LET ' S READ !!!

JOSEPH CONRAD

Do you want to read...?

   - Heart of Darkness
   - The Secret Agent
   - Lord Jim
   - The nigger of the Narcissus


Link here and choose one of them

PHONICS FOR ALL AGES

"Practice makes perfect, so perfect your practice" P.F.

 

Book 1: Beginning consonants

Book 2: Ending consonants

Book 3: Consonant Clusters

Book 4: Vowels Part I

Book 5: Vowels Part II

NEWS AND FUN FACTS FOR KIDS

     

      He may have faced some of the planet's deadliest animals but even the bravest of presenters would be scared to face Leah's quiz.

      Does a goldfish really have a two-second memory?

      What do you get if you cross a labrador with a poodle?

      Find out the answers and discover what happened when CBBC's Steve Backshall was put on the spot with some quickfire animal questions.

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WHAT IS A WORDLE?

     

      Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

                              To see what's possible, here

TONGUE TWISTERS

     

       Here is an alphabetical selection for classroom fun. They also practice pronunciation as students try to get their tongues around the sounds. For best results of the single – liners, say each one 5 times in quick succession. Some of the seemingly simplest are the most difficult to repeat – try Greek grapes or Irish wristwatch!

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CREATING WORD GAMES USING THE TEACHER'S PET

      Ask your class what they’d like to read about next lesson, and they’re highly unlikely to mention content from their coursebook. Yesterday’s catastrophe, today’s celebrity gossip or tomorrow’s technology stand a far better chance of appearing on the classroom wish list.

      Thankfully, if you have a connection to the internet and Microsoft Word or Open Office Writer (available for free from www.openoffice.org), then you can create exciting classroom materials based on any topical issue of your choice in a matter of minutes.

      The Teacher’s Pet is a toolbar for your word processor created to eradicate coursebook fatigue by providing teachers with easy-to-use tools which can transform texts into stimulating activities. It can be downloaded for free from Teacher´s Pet.

      For those who are not familiar with the toolbar, I’d like to show you briefly how quick and easy it is.

      Once you’ve downloaded the toolbar and found a text, the next step is to copy and paste it into a new document. To ensure that unwanted formatting from the website, such as tables or links, is not included, you can paste by clicking Edit > Paste special > Unformatted text.

Now the fun begins!

      There are twenty-four macros to play with, many of which perform simple changes to the text, such as removing letters, spaces or punctuation and jumbling letters or words. Others can create more complex content, such as pair-matching exercises, crosswords, word search puzzles, bingo cards and flashcards. They are all free except the last four, which can each be used three times on a trial basis.

      The best way to learn about each macro is to dive in and give it a go. If you are unsure about how to use a macro, just click on it and you will either be asked to confirm whether the text is formatted properly or given a pop-up message explaining what you need to do. For instance, you may be prompted to make minor changes, such as adding plus signs (+) to mark important locations in the text.

      To illustrate just how simple it is, the following crossword was created using the Teacher’s Pet with vocabulary from this article in under five minutes.

How much do you remember?

                 Follow this link to complete the crossword with words from this article.

abcTEACH

     

      A user-friendly educational site that provides quality printable materials for immediate use by teachers, education majors, and parents.

      Yo can find a lot of resources, so click here

SIMILES AND FEELINGS

Lesson in brief: Students will explore anger using similes.        

      Introduction: Explain that this activity will foster creative thinking by asking students to make connections between things they don’t usually think of as connected. Review or explain the meaning of simile: a figure of speech in which two unlike things are compared.

1. Ask the students to name the following:
three machines or appliances (e.g., television, car, computer)
two things found in nature (e.g., birds, rock)
one activity people like to do that ends in ing (e.g., swimming)
2. Record their responses on chart paper.
3. Beginning with the first machine, ask “Anger is like a _____________ because ______________.”
4. After receiving several responses from students for the first machine, go on to the second, and so on.

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RESPIRATORY AND CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS

 CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

      You can see an interesting video, here

RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

And what happens when you breathe?

 See this one, here

THE FIRST STEP TO A BRIGHTER, HEALTHIER BRAIN

Your Personalized Plan   

      Tell us a little more about your goals and we'll build you a customized brain fitness plan with targeted exercises designed to help you reach your cognitive potential.

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INTERACTIVE eBOOKS

     

    Imagine you’re a young teenager. You’ve got home from school. Something to eat might be a good idea. You need time to settle and reflect on what’s happened over the last hours. Maybe you chill out watching TV or catch up on your social networking. You may even talk with your family. Do you have anything to do later – another lesson, a meeting with friends? Oh. What about the homework? It’s often the last thing you want to do, following that well known maxim: never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after tomorrow.

      Now you’re a parent. You like your kids to do homework; it consolidates what they’ve done in class (and keeps them quiet). You’ve bought all these companions, grammar books and workbooks – so they have to be used. Maybe it gives you a chance to share with them, as you speak English and can help them. You can get an idea of their progress through their homework marks.

      As a teacher, you may be under pressure from your school to set regular homework tasks and even have a scheme of work to follow that explicitly states which pages or tasks to set. You may have to collect in work and spend a considerable amount of time marking. Alternatively you might start lessons by going through the homework, perhaps with students marking each others work. This can take up valuable time.

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SOME WORDS BEING STUDIED

Shedule or skedule?   

      How should we pronounce “schedule”? How do you pronounce it – with a hard “k” or a soft “sh” sound? Well, in a study by the British Library, interim results suggest a third of Britons taking part now adopt the American-style “skedule” over the traditional British “sh” pronunciation. Other US pronunciations taking root, according to researchers, are “pay-triotic”, in place of “pat-riotic”, and “advertISEment”, instead of “adVERTisement”.

      The research, which is ongoing, is part of a series of projects connected to the British Library’s Evolving English exhibition. It involves volunteers using the library’s website to submit a recording of themselves saying six prescribed words and stating where they are from.

      Britons are also creating a new way of saying controversy which hasn’t traditionally been used in Britain or the US. Three quarters of Britons taking part say “conTROversy”, with the emphasis on the middle syllable, rather than the previously conventional “CONtroversy”.

Other words being studied are:

- “garage”, which Britons are more likely to pronounce as “garridge”, over the more French sounding “garaarge”, which is universal in the US.

- “attitude”, where there is no sign of the British adopting the US “attitood” over “atti-chewed”.

– “neither” – despite the impression given in the George Gershwin song “Let’s call the whole thing off”, there is no clear divide between Britons and Americans, with “nee-ther” and “ny-ther” used on both sides of the Atlantic.

– “scone” – which Americans all rhyme with “bone”, but which many British rhyme with “gone”.