Educaplay is an educational service that allows teachers to create short activities for their students. All those activities become public and make up a bank of resources for other teachers to use.
An example:
Tutorials
Types of activities:
1. RIDDLE: guessing a word
Example:
Money
2. FILL IN BLANKS: gap-filling
Examples:
There is / There are
Shops
Dialogue
3- CROSSWORD
Example:
Opposites
4. DIALOGUE
Example:
Introductions
5. DICTATION
Example:
English dictation
6. JUMBLED WORD
Examples:
Animal 1
Animal 2
7. JUMBLED SENTENCE
Example:
Tongue twister
8. MATCHING GAME: association
Examples:
Family: match male and female nouns
Oviparous / Viviparous
9. WORDSEARCH PUZZLE
Examples:
Animals
Clothes
10. QUIZ
Example:
Vocabulary
11. INTERACTIVE MAP: labelling for identification
Examples:
Bugs in English
Parts of the face
Home Sweet Home
This blog intends to be a means of information and communication among primary teachers of English as a foreign language.
Thursday, 20 December 2012
Wednesday, 19 December 2012
Pictures to practice vocabulary and description
These are a couple of websites that provide panoramas that can be used for games such as 'I see with my little eye', 'Find something that starts with the letter...' or as a trigger for oral and written descriptions.
Sunday, 16 December 2012
Image search engines
These are three three engines that allow online image search according to criteria such as colour or topic:
Multicolor Search
Wylio and FlickrCC search for 'creative commons' pictures.
Multicolor Search
Wylio and FlickrCC search for 'creative commons' pictures.
Saturday, 15 December 2012
Photo edition
These are three tools that allow the user to edit and transform pictures online:
Photofunia is an online photo editing tool that works like this: you upload any photo and the technology automatically creates photo montages.
It is not necessary to sign up.Tuxpi Photo Editor is also a simple tool that allows to change colours, create montages, add text to pictures, edit photos with many different effects...
Registrations is not requested.
Photovisi is very appropriate for creating collages.
A free account must be created in order to download the picture.
Photofunia is an online photo editing tool that works like this: you upload any photo and the technology automatically creates photo montages. It is not necessary to sign up.
Registrations is not requested.
Photovisi is very appropriate for creating collages.
A free account must be created in order to download the picture.
Friday, 30 November 2012
European programmes
Information about deadlines to apply for the different activities of the Lifelong Learning Programme (Comenius, etc.) has been published.
In Basque
In Spanish
In Basque
In Spanish
Sunday, 25 November 2012
'I Like Pets' eTwinning project
I Like Pets is one of the eTwinning projects awarded last October with the European Quality Label.Details about the aims, organisation and outcomes of ths activity can be found on this wiki.
Saturday, 24 November 2012
Christmas activities
These are some online activities related to Christmas from the British Council's Learn English Kids site:
'Santa's Little Helper' story
Whose present?
Balloon Burst Christmas
'Santa's Little Helper' story
Whose present?
Friday, 23 November 2012
Smories: new stories for children website offers recordings of stories and nursery rhymes told or sung by children (mainly girls!). These are several examples:
Thursday, 22 November 2012
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
A blog on teaching English at nursery levels
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Garammar and Vocabulary
Grammar and Vocabulary from the Teens section of LearnEnglish offers several sets of interactive activities aimed at working on different vocabulary fields.
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Draw a Stickman
A couple of interactive cartoon stories can be tried on the website of Draw a Stickman app. The layout is simple and attractive and the language of the instructions can be useful for reading and vocabulary work on the interactive whiteboard.
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