TIMETOAST: History of Men in Black

Crazy Poems

Do you fancy  creating poems? Here there is a help for you to invent one!! Let's see who is the best poet writer!!

Discussion » Olá! Como te chamas?

Navigating the net....I like this resource.



I think it is ideal for  adults who need to improve their language to communicate with other native or non-native speakers of the target language. Probably, it can also be useful to find new friends on-line, if this is the case, feelings and emotions might become important to accomplish the aim: learning a language as a whole.



Discussion » Olá! Como te chamas?



What are your thoughts?





Eva

Talkgroup » Using drama techniques to teach a FL

Drama techniques are ideal for integrating language skills in a natural way, verbal and non-verbal aspects of communication, drawing upon both cognitive and affective domains, thus restoring the importance of feeling as well as thinking and using the foreign language to communicate and express oneself.



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Talkgroup » Using drama techniques to teach a FL



As I always say: your comments are always welcomed here.



Eva

Flying over

This activity is good to practice writing, speaking, and listening skills. Then it is also good to: teach verbs and talking about oneself, talking about past events, talking about the future, describing things or actions, describing places and people, talking about similarities and differences, stating preferences, making suggestions and giving advice, complaining, tellin stories, dealing with moods and feelings! Good-bye for now! Please, write your comments on other ideas to teach, they are all welcomed here! Eva

Playing with words

We live in a web of words. Words are everywhere, here, there, even when we close our eyes at night we dream with them, in them, about them. Why? Because without them we cannot communicate fully ever our basic emotions, feelings, needs, let alone the finer distinctions in our dreams and thinkings. So I've designed this poster with Wordle to encourage a group of students to feel the words first and then improvise a dialogue between two heroes of this famous trilogy


Hope you like it! Eva

Men in Black III or Teachers with a Blank Mind?

TRABAJO INTEGRADOR MODULO 6

Estoy ocupada esta semana.

Debo presentar una actividad didáctica integrando recursos multimediales, la Web 2.0 y la enseñanza de inglés. 

Esto me ha dejado muchas noches sin dormir.

Finalmente decidí nombrarlo:

Write with Men in Black

Objetivos específicos didácticos: Explotar la imaginación de los estudiantes para desarrollar escritura creativa mediada por los recursos multimediales y la Web 2.0 en la clase de inglés.

Objetivos

Didácticos

Explotar la imaginación de los estudiantes para desarrollar escritura creativa mediada por los recursos multimediales y la Web 2.0 en la clase de inglés.

Lingüísticos

usar la escritura en inglés como medio de comunicación práctica entre pares intermediada por recursos multimediales y  de la Web 2.0.

producir textos orales bilingües relacionadas con el trabajo escrito para comunicarse con docentes y pares por medio de los recurso multimediales y de la Web 2.0

comprender  textos escritos y orales adecuados al nivel de producción de escritura y habla.

Culturales

compartir valores, creencias, estándares de belleza, patrones de pensamiento, normas de comportamiento, estilos de comunicación con los miembros del grupo a través de la  trilogía Men in Black.

Tecnológicos

usar los recursos multimediales y de la Web 2.0 para mejorar la práctica de la escritura en inglés y oralidad bilingüe.  

Esta imagen es especialmente interesante para trabajar el subtexto cultural que la subyace.

Is a Second Life possible for a teacher of English?

ELLA IN WONDERLAND SL EXPERIENCE

The wonderland of SL for teachers of English: Some comments on it. (Spanish language)

Today  I have explored a new teaching experience: Second Life World, and as a learner!

I definitely loved it, even got addicted to it, I guess.

Thus, is there A second life for us, teachers of English?

Then, can I replace my classroom by a second classroom, a virtual one? 

I personally tend to think this new SL "game" has many blurry limits, and these are some of many questions flooding my mind:

How can we teachers re-define our classrooms? 

 

How can we teachers re-adapt ourselves to this new environment? 

 

How can we teachers adopt SL as a learning - teaching space?
 

Should we, teachers, just obvserve our teaching world to see what happens?
 

Should we, teachers,  get involved in these new ephemeral circumstances?
 

Have they arrived in our classes to stay for long?

 

Are they ephemeral?

If you wish, your thoughts, hopes and fears are all welcomed to debate them!