Nº 5. December 2013

December 2013

Nº 5

CONTENTS Editorial............................................................................ 1 News ..................................................................................2 Storytelling........................................................................6 School Life........................................................................ 7 Art and Entertainment ................................................... 18 Tips for Teachers.............................................................. 19 Credits............................................................................... 24

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Editorial The ESL Times is an online Collaborative Project. It's a place where we publish an English digital magazine while learning and enjoying.

We started it last March 2013. We've wanted to do this project a good experience where many schools could participate.

In this time we've been showing this project in many diferent places (Novadors, Granada, Sevilla, Braga, Oviedo). Now, at the end of the year, we want to give thanks everybody for participating and collaborating: 96 blog posts, 72 comments, more than 30.000 visitants...

These are an excellent dates.

We'll come back next year 2014!. Thanks and Merry Christmas!.

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Contact us: Blog: http://theesltimes.blogspot.com.es/ Twitter: @TheESLTimes E-mail: magazine.esl@gmail.com

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NEWS &

Back to school icebreakers 2013-09-02

Ready to get back to lessons? Looking forward to meeting your new students and start breaking the ice?

Here you are four icebreakers for those first lessons when you are all willing to get to know one another better.

Hope you enjoy them!

New School Year Greetings We all know that after summer breaks, the first thing back in class is to introduce ourselves and tell everybody about our vacation, but, why not doing it through a voice mail? That will give everybody time to settle down a little bit.

Speakpipe allows you to record, receive, download, answer, and listen to your students' new school year greetings. Just embed it on your blog and let those shy new students leave their voice messages. Besides, you will be able to start assessing their speaking skills.

New School Year Resolutions Build a Padlet wall and get your students to put their wishes and expectations for the new school year on it. It is a quick, easy and collaborative tool that you can always keep on filling along the year and then use it at the end of terms to check out if their resolutions are on the right track.

What would your students like to know about you?

As a teacher, prepare a timeline of your life in advance. Then, get students to ask you questions so they try to guess your birth date, what months are special for you and why, which years you may regard as turning points, and so on.

Then, let them see your timeline to check if they were right. Finally, you can ask them to create and share their own timelines. Timerine makes this task quite easy and entertaining.

Self-portraits Ask your students to plan a paragraph about themselves, their self-portrait, and share their writings through an online drive. Revise and assess the drafts together. When they have a final piece to hand in, get them to read them aloud as a rehearsal, and then record their self-portraits.

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3 You may choose either to create an audio or a video gallery with all the outputs and disseminate them all over your favourite video channel or sound community.

If they are brave enough, you could even challenge them to video or audio stream their self-portraits.

Photo from ELTpics

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Do Now 2013-09-10

Do Now is a weekly activity for students to respond to current issues through the use KQED's awardwinning online media resources and social media tools like Twitter.

Do Now orientation Below are some materials for you to look at at your leisure. The orientation is asynchronous, which means that you can view them at any time between now and Sept. 13.

To show that you have completed looking at the materials, I require that you fill out an action plan. This plan will help you think through Do Now implementation with your students. It's a Google form that you will fill out and the link is at the end of this email.

So here are the materials for the orientation. They consist of videos for viewing and then the action plan that you must fill out. The entire orientation should not take more than 2 hours to complete. For each part, click on the title of the section to access the video.

-Part 1: Set the stage: How Do Now looks in the classroom. This video profiles how a class at Burton High School in San Francisco implemented KQED Do Now. We hear from the Social Studies teacher and her students about the project and its impact.

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2: The Value of Do Now: KQED Do Now overview. This video is a basic overview of KQED Do Now, outlining what Do Now is and explains how it adds value to learning.

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3: Twitter Basics This section contains 4 short videos (well, the Twitter 101 is a little longer) that provide a basic understanding of Twitter, its interface, functionality, how to download it and use it, and how to use if for Do Now. These videos may be useful to share with your students as well. The links to the videos and the guide are here: 1. Twitter 101 – An Overview of Twitter's Interface and Functionality 2. How to Set up a Twitter Account on your Computer. Video Š 2013 The ESL Times

4 3. How to Download the Twitter App and Set Up an Account on a Mobile Device. Video 4. How to Access Do Now on Twitter and Tweet to Join the Conversation. Video -Part 4: Preparing to Implement Do Now with your Class This video explores all of the variables and challenges of implementing Do Now in the classroom, and will help you plan for success. We also published a Guide to Using Twitter for Your Teaching Practice that can be useful for thinking about how to introduce it to your class in an educational context. You can access the Twitter Guide here<http://education.kqed.org/edspace/how-to-use-twitter-in-yourteaching-practice/&gt;.

