A blog to help secondary school students improve English. You can find mind maps, worksheets, videos and songs as well as some of the project works and activities done by the students.
Hello! My name's Liliana. I'm a teacher of English (Language and Literature) to Italian teenage stu
Saturday, January 30, 2021
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How to make questions and learn English with Selena Gomez
OBJECT QUESTIONS
While watching the video write down twenty questions and Selena's answers
Tense Revision with Ariana Grande
Make four columns and write down in each column the verbs used in the Present Simple, Present Continuous, Past Simple and Past Continuous
How to make a conversation to buy clothes
You want to buy a blue hoodie. After having seen the slides and the video here attached, build up a conversation between you and the shop assistant
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Successful distance learning tasks
Interviews and guess what!
During this time characterized by distance learning (the so-called DAD) I've been trying to find activities which may work well with my students. The point is that you as a teacher must mix up lots of elements so as to try to have a lesson being as perfect as possible.
Don't stress your students out! No long explanations. Of course you must be short!
Don't get them bored! Forget all those tasks that may be useful from the didactic point of view...but really they just create boredom! Checking the exercises out may be a big problem!
Anyway you must move on with the contents and the grammar points and the vocabulary and the speaking and the listening and the writing....Definitely a lot of stuff!!!!
Of course, something always working is connected to a kind of interaction! Asking them to interview each other during the lesson or before a lesson and then listen to them again is very good and interesting! They pay attention trying to understand and decipher every single word said by their mates, especially if they're into the topic.
A successful task and quite a relaxing one, as the students themselves have told me, has been the one consisting in summarizing shortly a movie or a TV series and then reading the text aloud so that the classmates may guess the title.
It was fun and they seemed to appreciate it a lot !!!