The warmer activity I selected for my students today, was aimed at reinforcing structures which my students had problems with in their last written test: verbs accompanied by gerund or infinitive.I typed a stem sentence on LIVETYPING and elicited a possible ending for the sentence. Then, I invited different students to erase the rest of the sentence after the stem and write another variation.With one group, the beginning was MY FATHER MANAGED ... and with the other group I REGRET ...After different students typed their contributions, I clicked ENLIVEN and students could see all their sentences again. Then, I grabbed the embed code and shared it in our edmodo group. The video below shows how the two activities looked in edmodo.

Interesting Matching Game we can use in class (with IWB) or students can play it individually with PCs.BUBBABRAINI tried the games under the ELEMENTARY LEVEL and these are the sections I liked the most:EnglishPicturesTelling the timeAs the game times you, you can have different group of students repeat the activity and do it faster.http://www.bubbabrain.comA game for suffixes and their meanings.Match the pictures to the wordsMatch analogical clocks to digital times

Time to test ZOOBURST and wish everyone a great Easter. It's always time to be born again, to change attitudes, reflect about your choices, consider your priorities in life and above all share love with friends, family and those in need.Happy EasterOrkut Scraps and Graphics - GoodLightscraps.com

Picture Description is a skill our students need to develop for the Oral tests at our school and for the Cambridge exams. Challenge #5 asked students to choose an image and record a description for it. This way students have plenty of examples of what is required of them. These are some of the descriptions created by them at home. All their FOTOBABBLES have been published in the SCHOOL WIKI and shared with parents.

The aim of the lesson was to help students create dialogues where they would discuss a topic and agree/ disagree with each other. (Book used: Face2Face Upper Intermediate)The proposed taskI was amazed at the number of cell phones which could record audio in class. I'll definitely use them for recording more often. My students created the dialogues in class (in pairs / trios), I had a look at it for more serious mistakes and then they practised reading the dialogue, trying not to speak too fast and to sound as natural as possible. Students then used their cell phones to record their dialogue. Many of them had to record themselves 7 or 8 times before they were happy with the result.Isn't it wonderful? Which other way would students read the same dialogue 8 TIMES.These are some of their recordings:Topic: Friends give the best adviceListen!Topic: 20 is a good age to get marriedListen! All their recordings have been shared in the SCHOOL WIKI

This is the collection of links I shared in Twitter today.They are all Youtube related sites.Click on the image to see the JOGTHE WEB pagehttp://www.jogtheweb.com/run/xR4Bt3pPSkfz/Cool-things-to-do-with-YOUTUBE-videos#1

I love following Janet's Bianchini's blog "Civitaquana - Janet's Abruzzo's blog" http://civitaquana.blogspot.com/What I like about it? I love her creative ideas, love the way she uses comics and photo editing tools to make her images even more interesting, love the happy tone of her posts and am enchanted with how willing she is to exchange ideas, help and share.Well, you can imagine how happy I was when she accepted my invitation to present her session to us:  "Digital Storytelling in the Digital Era" . We had very few attendees (maybe because it was Sat. morning), nevertheless, we had a great time learning from her.This is the ppt she used during her talk:Storytelling in the Digital Era View more presentations from Janet Bianchini I loved her idea of using different webtools to narrate the same story.You can listen to her session HERE. Click VIEW RECORDING.As we waited for more attendees to join us, my suggestion is to let the recording upload a bit and then watch it as of 18 mins after the beginning of the recording.

Last Thursday night, I had the pleasure to participate with other Brazilian EFL teachers in a discussion about "MOTIVATION". #BReltChat is a initiative by Bruno Andrade, inspired by the #ELTchat discussions which happen in twitter with teachers worldwide.#BReltChat via kwoutApart from moderating discussions which take place every Thursday 9:30 PM (Brasília time), a group of teachers have been publishing a summary of what has been discussed in the #BReltChat BLOG and have interviewed several well known teachers about the topics discussed.The BlogSome interviewsInterview about Dogme with Scott Thornbury from Henrick Oprea on Vimeo.

I'd like share this fantastic presentation by Silvia Tolisano about webtools we can use to help reach our teaching goals. Check out her wonderful blog "THE LANGWITCHES BLOG"She says: "IT'S NOT ABOUT THE TOOL."               "It's about looking at tools to see which one will help you accomplish teaching and learning of 21st Century skills & litteracies"70 Tools 70 Minutes View more presentations from Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano

We're close to the end of our semester and about to finish our Tasks Challenge. During this semester, I've proposed different challenges to students asking them to create animations, comic strips, audio recordings using content recently covered in class.CHECK OUT CHALLENGE #7`This is the example I showed themGoAnimate.com: Challenge 7 by anamariacultLike it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun! Here are some of their animations, CAN YOU IDENTIFY WHAT PHRASAL VERBS THEY USED?:GoAnimate.com: excuses by JúliaLike it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun! GoAnimate.com: Challenge #7 by juliana-pstLike it? Create your own at GoAnimate.com. It's free and fun!More animations can be found at the SCHOOL WIKI.