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5: Try This Week's Do Now for Practice Go ahead and try doing this week's Do Now, which looks at the pay for fast-food workers. We are asking students whether they would pay more for fast food if the money would go to increasing workers' pay. Here's the link to this week's Do Now: http://blogs.kqed.org/education/2013/09/06/making-fast-food-for-little-pay/ Or you can go ahead and create/open your Twitter account, follow @KQEDedspace and then find our latest Do Now tweet.

You can retweet something meaningful that you find on Twitter, tweet an interesting article that you feel addresses the issue, tweet an opinion, or reply to someone who already tweeted for this Do Now. Remember to use @KQEDedspace and #DoNowFastfood in your tweet.

The last part of the orientation asks you to fill out the action plan which is a link to a Google form where we ask a series of questions that will help you come up with a strategy to implement Do Now. You should copy and paste your responses so that you have a record of them. Again, the action plan is due on Sept. 13 so that you are ready to begin Do Now with your students the week of Sept.

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How to use dinamic views in this blog 2013-09-11

A few days ago, we've added a very simple element to this Blog that it allows us enjoy new possibilities of viewing the content.

Thanks to Blogger, you can choose between some different and interesting views. Just have to try.

1Âş Clic on the word "Views" under the header.

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2º Look at the menu on the left. Clic on the short arrow and select.

3º You've got seven possibilities to test, seven different styles: Classic, Flipcard, Magazine, Mosaic, Sidebar, Snapshot, Timeslide I hope you like it. Please, tell us with a comment which is your favourite view

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Is Health Care a Human Right? 2013-09-23

This week's Do Now asks students if they think that health care is a basic human right and if all people should, regardless of wealth, have access to quality health care.

This issue is back in the news since open enrollment in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace, popularly known as Obamacare, begins October 1, meaning that people will soon be able to sign up for government-subsidized health insurance programs. The House GOP has also launched a shutdown battle by voting to defund Obamacare. whitehouse.gov

Here's the link to the Do Now: http://blogs.kqed.org/education/2013/09/20/is-health-care-a-human-right/ To respond to the Do Now, you can comment below or tweet your response. Be sure to begin your tweet with @KQEDEdspace and end it with #DoNowACA

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STORYTELLING & You aren´t alone 2013-12-12 Título: You aren´t alone.

Centro: IES Jaime Gil de Biedma (Nava de la Asunción. Segovia) Sección: Storytelling Etapa educativa: 4º ESO Autores: Rialta Castán Marigómez

Link: http://static.bitstripsforschools.com/r05.swf?c=FQ0XR

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SCHOOL LIFE &

History magazine about our city 2013-09-16

One of the last activities we did during the past school year was to invite our students to investigate about the history of our surrounded area and publish and article about it. With all the articles we create a HISTORY MAGAZINE using Glossi.

Here you have the post we published for them to read and understand the task.

You are going to become a history journalist!!!

After a term full of history lessons. We are going to investigate about the history of our area. And publish an article and create a History Magazine in the class.

The article will have five parts: •Title (It should be atractive, not just the name of the Historical period) •Historical context of the period, some short information talking about history.

•Documentary about this period. (It should be an storytelling about daily life in this historical period) •Brief summary about what happened in our area (Aguilar de Campoo) •The authors and from which websites or books you took the information (the bibliography).

As we have done in all the tasks it is very important to follow the process and the following steps: 1. We will divide the class into 9 groups (most of them will be pairs and some will be threes)

• Prehistory.

• Preroman times.

• Roman Times • Visigothics.

• Muslims.

• Christian Kingdoms.

• Catholic Monarchs and XVI century.

• XVIII Century.

• XIX Century.

2. Let's review all the history posts to look for information about your history period.

SGAguilar Javier Ramos: History Post.

3. Write a short summary for the HISTORICAL CONTEXT with the most important facts.

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8 4. CREATE a documentary or "storytelling" about life in the historical period: • My life in the Paleolithic: A Digital Story can be a good example for you.

