Prezi Website Including Lots of Christmas Activities

Paul English has created and entire website dedicated to prezis at eslprezi.com

There is plenty of content which is not level specific and loads of stuff that teachers can use in their Christmas lessons

Thanks a lot Paul!!!

Christmas worksheets - In-company classes

(From Jo)

Dear all,
We have made some Christmas worksheets for you to use in your last class with in-company students. It is very important that if your class is being covered by another teacher on panto days, that you DO NOT USE these worksheets with your students. This means the following teachers should not use the Christmas worksheets so standby teachers can use them:

Teacher	Group
Jay Kirkpatrick	14/AJA01
Jay Kirkpatrick	14/PARE/AN/Joan-Rama
Jo Appleyard	14/GONAL01
Jo Appleyard	14/FRDNBG01
John Tatham	14/GARNOVA05
John Tatham	14/BACHILLER02
David McAulay	14/MADFORM01
Jay Kirkpatrick	14/RAJAPACK02
Jay Kirkpatrick	14/RAJAPACK03
John Tatham	14/GARNOVA06
John Tatham	14/PARE/AN/JoseLuis-Gimenez

Here are the worksheets:

Christmas worksheet - Elementary to Pre-Intermediate

Christmas stocking game - Strong pre-int to Adv

Christmas worksheet - Int to Advanced

You can also find them on the Granollers server: S:\Teachers\03 Levels\03 In-company Levels File\02 Resources\01 Speaking and Listening\2014-15\S&L In-company\Christmas

Enjoy!

Standby YL Christmas lesson (INF-N6)

(from Maria)

I've prepared a YL Christmas lesson for teachers who are going to be covering YL off-site classes on panto days. If you are in the panto, you are welcome to use it if your students have their last class on Monday or Tuesday (so for example on-site YL classes) but please leave it for the cover teacher to use if their last class is on panto days.

Here's the link to the lesson plan (incl. material). I've saved it here on the system: S:\Teachers\03 Levels\02 YL Levels File\Kids Flashcards & Resources\Christmas 2014

'How I met your mother' - Christmas video worksheet

Emma has made a Christmas video worksheet based on an episode of 'How I met your mother'.  It's aimed at FCE or higher because there are no subtitiles.

I have saved the worksheet (with teacher's answers) in the FCE level folder, in 'Extra material':

S:\Teachers\03 Levels\01 Adult Levels File\07 FCE - Gold First New Edition (Year B)\07 Other material and information

Thanks, Emma!

Business skills and DVD worksheets

(from Jo)

Dear all,

There are some more business skill and DVD worksheets for you to use if you like. We've got:

ELEMENTARY - Skills: Telephoning 2, DVD: Transport, New Zealand
PRE-INTERMEDIATE - Skills: Telephoning 2, DVD: Rio de Janeiro, BP
INTERMEDIATE - Skills: Meetings 1, DVD: UAE, Mercedes Benz
UPPER INTERMEDAITE - Skills: Meetings 1, DVD: Happiness, Charity

The business skill worksheets can be found here (Granollers server):

S:\Teachers\03 Levels\03 In-company Levels File\02 Resources\04 Business English Worksheets\International Express

and the DVD material can be found here:

S:\Teachers\03 Levels\03 In-company Levels File\02 Resources\Video and audio

Enjoy!
Jo

Webinar: Proficiency - Teaching the compulsory essay

Proficiency teachers

There is a Cambridge English webinar next week on teaching the compulsory essay for the Proficiency writing paper.

Follow this link to register for free.

Problem Solving in Business English

(from Jim)

Now that you've got to know your students and their business, here's an idea for a warmer or filler from Vicky Loras' blog. You could choose the topic of the crisis/problem to either lead into the topic of the lesson to use it as a warmer or round off the class nicely.

http://vickyloras.wordpress.com/2012/08/13/problem-solving-in-business-english/

Powerpoint presentations for various grammar points

Adam has created a number of powerpoints to teach, practise or revise various grammar points.
There is also a pasapalabra template so you can create your own activities.

They have been saved in Teachers / 03 Levels / 06 Projector resources / 02 Games and Powerpoint templates /Grammar Presentations

The title will give you a rough idea of the suitable level

As you can see there's a real selection so do have a look.

Thanks a lot Adam!

PFCE Be Used To / Get Used To

PFCE Unit 5, pages 54-56
Charlotte has created a revision practice activity

It is saved in the PFCE folder, unit 5

Thanks Charlotte!

Phrasal verbs with TURN pasapalabra

FCE, unit 5, page 50
Adam has created a pasapalabra

It can be found in the FCE level folder, unit 5

Thanks Adam!

CAE Negative Prefixes

Adam has created a powerpoint presentation for negative prefixes for CAE, page 53

It is saved in the CAE level folder, unit 5

Thanks Adam!

CAE Vocab Pasapalaba

Adam has created a pasapalara for CAE, page 50, unit 5

It is saved in the CAE level file, unit 5.

Thanks Adam!

Penny's seminar notes: Do something different with your coursebook

You can find the handout from my seminar 'Do something different with your coursebook' from 25.11.14 here.

The series of articles from English Teaching Professional that I based the seminar on can be found here.

One of the things we talked about was using the TPET or PCAE ipacks to make pelmansim, noughts and crosses and hangman games for ANY level.  You can use those ipacks to create your own games for any class!  Read Steve's step-by-step instructions here.

We also looked at using Quizlet to make vocabulary sets which you can then play games with.  It's a website that you can sign up to for free.  You type in a set of words and definitions.  You can either play games with the online vocab cards in class or you can invite your students to the page and they can flick through the cards at home to study them and then play games with them. It lets you track their progress so you know how much they've studied.  Click on the link, sign up and have a go!