I have my students create scrapbooks in English about a week in their life or about what they did in their holidays. They really enjoy it and the results are often great. Prezi now offers a template for a digital scrapbook (Create a Prezi Scrapbook) and it looks really promising. The only drawback is the Full Article…
The students work for Best Britain Breaks and they are going to present one of the many wonderful destinations in the UK for a selected group of Belgian tourists. They work in pairs. In their Best Britain Breaks episode they should provide the following information: How to get there from Brussels The location of the Full Article…
Storybird is a wonderful tool to create picture books for and with your students. All you need is a free account. As a teacher you can add students, invite them to collaborate or give them an assignment. The works can be published, so parents and friends can appreciate them, too. The best thing, of course, Full Article…
Wordnik is an online dictionary/thesaurus that’s a doddle to use. Just type in the word you want to find out more about and hit enter. Wordnik then finds definitions, examples and heaps of extra information about that word. That extra info includes photos from the web about that word, recent relevant Twitter posts and whether or Full Article…
Visual representations of data are nothing new, but Tag Galaxy takes it to new heights in searching Flickr photos. Enter a single keyword (I used “frog”) and you’ll see a 3D representation of a solar system with the keyword as the sun, orbited by related word “planets” (e.g., “amphibian,” “green,” and “toad”). Click a planet Full Article…
In this activity learners use an online source to plan a family holiday. A key component of the activity is how learners use and develop language skills in a practical context. During the process they should collect words and phrases they come across and note them down. We love this activity because it develops their Full Article…
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