• Tips: Remember to create your storyboard and script and show it to your teacher to check you are in the right way.

5. With the following links INVESTIGATE and WRITE a paragraph about this historical period in our area of Aguilar de Campoo.

• Prehistory: The nearest Prehistory areas and remains are Altamira and Atapuerca.

• Preromans times: There was a tribe along this lands The Támaricos and also is very famous El Castro del Monte Bernorio.

• Roman Times: The Romans founded many cities in our province. Romans in Palencia • Visigothics: We can look for information in the village of Mave.

• Muslims: We don't really have remains of them but we can know what happened on Muslim times inValderredible.

• Christian Kingdoms: Aguilar was founded in this period. Also we have important Romanesque momuments.

• Catholic Monarch and the XVI Century: Aguilar had Marquis. Also Charles I of Spain and V of Germany visited our village. And we have an important explorer Juan Martín • XVIII Century: The Catastro del Marqués de la Ensenada talked about Aguilar.

• XIX Century: The French troops were here.

6. You will create your article for the Magazine. We are going to use a new app to create it:

This video will help you to know how to deal with it: (It was done by @jferna35) Your teacher will say to you what page of the magazine you have to do and also the username and the password to enter in your class magazine.

7. Each member of the group will write a post in the kidblog as it was a page of the magazine. And send it to the teacher through the EDMODO.

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9 8. EVALUATION: • We are going to have 100 points.

• 50 points will be used by the teachers. (Using the rubric) • 28 will be used by self-evaluation. (Using the rubric, it is individually) • 22 will be used by the teamwork. (Give out maximum 22 points to each member of the group) You are going to create a paper as draft. You have to include: •Your name and members of your group.

•Your self-evaluation with the rubric. (Maximum 28 points) •Your teamwork's points. (Maximun 22 points) Here you have the Rubric Here you can have a look about the products the students did after a couples of weeks working on it: Year 6A

We hope you liked it and you found it useful for your English or Science Lessons.

Javier Ramos Sancha Julián Sanz Mamolar @javiramossancha @julisanzmamolar http://sgaguilarjramos.blogspot.com http://sangregorio5aguilardecampoo.blogspot.com.es/

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Comenius Visit to Poland 2013-09-24

Here I want to show you a video summary of the last visit we celebrate the last school year to conclude our Comenius Project: Travelbroadens the mind. Let’s travel together!

We were hosted by families of our partners schools: Zespół Szkolno-Przedszkolny nr 3 im.Jana Pawła II in Ribnyck (Poland). In this visit we were six 10-year-old students and two teachers. We were really happy because with this visit our students changed their mind and knowing another culture they really enjoyed. What at the begging was just OK at the end it was amazing for them.

Following this link you can have a look to all the presentations the students did about the visit.

BlogViajando con Nubi: Visita a Polonia de los alumnos.

We hope you like it.

Javier Ramos Sancha @javiramossancha http://sgaguilarjramos.blogspot.com

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European Day of Languages at San Gregorio School 2013-10-04

Year 5 students and their teacher have created an e-Twinning project to work on it along this school year. It is titled: "Celebrating Together" (You will find more information following the link) In this project we are working together three european schools: • Holy Trinity School (Guildford, England) • Zespół Szkolno-Przedszkolny nr 3 im. Jana Pawła II (Rybnick, Poland) • Colegio San Gregorio (Aguilar de Campoo, Spain)

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11 Our main aim with this project is to work on the calendar of International days. So each month we will have a special celebration of one chosen day. (European Day of Languages, International Day of the Enviroment, Day of Europe....).

The first activity was the celebration of THE EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES on the 26th September 2013. Here you can see the activity we did at San Gregorio School and which the teacher published in the own blogs: • Mi primer año en Red XXI: European Day of Languages • SGAguilar Javier Ramos: European Day of Languages This has been the final product of the activity at San Gregorio School.

Video 1 Video 2 This is the final product of the celebration which took place at Holy Trinity School in Inglaterra: Video 3 And this is the final product of the celebration which took place at Polish school: Video 4

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF YOU. IT'S A MARVELLOUS JOB!!

