A lesson plan with XTRANORMAL

The amount of phrasal verbs in one of the books I've been using with some students is significant and I end up having to think of ways to help my students use them meaningfully.

This week, the coursebook brought a list of sentences which could be substituted by phrasal verbs.

MY LESSON PLAN:

1. I used QUIZLET FLASHCARDS to present the phrasal verbs. (same sentences from the exercise in coursebook). The first time I showed both sides (sentence + phrasal verb)
2. To help sts memorise the phrasal verbs I showed them the sentences only to see if they could remember the phrasal verbs.
3. I then asked sts to do the exercise in the coursebook.
4. I showed an animation I had made with XTRANORMAL and asked my students to watch it and write down all the phrasal verbs which were used.
5. After pairing up students, I asked them to choose a minimum of 3 phrasal verbs and create a mini-dialogue. As each dialogue was created, students used the computer in class to type their dialogues into Xtranormal to make an animation.
6. We watched all animations in the following class as we elicited the phrasal verbs used.

QUIZLET flashcards

Phrasal verbs unit 6 flashcards | Quizlet via kwout

How to explore QUIZLET flashcards on the IWB?

A colleague of mine asked me about Quizlet and StudyStack and I have to say I like both. However, there are features in QUIZLET that I love.

Afte watching several tutorials in youtube about the site, I decided to make one myself showing the different ways you can use it with the Interactive White Board (IWB).

http://screenr.com/Kc1 (very good image quality)




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Quizlet and Kwout

I´m going to use this post to talk about two sites I´ve come accross recently.

One is QUIZLET (a memorization tool)

As you can see below, it was created by this brilliant 15-year-old who intended to memorize a huge list of French words. This is how it works: after signing in for free, you create a list of words + translations or words + definitions (my favourite) and then the site automatically generates 5 activities which will help you memorize the intended vocabulary. Now tell me, is it brilliant or not? Click on the video tour (below) for a demonstration.

Flashcards, vocabulary memorization, and studying games | Quizlet via kwout

The other site I´d like to share is KWOUT

As they say, it´s a brilliant way to quote. When writing about an specific site, instead of hitting the printscreen button for a screenshot picture, you can use kwout which grabs the part of the image you want to show and also keeps all the hyperlinks. Very practical tool for bloggers. so this is how I got both images for this post.

kwout | A brilliant way to quote via kwout