Learning useful English

Today, I'd like to show you a webpage where you will be able to learn, as they say, real English. They are a Spanish woman and an English man. With their videos, posts and activities, they try to solve typical doubts Spanish speakers have when learning English and also idioms and expressions we usually just learn while living there. I hope you enjoy it!

Prezi, a very useful tool!

Hi again!

Here I am trying to share with you some more information for your English classes. I discovered this course, in fact thanks to a student, a great tool to do dynamic presentations. It's called Prezi. All you need to do is go to this link and sign up as a new user. The free version includes that your prezi presentations will be public, that's a drawback, but you'll see, it's worth it! When you have a user, you just need to log in and then click on "new prezi". Here's a very good tutorial on how to do a Prezi presentation:

If you want to see a very simple example, here you can see a very short one I made for you. I hope you find it useful and, again, I'd like to see your comments!

Marisa

Interactive games for the Digital Board

Hi all of you!

this post is to share with you some links to two very interesting webpages that you can use to give some use to your digital board. I know sometimes we don't know how to get our students to participate and take advantage of that wonderful tool some of us have in class: the digital board. Here are the two webpages I use the most:

- Games to learn English: in this webpage you will find different game types to practice vocabulary, grammar, word order and spelling. For example, if you click on Fast hands, you'll find a variety of vocabulary games assorted by cathegories where the aim is to click on the image of the animal, object or thing is pronunced before you run out of time. It's fun! There are many other games like the typical Hangman or a Concentration game where you have to match words and images using your memory. Enjoy!

- Eslgamesplus:this is a veeeery complete webpage where you can find many resources for ESL teachers. One of them is the big variety of interactive games it offers. If you click on Games you will see how many they offer. There are classroom games, really good to play in groups in the class, memory games, to play in pairs or also in groups and where they learn not only vocabulary but also pronunciation, boardgames... But the good thing of it is that they are really well structured in levels and contents. So, imagine you are studying numbers 1 to 50 with your students in class, there is a boardgame to practice just that. As I said, they also share printable materials, videos and many online games so.. I believe it's worth it having a look!

Well, that's all for now, I hope you enjoy the two webpages and maybe you can add some more to the list. I'm eager to read your comments!

Have a nice day!

Marisa

There are many ways of being smart :)

Welcome to my new blog!

Hello everyone!

I'm Marisa Rodríguez. English teacher at the Official School of Languages of San Fernando and online student at the International University of Valencia. My new challenge is now learning how to become a Primary Teacher and here I am!

For those who don't know me, I'm 30 years old and I'm from Málaga, a very beautiful village in the South of Spain. I studied the Degree on Translation and Interpretation at the University of Málaga and then did a Vocational Training on Sign Language Interpretation, so I'm fluent in English, German and the Spanish Sign Language. I love languages, so I can also speak a bit of Portuguese, Italian and French too.

As my vocation was always becoming a teacher, I decided to do the necessary Masters Degree on Teacher's Training and now Im lucky enough to be what I always wanted to be, an English teacher.

However, I do believe in the concept of "life long learning" and as I've always loved children and working with them, this year I decided to study Primary Teaching and gave it a try. This blog is the result of one of the subjects I have in the degree: "ICT in Education". This is my second blog, I already had one called Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, which I use to be in contact with my students and share with them important and interesting info, links and material.

This blog, however, will be used as a way of sharing with my partners and (hopefully) my future students interesting information on Primary Teaching and the English Subject. I will upload as many webpages and resources as I can that I think may be useful for you. I do hope you enjoy it and, what is more, find it useful!

Kind regards,

Marisa