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.

I think it's a fun challenge to learn some new English words!

https://www.heraldo.es/noticias/ocio-y-cultura/2022/02/01/como-jugar-wordle-que-es-1549961.html

The Learning Network - New York Times

By Ana Puerto and Cristina de Vega

I've recently found this website. It has plenty of resources to use in class: topics to approach with more advanced students; contests; writing prompts; vocabulary challenges; quizzes...

https://www.nytimes.com/section/learning

Another section of this website that can be useful is "What's going on in this picture?". Students can describe the pictures and join a discussion about them by leaving comments or their opinion.

https://www.nytimes.com/column/learning-whats-going-on-in-this-picture

Another website similar to that one that I think you may already know is the one of BBc learning English

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

I personally like the idioms part... It cannot get more British than that lol

Also the 7 minute video with up to date news a text and questions are always really good.

It is also interesting because it is classified by levels so very easy to go through

Fiction Express

By Beatriz González

Fiction express is a website to encourage reading among our students! They can read in English as well as Spanish. The author writes a chapter and gives students 3 different ways of countinuing the story! Students vote and he continues writing next chapter as students chose. They have quizzes, activities and can even talk on a forum to the author as well as other students. It's really interesting! We got it in our school for free thanks to la Junta de Castilla y León and we are using it this school year in both, English and Spanish.

Hope this helps as you have already talked about all the resources I use on my classes!

Museums' visiting apps

By Alejandro Gil

Recently I've discovered that many museums have developed apps that you can download on your phone to guide you in your visit; perhaps is a way to save paper and to catch digital young people...

• Catedral de Burgos: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jgdelval.rutando.catedralBurgos&hl=es_419&gl=US

• Museo de la Evolución Humana: https://www.museoevolucionhumana.com/es/app-meh

• Museo de la Energía de Ponferrada: https://www.ponferrada.org/turismo/es/museos/fabrica-luz-museo-energia

• Patrimonio Industrial de España: http://www.100patrimonioindustrial.com/Default.aspx

Almost everyone you can choose your language, Spanish or English.

In fact, for this first week after the holidays, I've prepared an activity for my class of technology of 1st of Bach. with the app of the Spanish industrial heritage: as Kristina told us, I made a list with strange names; they had to choose one: they were all related to carbon, mining or steel industry, that is our current lesson; all the names appear in the app. After that I told them about the app: they had to download it and look for their industrial heritage. They have to make a brief of all the content that is in the app and become experts about it. Tomorrow they'll have to tell the rest of the class about his industrial monument and show us some pics on google.

The evaluation is half the exposition and half a kahoot about the pics they will have to make at the end of the presentations. 

By Cristina de Vega

Hello! I think most of the museums have that option right now, I am sending you the link to the ones that I use in class and it is full of Augmented Reality. So this visits mix the interest for the place, the concepts of whatever we are trying to learn but also we go into the digital world with AR.

AR VISITS

 

Zoos and Aquariums

San Diego Zoo

Shedd Aquarium

SeaWorld

Bronx Zoo

Museums

British Museum

Musée du Louvre

Prado Museum

Museum of Science

Vatican Museum

Landmarks

Buckingham Palace

Ellis Island

Mount Rushmore

The White House

Farms

American        Egg Board

Bright Farms

Farm Food 360