Teacher development workshop (Comenius)

The following are useful websites that we have explored/are going to explore during the workshop:

http://urbanext.illinois.edu/ce/strat-index.html#prim

- Multiple Intelligences activities

http://www.scribd.com/

- sharing materials

http://www.teachers.tv/

- very likely not available outside the UK

http://www.eslvideo.com/

- songs with quizzes

http://www.cambridgeenglishonline.com/Phonetics_Focus/

- website practising pronunciation

http://www.shiporsheep.com/

- website practising minimal pairs (pronunciation)

http://www.englishcentral.com/en/videos

- website practising pronunciation

http://www.teachertrainingvideos.com/

- training videos

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/

- an EFL blog

http://193.133.140.102/JustTheWord/

- concordance

http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/

- software to download and convert Youtube videos

http://www.english-4u.com/

- ready lesson plans on various subjects

-subscription required (about £25/year)

Christmas Carol - Words Origin

Learn about some English words and their origins:

http://literature.pppst.com/DEF/dickens-christmascarol.html

IELTS websites

Learn useful language for describing graphs in Task 1 Writing here:

http://adw.hct.ac.ae/site_ilc/sites_ielts/graphsite/index.htm

Practise IELTs vocabulary here:

http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/eap/2004/U4/beliefs_opinions_attitudes.htm

Jack the Ripper

Che guevara

Christmas Carol - Stave 1

Online text of Christmas Carol

http://www.enotes.com/christmas-carol-text/stave-one-marleys-ghost

Stave 1 Summary

http://www.ego4u.com/en/read-on/literature/christmas-carol/chapter-1?default#exercises

Tutorials 10 November 2009

Hi everybody

Following are a number of activities I would like you to during our Tutorials today:

1. Open your blog and respond to my comments.

2. Publish a new post: Title: English Classes. Write about our English classes (what you like/don't like; what you would like to do more/less).

3. Do Reading & Vocabulary on p.70 from your Students Book.

4. Have a look at list of Useful websites on my Blog.

5. Start reading Christmas Carol online http://www.enotes.com/christmas-carol-text/stave-one-marleys-ghost