Please work with your partner and complete your three tasks. If you have received an invitation to this blog and replied to it, then you will be able to post a short report with your results to this blog. Otherwise, we'll do an oral report. Good luck.
Steve
1A Situation: Your students are interested in the news, but they find the newspapers too difficult to read. There's just too much vocabulary that they don't know.
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/index.shtml
Question: What are the advantages of students doing this online rather than printing it off for them to do in class? And why is it better than an ordinary newspaper? (And are there any Teachers' notes? HINT: look in the archives)
1B Situation: Your students ask you which is right: a)"different to", b)"different than", or c)"different from". You are about to give an answer, when you suddenly start to doubt yourself. You decide to check what most people say.
Link: http://vlc.polyu.edu.hk/
Question: How many instances can you find of these three phrases? To do this, enter 'different' into the web concordancer and then press 'Go'. (You could also try http://www.googlefight.com/ for a more visual comparison).
1C Situation To develop as a teacher, this blog, which originally started from the Celta course technology sessions at IH in Barcelona, should prove useful.
Link: http://www.ihes.com/bcn/tt/eltblog/blog/
Question: Can you find one post you can recommend for us?
Kyle and Addya
2A Situation: You want students to talk about their countries in a multicultural class. If each had an outline of their country, they could use it to illustrate their talk.
Link: http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/
Question: Can you find an outline map of your student’s country?
2B Situation: Your students really want to practice listening and speaking and communicating with other people.
Link: http://www.voxopop.com/
Question: Can you explain to them how this site could help?
You may like to look at this discussion
2C Situation You may want to attend conferences to develop as a teacher. One has just finished in Cardiff but you can look at many sessions online. It’s worth registering and you may want to find out about IATEFL and join later. IATEFL stands for the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language and it exists to link, develop and support English Language Teaching professionals throughout the world.
Link: http://iatefl.britishcouncil.org/2009/
Question: Can you find something to recommend?
Rod and Simon
3A Situation: You're looking for some short but interesting reading texts to use off-line with your learners.
Link: http://www.ananova.com/news/lp.html?keywords=Quirkies&menu=news.quirkies
Question: Can you find an amusing story (under Quirkies) that you think would interest them? What language focus do you think could arise from this text?
3B Situation: You want to revise vocabulary in a fun way. Perhaps by making a word search puzzle. Even better, the students could make puzzles for each other later.
Link: http://puzzlemaker.discoveryeducation.com/
Question: Can you make a Criss-Cross puzzle with names of six different vegetables.
3C Situation: To help your development as a teacher, the British council have a wonderful teachers’ site
Link: http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/
Question: In addition, there are lots of activities for your classes. Click on Try, Can you find an activity you could possibly use with our TP students?
In addition, The British Council have a wonderful resource for learners too.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish.htm
Philip and Martin
4A Situation: Visual aids are invaluable for eliciting and clarifying vocabulary. You are teaching prepositions to a beginner's group in the morning and food to an advanced group in the afternoon.
Link: http://hcmc.uvic.ca/clipart/ (Look under’Topic Gallery’ and http://images.google.co.uk/
Question: Can you find something to illustrate the preposition "next", and something for "toad in the hole".
4B Situation: You want to find a fun way to help your students to improve their pronunciation.
Link: http://cambridgeenglishonline.com/Phonetics_Focus/
Question: Can you find an appropriate activity for your students.
4C Situation:You may want to subscribe to various professional magazines (or ask your institution to do so). But there is a lot of material available online for free. Have a look at the excellent journal English Teaching Professional. This link is to a column which gives tips on useful websites.
Link: http://www.etprofessional.com/content/view/1130/50/
Question: Could you use the recommended site? Or could you check out any other of Russell Stanard’s Webwatcher columns (click on his name for more) and recommend one?
Marcia and Varun
5A Situation: You’re interested in using video clips with your students and want some ideas.
Link: Go to www.teflclips.com.
Question: How could this site help you?
5B Situation: There are many teachers who are very generous and share so much. For example, Nik Peachey writes several blogs that are very useful.
Link: http://daily-english-activities.blogspot.com/
Question: Can you find a helpful post that you could recommend.
5C Situation: Publishers offer some very good resources. A good example is Macmillan. There are dictation activities with Teachers’ Notes and a good online dictionary.
Link: http://www.macmillandictionaries.com/home.htm
Question: Could you find a suitable dictation for our TP students?
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