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Do you have a hard time pronouncing certain sounds in English? Do you believe that it’s nearly impossible to improve your accent? Well, I´m here to tell you that you can drastically improve your pronunciation in a short amount of time.
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A series of sites and tips to help you practise -and improve !- your pronunciation. Delete the scoop?
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"[...] Just like selecting targeted power standards, you should also select 21st century skills to grade and assess. My top 3 are collaboration, presentation and critical thinking, but of course technology literacy is always a popular one. Just remember that you must teach what you intend to assess.[...]" Delete the scoop?
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"Myth: The Super Bowl is watched by over a billion people every year. This myth seems to get spread around by the media every year around Super Bowl time, as well as by fans themselves. For this amount of people to watch the Super Bowl, about one out of every seven people on the planet would have to tune in. This would be particularly remarkable considering only about one out of every seven people on the planet have access to the Super Bowl broadcast [...]"
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Sports provide French high school students with loads of resources as for the BAC 'Myths & Heroes' issue since many famous sportsmen & women are likely to embody heroic models. Other related resources to be scooped soon :-) Delete the scoop?
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As graphic as newsmap, yet different -more dynamic- this visual presentation might attract visual learners... and graphism fans as well :-) Delete the scoop?
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The leading voice in the movement against corporate-based school reform believes in national standards but has come out against the Common Core.
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The Common Core Standards stuff makes me think of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages [CEFRL] : why ? Delete the scoop?
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10 reasons why subtitles make sense when using songs in ELT -definitely agree with "grammar doesn't have to be dull", and "songs are rich in collocations"... Delete the scoop?
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It's no big secret. ESL students won't get very far if they have weak listening skills. [...] Students often believe that to improve their listening they must simply exercise their “ear”. But it’s important for students to understand that it’s not as simple as that – the ear is not a simple muscle to train; listening comprehension is a lot more complex than that. Merely sitting and listening to something for hours won’t do the trick; they can learn a lot more from a focused 15-minute listening exercise." Delete the scoop?
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Charles Schulz's Peanuts comics often conceal the existential despair of their world with a closing...
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Selected strips... might be used in ELT :) Delete the scoop?
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"Free and open educational resources are aplenty and teachers around the world are adding to the repository every day. [...] But how do you actually find the best (or any, for that matter) open education resources? There’s more to it than just firing up the ol’ Google search. The following infographic demonstrates 8 steps to finding the best OER and it’s a skill every teacher should have. [...]" Delete the scoop?
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Historical primary resources from the National Archives : documents and relevant material to build your lessons upon and create your own activities. Delete the scoop?
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How does texting affect grammar ? Is it helping the English language ? ... go and view this infographic to get a few clues. Delete the scoop?
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L'ART DE VIVRE ENSEMBLE - Mémoire : héritages & ruptures - Sentiment d'appartenance : singularités & solidarités - Visions d'avenir : créations & adaptations DGESCO - Juin 2011 Delete the scoop?
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"Welcome to snopes.com, the definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation. - The definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation"
Monica Mirza's insight:
Learning a foreign language nowadays means also searching the Internet for information and facts. As a result of using the ICT, pupils or students are now able to pick these up rather fast... sometimes too fast ! Media literacy is part of a teacher's daily task, no matter how reduced this part might be compared with TEFL itself. As a surfer ought to check a piece of information accuracy before he forwards the email including it... a learner ought to check some pieces of information accuracy when gathering them online for his own work. As well as www.hoaxbuster.com www.snopes.com is an interesting tool for both of them :o)
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“I’m an entertainer. I have to do a song and dance to capture their attention,” said Hope Molina-Porter, 37, an English teacher at Troy High School in Fullerton, Calif., who has taught for 14 years. She teaches accelerated students, but has noted a marked decline in the depth and analysis of their written work. She said she did not want to shrink from the challenge of engaging them, nor did other teachers interviewed, but she also worried that technology was causing a deeper shift in how students learned. She also wondered if teachers were adding to the problem by adjusting their lessons to accommodate shorter attention spans. “Are we contributing to this?” Ms. Molina-Porter said. Delete the scoop?
