Monday, November 20, 2017

Useful pages

Here I am going to show you some pages that will be usefull for you at the moment of planning your classes and creating activities for your students.


  1. British Concil And British Council Kids:
This is a page where you could find a lot of teaching aids, it will help you to plan your lessons.
Here your will see:

  • Activities (according to levels)
  • Songs
  • Videos with stories
  • Articles for teachers
  • Other teaching tools like posters, flascarsd, etc.




https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/es 

2. English with Mr. Alonso
This is a page focused in young learners (kids) here you will find:

  • Activities 
  • songs
  • worksheets
  • stories
  • games
  • videos
  • books
All these according to the level or grade of your students.



3. Busy Teacher

In this page you will find a lot of aids for english teachers like

  • Printable worksheets (Acoording to topics, grammar, speaking, reading, listening, writing and pronunciation)
  • ESL Articles
  • Store of book (Busy teacher's books)
  • FlashCards 
  • Warmer, fillers, ice breakers and more.



4. kahoot

It it a platform were you can make interactive trivias with your students, what you will need is a cellphone, computer or tablet, you can desing a trivia or a quiz based on your necessities or select one from kahoot, it will give you a PIN and your students from their cellphones or tablets and play with you.






Warm Up Activities

Here you could find some warm ups to play with kids.

Songs will always be a good option to start the class:

Boom Chicka boom

Teacher can assign different styles and movements to practice the main topic of the class. For example: “Lion style” (To practice vocabulary) kids will sing the chorus as a lion does.

This could be an effective way to implement TPR in your classes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2XVfTzel8E&t=158s 
Move and Freeze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=388Q44ReOWE&t=11s
Go Bananas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfhzSNW0NmE
Hokey Pokey 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZinb6rVozc
Baby Shark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w