LET'S VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE e-Twinning PROJECT. "Celebrating together" Julián Sanz Mamolar (@julisanzmamolar/Mi primer año en RedXXI) Javier Ramos Sancha (@javiramossancha/ SGAguilar Javier Ramos)

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Who is to Blame for the USA Government Shutdown? 2013-10-08

This week's Do Now focuses on the government shutdown… And this is the question, Who is to blame for the government shutdown?

At Do Now, they are featuring a great video from PBS NewsHour with lots of excellent classroom resources from NewsHour Extra, the Lowdown, and the New York Times. These resources can help students better understand the complexity of our government.

You can find this week's Do Now here:http://blogs.kqed.org/education/2013/10/04/who-isto-blame-for-the-government-shutdown/ To respond to the Do Now, you can tweet your response. Be sure to begin your tweet with @KQEDedspace and end it with #DoNowShutdown

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European Day of Languages at CPR Los Castaños 2013-10-23

CPR "Los Castaños" have celebrated the European Day of Languages through an Etwimming Project.

This project consists on an exchanges of "Greeting Cards" between the countries which are partners of it. These were written in the mother tongue and English.

Schools from most of European countries have taken part in it. We have received in Pitres cards from England, France, Portugal, Sweden, Island, Ukraine, Slovenia, Poland, Italy, Greece, Denmark, Ireland, etc.

After that, we have been working on looking for information about these countries and each pupil has done a small presentation to their partners of this country. Of course, we have also sent our "Greeting Cards" to schools.

You could find the post in our classroom blog.

Greetings. Alberto Molina Cervilla

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My summer holidays by Year 2 2013-10-22

At the beginning of the school years we wanted to start with our Portfolio we decided to tell everybody what we did along OUR SUMMER HOLIDAYS. We drawn a picture about the thing we have liked the most of the holidays. Later, we learnt the past tense of the verb go. We wanted to put into words where we were and who were with us. So we write a sentence in our pictures using the past.

These have been our final products:

http://youtu.be/sApU3rtOlAc

http://photopeach.com/album/18qltqt?ref=est We hope you liked it and if you want letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s do it with your students.

Javier Ramos Sancha @javiramossancha http://sgaguilarjramos.blogspot.com

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Let's cook to celebrate Halloween 2013-11-04

Year 2 of Primary School San Gregorio School.

Last week one of my collegues gave me a big Pumpkin and we decided not only to decorate it for Halloween day. We decided to COOK IT! We cooked Halloween Cream.

First of all we wrote down the Recipe in our notebooks.

1. Then we needed to check if we had all the ingredients and the materials.

2. Let's follow the recipe. Peel the potatoes and the pumpkin.

3. Chop the pumpkin and the potatoes. And then put everything into the pot.

4. Let's boil it for 1 hour. (Mari Luz, our school cook, helped us with this). And then we had to blend everything with the cheese.

5. Then we set the table (We used the school library for it).

6. We ate it and IT WAS DELICIOUS!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN FROM CLASS YEAR 2B OF SAN GREGORIO SCHOOL !!!

I hope you like it and you had found it useful for your lessons.

Javier Ramos Sancha @javiramossancha SGAguilar Javier Ramos

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My Dream Classroom 2013-11-08

Have you ever wished to have a jacuzzi in your classroom? Or, maybe a tennis court, a piano, some clothes shops and, of course, plenty of computers and mobile phones everywhere?

Students of ESO1B at IES La Zafra in Motril have had the opportunity of designing their ideal classroom. Most of them are in Hawaii, but we also have classrooms in New York, London and even...Jupiter!!! Five to ten students per classroom as average and most of the times, with no teachers. (...)

They have even been allowed to chose the subjects taught in those Dream Classrooms and, of course, the winner is: Wassap. One hour everyday, followed by lessons of tuenti, shopping, football, and, of course, PSP, XBox... No need to have a recess as you can sit comfortably in the huge sofas placed everywhere or have a swim in the huge swimming pools that you can find in almost all of our classrooms. And, believe it or not, in mid november, in Motril, most of the classroom didn't forget to install... Air Conditioned!!

You can find more details about the process of building those classrooms as well as the evaluation rubric on our CLASSROOM BLOG And here is a little sample of our work so far: MY DREAM CLASSROOM on PhotoPeach.

Enjoy!!

