Mención de Lengua Extranjera 2012-2013 (UMA) (Mañana)

I have found this website very useful and interesting. It give us some examples of how to introduce idioms and saying to children in our lessons. Have you ever heard "the curiosity killed the cat?" Well, in this case curiosity can help you to learn, so don´t be a "couch potato" and "get cracking!" Look for some good idioms to teach. I personally think that learning English through idioms it is a funny way to get familiar with real English.

Here you can find very interesting information about tool of assessment, tool methods, classroom management, etc. It also contains fun activities and interesting strategies and tips for teaching. Take a look! I recommend it!

Hi! Just found plenty of great activities that can help students to learn english in a fun way. What I like from this page is that it offers a variety of activities so we can teach studetns all kinds of stuff such as grammar, vocabulary, storytelling, games, websites and also blogs that studetns made theselves. So I hope you enjoy it :)

Hello everyone! As you remember from the last lesson, storytelling is a great resource for teahcer. So, I would like to share with you this list of stories recorded in audio. http://www.storyteller.net/stories/audio They are so useful to practice listening or also to use them in a primary class. Enjoy them

Hi! I really like this page and I find it quite interesting because It´s a wonderful resource for teaching English. There are lots of stories which you can use to motivate students and these stories have been specially written for children learning English. Teachers often do this because live storytelling is a spontaneous creative process which fires the imagination and the listener experiences and participates in the story creatively. So, it is very important giving feedback: the teacher being observed can be very sensitive and defensive about their class, especially if they feel it didn't go as planned so any criticisms or suggestions for improvement must be delivered in a very constructive way. On the other hand, tell a story is a very personal way and you can adapt the story any way you want to fit the English ability or maturity level of your class. Furthermore, we should taking into account the following points while telling stories to our students: create a storytelling atmosphere, interact with the students, create a visual, ask for student volunteers, help your students help themselves, interact with the students while telling the story, use clear language, simple but natural language, use linguistic and extralinguistic redundancy (paraphrase, repetitions, examples, definitions, gestures, sounds, illustration, etc.), express emotions, tell the story with feeling, use different voices (narrator, characters…) use support materials, etc. Finally, I have found other page that I would like to share it. www.storyteller.net/315 Thank you for sharing it! :)

I totally agree with you. Storytelling it is a great resource for teaching, it is a motivating and original way to face a lesson and promote students' learning. In my opinion the more interested they are, the more they will participate and learn.Thanks for your posts! Here you have a website that I really like and I think it is very useful for planing a storytelling lesson. http://www.speakaboos.com/

Hi! Here you have a fantastic website that can help children to develop different skills and thus to improve their L2. I think that it is a funny way for children can learn english.

I am agree with you, this web offers a lot of funny activities to develope the main skills that children have to develope.

Yes! I totally agree with you! It is one of my favourite website, I use it very often in order to take ideas from it.

Hi all! I would like to share with everybody this page because I think it's very interesting. Here you can find a variety of resources; printing pages for children about Halloween or Thanksgiving, different kinds of recipes to make with kids, crafts to make with learners, games, etc. Go and have a look at it. See you!

Hi María! I agree with you! It is really interesting! I also like a website that I use very often: http://pinterest.com/noryne/craft-websites/ It takes you to many different craft websites. So you can pick many ideas and take it to your class in order to do something different :)

Hello again! :) I found this dictionary online that I think it's very useful for children because they can visualize, with pictures, the word that they find. Also, this dictionary provides example sentences so kids can see the word in context. Furthermore, children can listen the pronunciation of the word, its definition and the example sentences. I hope you like it!

Hello Laura, I like your link because chilren love visual resources, I would like to share with you an amazing photographic dictionary, I hope you like. http://photographicdictionary.com/

Hi Laura! I have found it very useful. Related to it, I have found another dictionary called little explorers, It is a picture dictionary with links. It also has many curious things. I strongly recommend it! I hope you like it! http://familyinternet.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=familyinternet&cdn=parenting&tm=18&f=00&tt=3&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html

Hello everyone! I would like to share an article that I found in a journal of research and innovation in the Language Classroom called "Encuentro". This is an article where you can find a lot of information about correct mistakes in L2 learners. I hope you find it useful!

