” (p. 14-15.) to <b>create a flashcard set </b>in Quizlet (<b><a href="http://quizlet.com/">quizlet.com</a></b>). Paste the link in your post.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 16.5px;"><a href="http://alla-kuznietsova.blogspot.com/2014/09/vocabulary-sci-fi.html">Alla</a> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Grammar and vocabulary exercises, study tips, tests and much more. Plus Business English section.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A comprehensive collection of grammar rules, exercises (online and downloadable) and many useful tools.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">An amazing resourse full of grammar exercises (online practice and downloadable worksheets).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A grammar directory where you can choose exercises according to levels and topics.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A wonderful collection of grammar exercises of different types.</span></div>
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Inna Piankovskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03422660913965996199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4428656692436656932.post-69086104695659850652015-01-16T04:34:00.002-08:002015-01-19T04:44:08.665-08:00All four corners of the classroomEven though most of my students are not reluctant speakers and eagerly contribute to discussions in classroom, I know that changing format of the speaking assignment can be beneficial so as to unleash their hidden potential. This is especially true when they have to deal with the task format they are not familiar with. Recently, I've had a chance to once again confirm these assuptions of mine. As long as we started the unit on modern lifestyle and trends in society I decided to offer them a "<a href="http://www.inter-lakes.k12.nh.us/ilhs/AVID/4%20Corner%20Debate.pdf">Four Corners game</a>" to let them express their views on various current trends and fads.<br />
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The activity is very easy to set as it only requires attaching four A4 sheets of paper in four corners of the classroom. The statements I've chosen for this activity are based on the ideas we brainstormed in the class the day before.</div>
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The class turned out to be even more exciting than I expected. What's more, I was quite surprised by many students' choices and opinions. Very often it looked like they discovered each other in a new interesting way! What makes this activity even more successful is the fact that students can move and not just sit and answer the questions. </div>
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All in all, if you haven't tried this wonderful activity yet, it's high time you did!</div>
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