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American History 2013-11-12 Have a look at these great popplets by the 2 ESO students from Group D, at IES Vicente Medina, Archena (Murcia).

Thanks to their teacher, Inma López, for sending their outputs.

Popplet nº1 Popplet nº2 Popplet nº3 Popplet nº4 Popplet nº5 Popplet nº6

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Native Americans 2013-11-21

Thanks to the students from 2 ESO, Groups B and C, at IES Vicente Medina, Archena (Murcia), for this excellent article about Native Americans.

http://archibilingual.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/native-americans/

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Podcasting at CPR Los Castaños 2013-11-25

Year 4, 5 and 6 CPR "Los Castaños" have recorded some podcasts with English talks. http://alpujarring.blogspot.com.es/2013/11/conversaciones-en-ingles.html First of all, we made the talks in the class. After that we worked in pairs to record using the app SPREAKER. You could find in our classroom blog ALPUJARRING and in our spreaker's account.

Greetings. Alberto Molina Cervilla

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E-Twinning Project: Celebrating Together 2013-12-16

As a part of our e-Twinning Project: Celebrating Together we have celebrate the International Day of the Rights of the Child.

We did different activities, you can have a look to them in the blogs of two of the Spanish teachers:

•Mi Primer Año en Red XXI: 20th of November. Internationala Day of the Rights of the Child.

•SGAguilar Javier Ramos: 20th of November. Internationala Day of the Rights of the Child.

The final product in the three European Schools was to create a video in which the students said one of the rights of the Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959).

Here you can see the final products of this activity.

Video 1 Video 2 Video 3 Video 4 WE HOPE YOU LIKED THEM!!!

For further information about the project you could have a look to our blog: e-Twinning project: Celebrating together

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ART AND ENTERTAINMENT &

Follow me! 2013-09-17 Have you got a twitter account?

Not yet? Well, it's about time to open one, isn't it?

And if you already belong to the blue bird tribe, or even if you're a twitter addict, are you sure you're taking the most out of your timeline?

For example, do you use twitter to improve your English?

Let us give you some advice on that topic, and most of all, leave the door open to know other people's opinions and choices in order to make our own "bank of twitstars" :-) To begin with, obviously, you can follow us, that is, @theesltimes and, if you want, the teachers who hide behind this project,@capileiratic, @Anna_Soroya, @mjgsm, @julisanzmamolar, @teacherojeda Here are some more teachers, students, organizations... which, in my opinion, are worth to follow, but perhaps the most interesting part of this post is still to come and it is the possibility of including, by means of a comment, your own choice, the suggestions of your "Musts" Do not hesitate in writing comments with your favourite followees. We will share anf follow them too.

Here the list to start with: Inglés al día ‫@ ‏‬inglesaldiaSpeak & Fun Idiomas ‫@‏‬speakandfun Trinity College SpPt ‫@‏‬Trinity_SP_PT Muro de los Idiomas ‫@ ‏‬MuroIdiomas English on the Rocks ‫@ ‏‬EnglishOTR Bilingual Times ‫@ ‏‬bilingualtimes Learning English ‫@ ‏‬EnglishBlogCom Real Life English ‫@ ‏‬RealLifeEng Oxford Dictionaries ‫@ ‏‬OxfordWords English Trackers ‫@ ‏‬EnglishTrackers iT's for Tweeters ‫@ ‏‬itsfortweeters Teaching English ‫@ ‏‬TeachingEnglish EnglishClub ‫@ ‏‬EnglishClub EnglishCafe.com ‫_@ ‏‬EnglishCafe Pilar Pamblanco ‫@ ‏‬englishteach8 We look forward to reading your comments!!

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TIPS FOR TEACHERS &

Create a Google style classroom newspaper 2013-09-19

We are sure all of you have some time used various tools to create digital newspapers and paper ones, too.

Our first tip for teachers focuses on creating a newspaper using Google Docs, a very simple tool which allows us to easily design attractive, collaborative and successful papers written by any grade reporter.

Steps: 1. Explain what Google Docs is if you are about to first use it with your ESL students, as well as what it is for and how it can be a nice writing collaborative tool. Students are bound to grasp everything quickly and it should not take over an hour to get them going.

2. Choose an adequate template to design the newspaper: Student newspaper is a good one.

3. Let students pick up their roles as reporters and decide on the newspaper sections, number of issues published, frequency, and so on.