Hello guys!, today we have been talking about "PEPP APPROACH". I would like to share with you this link because it can be very helpful to learn more about it. I think that it is very useful because explain the different stages and give some examples about it. I hope you like!

Hello, last Friday we were working about how to give instructions to our children to perform a task. Well, I have just found a very useful web where we can find some tips for giving instrunctions. I hope you like and put into practice as future teachers, I will do too.

Related to this, I would like to share with you another website. http://www.parenting.org/article/giving-good-instructions-children Although is suggested for parents to their children, after have been reading it, I've noticed we can take into consideration some interesting advices they mention. Thank you!

Thanks you for you comments girl! I feel very happy that you like it!. I'm agree with you Yolanda, I think that is very importante to five effective and clear instructions to our children because they need to understand us. Gloria I'm agree with you too because I think that we can mix up both. Thanks you for the link!

Hi again! :) You can use this great website in order to search for teaching materials to use with your student! I hope you like!

I have just seen your link, there are a lot of materials which can help us to prepare activities, thanks you!

This web has been created by a teacher from the Kindergarten Boissière in Paris to share a lot of helpful resources in English with parents, children and other teachers. For example, in this activity (http://webkindergarten.net/visual_arts_and_crafts/techniques/recycled_paper.htm) we can see interdisciplinary use of English in a bilingual Knowledge of the environment's class. I like this activity because explains the process to make recycled paper step by step in a very clear and simple way.

Hi all! This website has 33 oral activities which can be worked in the classroom. The activities are divided according to the contents worked. Each activity explains how to carry it out and includes some variations. Some activities are more interesting and complete than others, but all develop oral fluency. I like the activity number 23 "Find the differences". I Hope you like.

Hi! I have found this interesting page that contains many resources for teachers such as flashcards, worksheets that you can download free and they are very useful to make our lessons more effective.

Hello everyone! I think it is useful to share this website. It is called "Linguee". Linguee is more than a dictionary. The Linguee search results are divided into two sections: on the left hand side we can see the translation of the words and on the right hand side; we can find example sentences from other sources to provide us with an impression of how our search expression has been translated IN CONTEXT.

Hello everyone just found an interesting blog, it has plenty of activities that helps students to learn english in a fun way. Most of the activities are from different topics, I like them beacause they are not boring and I think It is a great blog where we can find any type of activities My favourite activities are the crosswords, and the rest of activities are great because they have plenty of images. Activities that has images in my opinion helps students to retain information in a large period of time. So here you are! Hope you like it!.

Hello everyone! I want to share with you this page which contains amount of resources and activities that can be adapted according to our interests or give us new ideas and can be very useful. I hope you like, grettings.

Hi, this afternoon I would like to share a very useful link about Bloom's taxonomy. It's a book called "The Ultimate Teaching Manual", in this one you can find a lot of information about how to teach and how to put in practice son theories. The book is very interesting but if you want to go straight to the Bloom's Taxonomy you have to start to read in the page 63. You can find a table with a lot of samples questions stems, useful verbs and potential activities and products for each domain of the Bloom's Taxonomy. Besides you can read about Multiple Intelligences since page 126. In this one you can see some learning activities to work all of these intelligences. I hope you like it!

Hi again! :) Today, I would like to share information about SMART Notebook; a software which helps teachers bring more collaboration and interactivity into the classroom. With multiple ways to interact with content and the ability to learn collaboratively, it can provide a visual context to lessons and make the material easier for English language learners to understand. Here, a tutorial about how it can be used: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGO1sJxnUAo&feature=related I hope you like!

Nowadays is a very important resource which can help us in the process of teaching, so I am waiting for the fith of November to do the course of digital blackboard.