martes, 22 de febrero de 2022

AIRLINE TICKET GENERATOR

By Laura Benito

Create your own airline ticket through this web page. 

It's very easy to do it. You only have to follow 3 steps.

Write your name and surname, your destination, the boarding time and the airline company you want to fly with.

Then, download your ticket and print it.

It's so fun :D

http://omatic.musicairport.com/



jueves, 17 de febrero de 2022

QUIZ ON IRREGULAR VERBS (GENIALLY)

By Luz Belén de León

This a quick quiz about irregular verbs that I've made with Genially, suItable for the first years of CSE (ESO).

Hope you like it!

Click on the image and enjoy the activity


NEARPOD

By Beatriz Díez


NEARPOD is a website that allows the teacher to make presentations and also include interactive activities such as find pairs, quizzes, draw and guess and collaborative boards. The free version has limited space so you have to eliminate the presentations continuously if you want to create new ones. I mainly use the website for interactive activities in review sessions just before the test. 

I hope you enjoy the resource!

Videotutorials:





NEWS IN LEVELS

By Montserrat Santidrián

News in Levels is an application to improve your English with world news and videos in three levels and you can also test yourself.

Click on the image

I use this website because I can create many activities from it. As most of my students are higher technicians, level 3 would be the appropriate one for them as it is the highest level, but you have levels 1 & 2 which will do for Secondary students as well.


Video resources: BBC ARCHIVE

By Ana Puerto

I've recently found this BBC website where you can see plenty of videos (clips, interviews...) from years gone by. There are, for example, videos from the 1960's, 1970's or 1980's. If you go on the "Collections" section at the top you will find divided sections, such as "Around the UK"; "Arts and Entertainment"; "Children's"; "Society"; "Food and drink"... So you can select videos on whatever topic you are covering in class. I think these videos are really useful to make students compare past times with their own time, and I have found that the interviews to children from the 60's or 70's are really interesting, as you can see how well they expressed themselves (maybe because they read more?).

Here's the link if you're interested!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive


RAP ABOUT CLIMATE CRISIS

By Ana Puerto

Check out this great rap made by Irish kids about the climate crisis and the environment. It's really useful if you're going through that topic in any of your ESO classes:

One Small Change was made by children at the Irish Cappabue National School, near Bantry in Co Cork, as a response to polluted beaches.




"MAY" TO EXPRESS WISHES (FUN WAY TO LEARN)

By Ana Puerto

It is not very usual to see this use of "MAY" in textbooks whenever we have to teach modal verbs (for example in 4th ESO or 1st Bachillerato levels).

That is why I think students MAY also find fun to learn this function of "wishing somebody something" using "may".

I have designed an interactive image on Genially where they will find:

  • An Irish blessing ("May the road rise up to meet you...")
  • A video with Bob Dylan's song "Forever Young" ("May you always be courageous..." / "May your hands always be busy...")
  • A photo of a voodoo doll and some text with funny "bad wishes" for an ex-lover: ("May you grow spots on your back..." / "May you forget all your passwords"...)

As an easy fun activity students can write their own good wishes for a loved person and also some funny bad wishes for somebody who has let them down.

https://view.genial.ly/620145b5dd999c00195f67f7/interactive-image-imagen-interactiva


GREETINGS IN THE MORNING

By Raquel M. Domínguez

One of the resources I usually put into practice, especially before the COVID, is the GREETING CHART. On Monday morning, before the classes start, I welcome my students with the greeting they choose from a chart displayed at the entrance door to the classroom. They choose and we greet. It is really fun and lifts your spirits because it is a marvellous way of starting the morning and the week and they love it!

I hope you like it!





lunes, 14 de febrero de 2022

Online and offline avatars

By Laura Benito

I've just discovered this web page where students can create an avatar selecting the topic they like: superhero, Harry Potter, Manga, Zombie, Vampire, Pirate, Medieval, Star Trek, Goth, Cthulhu or Flags.


Then, they could use his or her avatar in Gamification games, ClassDojo or any other app the teacher uses in class.

https://www.framiq.com/



By Alejandro Gil

Thanx! you made me remind this page I used long ago: https://www.cubeecraft.com/


They can choose their favorite character, download it, and then cut it and create it and use it for their avatars in moodle or in microsoft teams.

martes, 1 de febrero de 2022

MENTIMETER

By Óscar Fuente

MENTIMETER is an application that serves to build interactive presentations with an easy-to-use online editor. You can add questions, polls, quizzes, images, gifs and more to your presentation to create fun and engaging presentations. The students can use their smartphone to connect to the presentation where they can answer questions.

More info in: https://retoensenanzaonlineidiomascfpi.blogspot.com/2022/01/mentimeter.html



Using flyswatters in class

Por Belén Zamanillo

I use flyswatters in my English lessons to review vocabulary specially with the Preschool classroom and Primary 1 and 2. 

It is a very useful resource for me and my students enjoy using it a lot. They learn while playing.

We put the flashcards on the blackboard after reviewing them. Then in pairs I call a word and they have to run and swat it with the flyswatter. 



Por Laura Benito

Great as a TPR activity. I also use this object with my children in Infant levels and they love playing with them. For example, I divide them into two groups and I put some flashcards of a specific topic in the middle (for example clothes). In turns, they have to go running and hit the flashcard the teacher says with the flyswatter.


EDPUZZLE

Por Mario Muñoz Alonso


I normally use in class videos from EDPUZZLE. In this webpage you can find videos from YouTube and you are allowed to include questions on those videos as if it were a comprehension practice. There are plenty of videos created by other users and you can make your own videos with the questions you consider more relevant for your class.

This is an example:

https://edpuzzle.com/media/5c73fbd581b8cf40959d1537

As you can see, there are different type of questions.


WORDLE, a successful word game

By Alejandro Gil Rivero

WORDLE is the game that rocks it right now!! I'm totally into it!!


You have to guess the each-day-word in less than 6 attempts. It gives you clues about the position of the letters that you guess.