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Monica Mirza's insight:
Onlist S. Bonfils (a colleague) has just reminded us of "Things fall apart" as its Nigerian author -Chinua Achebe- has died (the novel's considered the archetype of the African novel in English) . Should you plan to deal with the novel, its author and/or dwell in the African literature domain... let me suggest you ' www.postcolonialweb.org ', a website I discovered a while ago. It covers"Contemporary postcolonial and postimperial literature in English" and contains loads of relevant analyses and information to help you study them with your students. Hope it'll be of some use :-) Delete the scoop?
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Many things that are commonplace activities for adults — driving, voting, and paying taxes, for example — are not appropriate for children.
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"[...] commercial publishers are racing to produce materials aligned with them, school districts are re-writing their curricula, testing companies are creating new tests to measure students competence[...]"
Got it. This is part of what reminds me of the CEFRL (see previous post on Diane Ravitch's opposing the Commo Core Standards.... Sigh :'( Delete the scoop?
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"Learning a language is a very personal endeavor. Each individual uses different ways to reach the same result: being able to communicate in a foreign language. [...] The problem starts when a teacher or teaching product lifts one of these approaches on a pedestal and tries to sell it as the “one and only” way. [...] For one person, immersion might be the way to go, for another one formal grammar study might be the best. In the end, however, each and everyone has to decide for themselves what works and what doesn’t. This article is just a little reminder that you shouldn’t take anyone’s word for it."
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Smart drawings that tell it all -love the "100% immersion" one :-) Delete the scoop?
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"Whether you are teaching or learning Shakespeare in a traditional classroom, in an online course, in high school, or college, there are resources below that will make teaching and learning about Shakespeare and fun and engaging ...
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I scooped a while ago on Youtube's animated Shakespeare plays (from the BBC) -there : http://sco.lt/5RtYRd ; and I've just stumbled upon a webpage that suggests a series of links to help you start studying the playwright and its plays... filled with gems and might be of some use :-) - - - - - - Public Domain image of William Shakespeare "Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin.", edited by Beth Crumpler 
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February 24, 1:19 AM
Some good links for teaching Shakepseare ... very well organized! Delete the scoop?
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" Many English Language teachers, when deciding to work with a video clip in their classrooms, make a false assumption that for an activity to be considered as really teaching, then prior to showing it, they'd better sit down for a few hours, prepare an extensive worksheet filled with vocabulary and grammar questions and what-not...in order to turn it into a good pedagogical exercise, you know to ensure it's really not just glorified babysitting. ;-)Personally, I don't agree and I really don't think that extensive worksheets provide a particularly authentic experience - such a thing mainly just erodes the power of the message within the video, takes away the, inherent pleasure in learning from TED speakers. [...]" Delete the scoop?
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Cette plateforme collaborative/contributive est destinée à l'accompagnement éducatif et la formation professionnelle : basée sur un lecteur vidéo innovant elle a été développée par Danier Roucou pour la société EDERNET. Entouré d'une équipe d'enseignants et de documentalistes, ils y proposent des contenus numériques élaborés (vidéo interactives). - - - - - - - - "Anciennement salarié au département Actions éducatives de France5, Damien ROUCOU est enseignant à l'université de Paris-IV la Sorbonne et formateur à l'IUFM de Créteil dans une discipline directement liée à son projet : l'éducation à l'image et les ressources audiovisuelles pour les enseignants." Delete the scoop?
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"[...] the results of the 2011 Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS) were published. [...] There's a small but decisive factor that is often forgotten in these discussions : differences in orthography across languages. Lots of factors go into learning to read. The most obvious is learning to decode -learning the relationship between letters and (in most languages) sounds. Decode is an apt term. The correspondence of letters and sound is a code that must be cracked.
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Which probably also explains why English is such a hard school subject for French dyslexic learners. The article offers a relevant insight. Delete the scoop?
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Life. Culture. Style. Intelligent Life is an award-winning magazine from The Economist. With its spirited writing and evocative photography, Intelligent Life is food for the brain and a feast for the eyes.
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Thanks to A. de Barbuat, a fellow list member, I've discovered this bi-monthly from "The Economist" : beyond politics and economy, loads of interesting articles and smart pictures that have us feel... more intelligent ;-) And provide with possible ELT resources as well ! Delete the scoop?
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"Intermediate reading and listening activity about Christmas shopping in Oxford Street, in London."
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The articles are a bit shorter than those at Breaking News English and they offer audio recordings and vocabulary lists.