Blog marco de los cursos por videoconferencia "Creativity in the Infant and Primary English Class" y "Creativity in the Secondary English Class" 2021-2022 y del GT online "Creativity in the English Class"
This is an AWESOME web page. It is totally free and it has everything you can think of for English teachers or even teachers of different subjects in English. Besides, you can have them answer the questions one by one or play in teams, which they love!
BAAMBOOZLE es otra plataforma sencilla para integrar el juego a la educación. Permite crear y jugar juegos de preguntas y respuestas para la introducción, repaso o evaluación de lecciones escolares. La página permite buscar lecciones creadas por otros usuarios y es adaptable a todos los niveles educativos.
Se puede utilizar para cualquier nivel educativo.
En este enlace podéis leer más sobre esta herramienta y al final tenéis un videotutorial que explica cómo funciona la plataforma y cómo crear un test para hacer el juego en equipos.
Wordwall is an amazing website for students. You can play with them projecting it for the whole class or sending them the link of the activities they must do. They love it!
You just need to register and it is totally free. There are different games and you can also create some (if you want to create a lot you will have to pay for this). There, you can find spinning wheels, definition games, who wants to be millionaire, questionnaires...
¿QUÉ ES/POSIBILIDADES? (por Silvia Valenciaga)
WORDWALL es una aplicación web que permite crear actividades tanto interactivas como imprimibles a partir de plantillas. Una vez creadas, permite cambiar la plantilla y cambiar el tipo de actividad con un solo click. También se puede usar y editar actividades creadas por otros usuarios así como imprimirlas.
Estas plantillas incluyen clásicos familiares como Concurso y Crucigrama. También tenemos juegos tipo arcade como Persecución del laberinto y Avión, y hay herramientas de gestión del aula como Plan de asientos.
Una vez hayamos creado una actividad, podemos cambiarla a una plantilla diferente con un solo clic. Esto nos ahorra tiempo y es ideal para la diferenciación y el refuerzo.
Por ejemplo, si hemos creado una actividad de Partido basada en los nombres de las formas, podemos convertirlo en un Crucigrama con exactamente los mismos nombres de formas.
De la misma manera, podemos convertir sus recursos en un Concurso o una Sopa de letras y muchas más posibilidades también.
¿CÓMO LA PODEMOS USAR EN EL AULA?
Podemos repasar vocabulario en torno a diferentes temáticas y estructuras gramaticales de forma muy variada y motivadora.
A motivating way for students to listen to a teacher reading a story or a book is the use of this sounds box.
While my colleague was reading a book to the students I was pushing the bottom of the corresponding sound. The story became alive and the children lived the story as if they were inside the book.
Laughs sound, music sound, ideas sound, clapping hands sound... It is a fantastic device that you may find on different online shops. However, I bought mine in a physical shop called TIGER. It's cheap and I'm sure you would use it very often.
This is an example I've found on the Internet of how to enjoy a different activity each day of December until Christmas day comes.
It is and advent calendar made by QR codes. Each day we scan the QR code and we find a "surprise" on the screen of the digital board (a Christmas song, a Christmas story, a Christmas craft...).
We can use this idea for any other month of the year to teach and learn different topics.
This is made for printing in PDF format but we can make one using CANVA which allows you to create and insert QR codes and put them on the poster you design.
I use hand made materials (aluminium foil and paper card to build a floor piano) connected to a circuit board and alligators clips to produce music. My students learn about the properties of conductors and insulators at the same time they have fun.
Today I want to share with you an activity I found on Twitter entitled: CRAZY READING by @AzaharaZayr. I have changed it, so that it can be used in the English classroom with secondary students. However, it is very easy to adapt it to primary students.
It is ‘crazy’ because as our students’ reading pace is different, at some point some will be singing carols, while other people will be dancing, another person will be writing his/her
new year resolutions, and the like.
It might be the perfect level of craziness for the last day of school, don’t you think?
