Just stumbled upon the TEFLtastic blog and it’s full of amazing materials. I’ve added it to my blogroll and I’m going to be using a lot of their great FCE speaking materials this year. Check it out.
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Tips for Continuous Professional Development in ELT
Check out this great article from Jenny Johnson at the British Council about ways different ways to maintain CPD.
Macmillan’s free online resources are amazing!!
Thanks to my colleague Raquel Gomez for introducing me to Macmillan’s amazing database of resources:
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/learn/english-language-resources.html
She focused specifically on the pragmatics section in a seminar she recently gave in my school. She ran an experiment last year using the materials to boost scores for FCE and CAE speaking exams so I’m going to try them out for myself today, starting with this one on agreeing and disagreeing:
Boardwork tips from ELTPlanning
Here’s a fantastic post from ELTplanning on ways to improve your boardwork. Check it out:
New Tools and Websites
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Here are links to a few new tools and websites I’ve discovered or been introduced to over the past few days.
Kahoot:
Kahoot is a great site where teacher’s can design quizzes and surveys that students can play on their mobile devices in class. It makes for fast, frantic and fun classes with competitive, engaged students. I’m definitely going to be putting this one to the test this term.
Readlang
A great site offering texts in a number of different languages with instant translations, simply click on the word you don’t understand and the translation appears above it. The site then generates a flashcard set based on the words you’ve clicked on.
Great Link for Debate Tasks
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I’ve just come across this link from the university of Kent that features some great conversation activities including a balloon debate.
http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/interviews/balloonDebate.htm#air
Here’s the sinking ship one in a word document to download:
Great Game Templates from Adam Simpson
Check out these fantastic posts from Adam Simpson featuring powerpoint templates you can use to play “Blockbusters” and “Who wants to be a millionaire?”
Upgrading Vocabulary
Found this on facebook, there’s a few iffy ones but generally a great resource.
Dub or subtitle a Bollywood film!
Use this great website to add your own subtitles and dubbed dialogue to Bollywood films, great for practicing direct speech.
CAE Part 2 example tasks
Here’s a link to some examples of part 2 from the Deesite blog:
https://deesite.wordpress.com/2014/11/22/picures-for-speaking-part-2-cae-book-4/