Saving Energy

What can we do to save energy in our houses and help protect the environment?
This is an interesting activity suggested in Larry Ferlazzo's blog from the site myabodo.com. You fix your virtual house and learn about being more environmently correct.

* PLAY this "what's this?"game. It's very good for beginners.
* GAME: Clothes line
SATOSHINI list of games.

ESL video

This is a commercial I used for a listening comprehension exercise, it's very simple and aims at basic learners of English. Watch and tell me if you liked it. Eslvideo.com is a great tool!
CLICK HERE TO DO THE LISTENING

an interactive soundchart

This is the link to an interactive sound chart I´m going to use this semester.
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/download/pron_chart/pron_chart.shtml

Learning with NEWPAPERS

A teacher from Argentina, Jennifer, shared a wonderful site with us, The Learning Edge. You can read the newspaper articles, listen to them and do comprehension and vocabulary activities. GREAT!

http://www.thewclc.ca/edge/

Poodwaddle.com

Reading links

This month in Learning with computers we'll be sharing links to develop reading in English.
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html (Gladys's suggestion)(Enchanting!)

Some of Larry's links:

• http://professorgarfield.org/pgf_ReadingRing.html Put cartoon strips in order and answer comprehension questions. (Great!)


• http://reading.ecb.org/student/index.html It's not fully ready yet but focusses on reading strategies.


• http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/onlinestory.htm#talk a collection of online reading stories.
• http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/book_buddy/gr1_4lily/skill_ae.html Drawing conclusions. (simple but interesting)
• http://www.dfes.gov.uk/readwriteplus/learning_material/portal/predicting-meaning_lit_e2/m01/t08/index.htm Predicting meaning
• http://www.dfes.gov.uk/readwriteplus/learning_material/portal/checking-the-meaning-of-words_lit_e3/m01/t24/index.htm Using a dictionary
• http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/i/enviroprintp.cfm Reading Street signs
• http://www.learnenglish.org.uk/stories_poems_archive_frame.html a collection of stories from BBC
• http://www.britishcouncil.org/learnenglish-central-stories-archive.htm collection of stories
• http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-stories.htm stories for kids
• http://www.stories.org.br/ the same TRUE story in English and portuguese side by side.
• http://www.indianchild.com/short_stories.htm SHORT stories.
• http://www.englishclub.com/reading/short-stories.htm short stories graded by level.

These ones I found in Libardo´s blog:

• http://www.zapdramatic.com/mod1.htm You can read, listen and watch a very exciting story. You are even asked to interact with the events. SUPERB!
• http://www.3xplus.com/pasnet01/scrpasnet01US.htm another interactive DETECTIVE story.
• http://www.kizclub.com/Sbody.html Different stories to read and listen, 3 different levels.
• http://www.nwlg.org/pages/resources/owl/OWL3Book1/Book01/default.htm this story explains about opposites in an interesting way.
• http://www.go4english.com/ffk/archive.php?lang=en&cid=10041002 Great stories.
• http://americanhistory.si.edu/onthemove/games/game2/game2.html The time machine. I had great fun travelling in time!