alice’s posterous

Recently, I found this cool resource on TES thanks to ceanna.

It is a PowerPoint with slides showing a comic strip about a conversation between two people ordering in a restaurant.

The comic strip was created using Toondoo, a free web 2.0 tool which allows you to create comic strips, to publish and share them. It is fairly simple to use and it is a welcome change from the usual PowerPoint. You could also use it in the computer room where students create their own role-plays or describe their routine in the day.

What do you think? Have you used Toondoo already?

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I have come across this nice plenary on TES thanks to germanfan.

You have numbers and sentences in English. A student chooses a number and then has to finish the sentence which is in the same colour as the chosen number. I think it is a great idea because I often struggle at the end of the lesson to have an interesting plenary. I often end up asking the same dull questions such as: what have you learnt today? what was the objective of the lesson? what did you prefer and why? and of course, students just want to pack up and go to their next lesson or break!
This way is a bit more fun and it can also make students practice numbers in the target language ;)

What do you do at the end of your lessons?

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I thought I would share this worksheet I found on the TES website http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=3011695. I cannot thank "dbskapick" enough for creating this resource.

I have a group of year 10 students (14-15 years old) who are a bit lethargic in class... Well I guess they have the typical teenagers type attitude (not bothered, can't do French etc... type!). I had to deliver a lesson on clothes to them and of course revise adjectival agreements matching colours and clothes. The type of really dull and boring lesson and of course I had no inspiration. So I went on to TES which I cannot advertise enough, even if you are not teaching in the UK, it is full of resources for every subject shared by very kind and dedicated teachers. You have to register to view the resources but it is all free and you share your resources as well.
Actually I feel bad about not having shared a single PowerPoint or worksheet but I guess I already share all my PowerPoints on slideshare, so that makes up for it, doesn't it?

I found this great worksheet about Kate Moss and fashion. Students have to fold over backwards the correct version at the top of sheet and not look at it after reading it once. Then go through the other copies finding as many mistakes as they can. The number in brackets indicates the mistakes needed to be found.

To my amazement, students loved this activity! they loved folding the paper (yes, I know!), they loved spotting and counting the mistakes. They were all engaged even the boys for whom the topic was not that appealing.

Then I asked my students to write their own paragraph about their favourite artists and what they wear. They had to write a version without mistakes and one with mistakes and then give it to their partners. We did not have quite the time to finish this activity. But when writing their paragraphs they were much more focused on agreements and adjectives, so our lesson's objective was achieved (yeah!).

And you? have you done a grammar activity that has worked with your students?

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