Breaking News English

An inexhaustable source of new ideas for current affairs-related class activities.
Great inspiration, easy to copy, adapt and paste to Word: just add videos, images and cook for fifteen minutes at 220ºC: perfect recipe?

I love the humungous variety of ideas/sources, good range of questions for pair work and some great links into the bargain!

Down side: somewhat repetetive format (but then again that encourages me to innovate and not just copy!) and boy is it ugly!

BBC Schools - Educational Resources from the BBC

This is the BBC's webspace for schools with lots of resources for students, teachers, parents and learning in general. I've tried a few activities on text types with students from BAT 2 recently and they went quite well.
I really liked the games for learning to distinguish different types of text (Click here). Some were rather easy while others were pretty difficult, even for me... ;-) A useful resource for starting a unit dedicated to improving reading or (as in my case) writing skills. Even students at higher levels still seem to have considerable problems with telling apart different genres and with producing appropriate texts and the text type games are a fun way of raising students' awareness of crucial distinctions.

Welcome to our resources class blog!

Dear student,
welcome to our New Technologies in TEFL class blog. The aim of this blog is to:

• be familiar with post publishing in Blogger
• search and identify interesting resources for teaching and/or learning in TEFL
• share with your classmates useful resources and information
• be able to identify different ways of using a resource in your classroom

So, what should you do right now?

1. Look for an interesting resource useful for teaching or for learning English. This resource can be useful for you as a teacher or for your students as well.

2. Log into this blog (if you don't have access please contact me!) and post your message. Don't forget to include the following information about your resource:

• Name of the resource
• URL
• Brief description
• What it is useful for
• What you liked the most
• What you disliked the most

Don't forget to add the proper labels to your post such as: reading, listening, speaking, writing, audio, video, image, homework, self-assessment, ...

If you want to share more than one resource, please create as many posts as resources. One post per resource!

3. Comment at least 2 resources created by your classmates. Give ideas about how could the resource be used in a real classroom and its potential uses.

I hope you find this activity useful and engaging!!

Laia

PS. Remember that you can rate each resource!