Jamie Oliver food revolution videos

Here are some great ideas from Julia Cross on how to use two You Tube clips about Jamie Oliver's food revolution and food education programme.

Click here to read the article (in Spanish). or follow the links below to the videos.

Video 1: Potato or tomato?

N4 teachers, If you’re doing the fruit unit in Footprints 2, you might like to show this Jamie Oliver food revolution day video.

He goes into a classroom in a school in Huttingdon, West Virginia, (the town with the largest number of ‘obese’ people in America)and asks the kids the name of certain fruits and veg. They don’t know what a tomato is!!

Possible task:

1.      Explain the experiment and who Jamie Oliver is. He thinks Food education should be a subject like Maths. Kids should learn how to grow and cook fresh nutritious food.

2.       Watch the video – I’d jot down the fruit and veg they say and or see and the kids have to ü the ones they hear. If there are too many new words, just write a max of 10 and include some of the fruit vocab from Footprints as extras. These will have a × because they won’t see or hear them in the video J

Video 2: Food revolution

Content: Food Revolution day – this short video explains a few facts about what unhealthy eating is doing to children and talks about the petition to present to Govts.

Perhaps for older kids T2, T3 , T4 – good if you’ve doing a unit on food or good for a speaking listening activity + revision of food vocab from a previous unit.

You could invent some questions and give 3 possible answers. Students guess the answer first and then listen to see if they are correct or not.

Class dojo - tutorial

(from Maria)

Here's a link to a video tutorial which describes the different features of the Class Dojo programme (see previous post) and shows how to set up a classroom. Thanks, Jay!

Classroom management app

(from Maria)

Anastasia has recommended Class Dojo. It's an online, easy to use and free behaviour management tool for the classroom. Each student has a profile - complete with their own avatar - to which teachers can assign positive and negative points (or 'dojos') throughout the lessons. The app can be operated by a teacher from their computer. Anastasia is using it with her N3 class.

Thanks Anastasia!

Mental health social inclusion project

From Alistair

An ex-Cambridge School teacher, Fiona Oates, has set up a project to help people recovering from serious mental health issues access English classes.  Here are her comments about the project:

It would be great if you could show the promo video and send the leaflet to your teachers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvIKeT1jfm8 
This first push to generate awareness is so important for our initiative and of course for a group of people already at great risk of social exclusion and who experience a great deal of stigma on a daily basis.

The closing date for the Mental Health Friendly lesson plan competition is 6th June and the task is to design a 45 minute lesson for a general adults English class, that talks about mental health.

Entries to competition@macmillan.es

Macmillan Academy Day in Barcelona

(From Penny)

Macmillan is organising a morning of free seminars on Friday 5th June in Barcelona.

The topics are:
 - Exploring life skills (young adults and adults)
 - Why teach life skills in English lessons (teenagers)
 - Teaching for external exams - can it be fun? (young adults and adults)

If you're interested in signing up, you'll find all the info here.

Free webinar 13th May: Storytelling with YLs

More info here.

Speaking Exam Practice - A Discussion

(From Jay)

I created a document to be projected on the board for practising part 3 of the speaking exam - a discussion.

I prepared it for my INT2 class, but it could be used with any level.

The document can be found here:

S:\Teachers\03 Levels\01 Adult Levels File\05 INT 2 - English File 3rd ed. Int Plus\03 Tests & Exams\Exams\03 Speaking exam\Practice\Speaking part 3

Janet's seminar - Relative clauses

You can see the powerpoint from Janet's seminar on relative clauses here.

Don't miss the list of suggestions for practising relactive clauses on slide 22!

It is also available on the Granollers server: 

S:\Teachers\01 Info for teachers\03 Teacher training and observations\01 Teacher training\2014-15\Seminar handouts\Relative clauses - Janet

Speaking Exam practice - Comparing Photos

(From Jay)

I created a document for my INT2 class which I could project on the board in order for students to practice comparing photos and answering a question about them.

There are various pairs of photos which could be used for a variety of levels.

The link is here:

S:\Teachers\03 Levels\01 Adult Levels File\05 INT 2 - English File 3rd ed. Int Plus\03 Tests & Exams\Exams\03 Speaking exam\Practice\Compare these pictures of...

CAE Ted Talk Lead-in Unit 13

(From Adam)

I found this Ted talk about smiling which makes a nice lead into unit 13 of the CAE book. Students can use it to answer the questions on page 130, exercise 1. There’s a subtitles option in the bottom right corner of the video.

Click on the image to watch the talk. There is also a link saved in the CAE Unit 13 folder.