Teaching Blogs ...

Celia's Corner

Teaching Sources Blog

In this blog I found tips and original ideas of how to teach kids in a dynamic and funny way. I like the proposal of the video lesson that Celia presented in where you can teach about junk food and healthy food with funny video and good activities. This blog shown the personal view of the owner in each entry and the language is easy to understand.

http://www.teachingsources.blogspot.com/

Sole's Corner

This blog is useful, pleasant and different … you can get ideas and tips for teaching. I like the proposal of the video lesson because, I want to teach kids and the video and the activities are proper for them. In this blog, you can find the point of view of the owner in each entry.

http://www.soleida.blogspot.com/

Learning through Musik

In this blog you will find the point of view of the owner in each entry. It is easy to understand the language in there and I agreed with him when he said that is important to develop listening and speaking skills. Also, it is true that sometimes, when you listen music you do not understand the whole thing … sometimes you need to listen again. In my case if I like the artist and the rhythm is easier for me get the whole meaning of the song but, sometimes is very hard to understand some kind of songs.

http://www.learningthroughmusik.blogspot.com/

What the parents look for?

The learning process not just involves the students and teachers. Also, this process involves the parents of the learners; they need to feel that their kids are receiving a good education. For that reason, the education is an integral process that should fulfill the necessities of the learners, teachers and parents. So, I want that you visited this blog in where you will find information of how you can get the best education possible for your child.

http://besteducationpossible.blogspot.com/

History Blog ...

Since I was in school a like Social Studies and I want to be a teacher of this matter. But, as a future teacher I know that the students find unisteresting the history and all of those things. However, in this job you can learn everyday. So, I looked for in internet and I found a blog with differents articles, suggestions and information about history and history education (how to teach it?) This is the link, if you want to visit http://historyiselementary.blogspot.com/ Furthermore, you will find a lot education blogs and information about the owner of the blog.

Teaching with Twitter ... Interesting Blog

I found an interesting blog about how you can teaching with twitter. This blog has many uses and ideas about teaching with twitter; one of the most popular social networking. From my point of view, it is great to find different ways to make the learning process more interesting for the students. So this is the link if you want to visited the site: http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2009/01/teaching-with-twitter.html Also, you can find information of the owner of the blog, links with useful information and videos.

I'm a follower

I visited a blog of music: http://musicaranking.blogspot.com/ Blog Music Ranking

I like it because, I find a lot of music that I like . Also, I found news about different artists and events written in a clear and simple way. Furthermore, it contains lyrics, videos, chat and top music.

On my free time ...

On my free time, I like to spend my time with my family and friends in Limón ... going to beach, going to party, going to shop, etc. Also, I like to listen music, eat fast food and watch TV.

Part of my Video Lesson

This is an activity that the teacher can use for teaching vocabulary about fairly tales. She/he plays the video and the students fill the blanks according to the video. In this case is the story about "Sleeping Beauty"

Fill the blanks

dawn fair homage joyful kingdom land longed princess wish

In a far away ____ , long ago, lived a king and his ____ queen. Many years had they ____ for a child and finally their ____ was granted. A daughter was born, and they called her Aurora. Yes, they named her after the ____ for she filled their lives with sunshine. Then a great holiday was proclaimed throughout the ____ , so that all of high or low estate might pay ____ to the infant ____ . And our story begins on that most ____ day.

Principles of Teaching Vocabulary

When you are teaching vocabulary you need to take into account the six principles about "Teaching Vocabulary":

Principles

1. Choose useful words:

The teacher should chose useful words that the students can use in their daily conversations. To get that there are two different lists of useful words: The General Service List (2000 words) and the Academia Word List (which contains the most frequent academic vocabulary).

2. Let the learners do the work:
It is important that the teacher provides definitions and meanings of difficult words but the teacher needs to allow that students learn the vocabulary through different activities.

3. Focus on different aspects of a word:
There is much more to a word than just its meaning. For example, amongst other things, students can learn a word’s stress (accent), its collocations and word family members, its grammatical patterns and word parts etc.

4. Provide meaningful learning opportunities:
Provide the learners the opportunity to use the new vocabulary in a conversation, dialogue. Also, allow that the students hear or to see target words in a meaningful context, and opportunities to use target words in meaningful writing and speaking tasks.

5. Implement a regular testing Schedule:
Testing can be used to give students feedback on their success and/or failure to learn and use the target words and motivate them to study vocabulary.

6. Be patient with their learners:
Sometimes, the students forget the vocabulary. So, the teacher needs to be patient and try to provide the students opportunities to review the new vocabulary.

Links

There are some links with information about how you can teach different things as:

Pronunciation links:
http://www.onestopenglish.com/section_flash.asp?catid=60030&docid=156649
http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/
http://www.cambridgeenglishonline.com/Phonetics_Focus/:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/
http://www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/grade_k_1/long_vowel_grk1_nav.htm
http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/pronunciation-phonetics/13267-pronunciation-rules.html
http://www.eslflow.com/pronunciationlessonplans.html
www.antimoon.com/how/pronunc-soundsipa.htm

Vocabulary Links:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/index.html

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/
http://www.eslflow.com/vocabularylessonplans.html
http://www.teachenglishinasia.net/efl-esl-games/efl-esl-vocabulary-games
http://www.lumosity.com/brain-games/flexibility-games/word-bubbles
http://www.myplaycity.com/free_puzzle_games/?utm_source=GAdwCat005all&utm_medium=googleadw003

Listening links:
http://www.elllo.org/english/0701/720-Rebecca-Cities.html
http://www.esl-lab.com/airport/airportrd1.htm

Grammar links:
http://www.smic.be/smic5022/exercisesgrammar.htm
http://www.eslpartyland.com/teachers/nov/grammar.htm
http://www.ego4u.com/en/cram-up/grammar
http://www.nclrc.org/essentials/grammar/stratgram.htm
http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/adjectives_adverbs/adjective_adverb.htm
http://www.tolearnenglish.com/
http://www.english-4u.de/
http://www2.gsu.edu/~eslhpb/grammar/lecture_11/relative.html
http://www.taconichills.k12.ny.us/webquests/grammar/index.html

http://www.englishpage.com/prepositions/phrasaldictionary.html:
http://www.englishlearner.com/tests/if_conditional_test_1-all_44_
questions_timed.shtml

Printables links:
http://printables.familyeducation.com/
http://www.teas2dine4.com/4xmasprint.html
http://www.eslpartyland.com/teachers/nov/music.htm

Part of my Webquest

Introduction
Two Frogs is the story of a group of frogs that live in huge wood full of colors and different animals and plants. One day, they decide to go the limits of the wood in where there is a deep pit. But, after the deep pit there is a beautiful frog paradise. There were two brave frogs that wanted to cross and there were a group of frogs that did not want to pass. Suddenly, the two frogs fell in the pit, and they were very scared and they want to return home. Meanwhile, other frogs screamed them that they will die. But, one of them was very negative and heard the negative comments of the others and then dies. But, fortunately one of them kept try and even the others gave it a negative message he was able to
get out big pit successfully. This story is so full of imagination, this Web Quest including many activities that go along with the Two Frogs story. These activities will include the story's characters, events, vocabulary, and a moral.

Introduction

My name is Stephanie ... I'm studying English Teaching and Translation because, I want to be a teacher. This is my first time in the blog. This blog is part of a course that I'm taking in ULACIT, Costa Rica.

I want to share information about teaching and I hope to receive valuable information for you.