4. Allow some time for students to gather information, search for pictures, draft their articles and contribute to the newspaper. Do not forget that it is important to respect licences and quote sources for images and any other multimedia elements that you may include in your publication.

5. Arrange self-assessment, peer to peer assessment and finally your own assessment. Rubrics are a nice means for the three kinds of assessment. You might like to use Rubistar to compile your own rubrics.

6. If needed, do some final editing, download it as a pdf file and hand it out to everybody at school. Youpublisher also provides you with the chance to have a digital publication.

The final output might look something like the example below, an idea by Laura Chesebro: The Baseball Gazette.

Source: http://www.thethinkingstick.com/the-classroom-newspaper-googledocs-style/ Ready to put this tip into practice in class?

Why don't you compile your own classroom newspaper? We'd love to gather your newspapers here, all your contributions are welcome!

Just make a comment here or mail us with the output you designed with your students after having followed the steps of this tip.

Good luck!

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& 48 stories for English Tenses 2013-09-30 Today we want to show you a good recourse if you are learning or working grammar topics.

It can be very useful for teachers and students because can practice all 12 English tenses (simple present, present progressive, simple past, future perfect...) as well as reading, writing, sentence structure and comprehension. http://www.really-learn-english.com/english-grammar-tenses.html It's an easy way to learn and teach grammar through stories.

Here it is: •4 illustrated stories for each of the 12 tenses (for example, 4 stories to practice the present perfect, 4 stories to practice the future continuous, etc.)

•48 stories altogether •Short and easy stories •Each story comes with a set of exercises and an answer key •Available online, and as downloadable/printable worksheets •Absolutely free to use.

Thanks to Heidi J Bai one of the teachers behind the web http://www.really-learn-english.com/, sharing this work with us.

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Who is to Blame for the USA Government Shutdown? 2013-10-08 This week's Do Now focuses on the government shutdownâ&#x20AC;Ś And this is the question, Who is to blame for the government shutdown?

At Do Now, they are featuring a great video from PBS NewsHour with lots of excellent classroom resources from NewsHour Extra, the Lowdown, and the New York Times. These resources can help students better understand the complexity of our government.

You can find this week's Do Now here:http://blogs.kqed.org/education/2013/10/04/who-is-toblame-for-the-government-shutdown/ To respond to the Do Now, you can tweet your response. Be sure to begin your tweet with @KQEDedspace and end it with #DoNowShutdown

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Halloween VoiceMail 2013-10-28

Enjoy receiving voice messages through SpeakPipe?

What about spooky Halloween voice messages?

Halloween is just around the corner, so we built a public Halloween voicemail board for recording, listening to, and sharing scary Halloween voice messages.

Visit the board here.

Go ahead, record your spooky messages and share them with others.

Don't be shy - you can become a Halloween spooky-star!

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Create a Comic with Marvel 2013-11-05

Every kid knows Marvel characters: the Avengers, Captain America, Spiderman, Ironman, Thor, and so on, but now you can you use them in your classroom, break creative and have your students write their own Marvel comics, and all that, online.

Visit Marvel and start creating. Either a whole book or just a strip, your students will surely love it, have fun and at the same time, practise their writing skills in English!

Great for Primary Education Storytelling Lessons!

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How Should We Address Poverty? Do Now as a class!!! 2013-11-06 How should the U.S. treat people who are living in poverty?

What would an anti-poverty agenda look like?

Devise one piece of legislation that could make a difference.

The issue comes up as the US Census Bureau announced that the US poverty rate has remained roughly at this same level since 2011. 46 million Americans — 15 percent of the population — are now counted as living in poverty.

The main resource is an interview of Robert Reich who talks about “Inequality for All,” a documentary about the former labor secretary’s personal crusade to explain to Americans why everyone should care about the nation’s growing economic disparity and divisiveness.

There is also a great comic infographic that defines poverty from KQED's The Lowdown (under the More Resources section).

If you are teaching B2 - C1 lessons, join Do Now and get in touch with lots of students and teachers around the world at the same time as you make your contribution on current issues through social networks, from an educational point of view.

Here's the Do Now: http://blogs.kqed.org/education/2013/11/01/how-should-we-addresspoverty/ To respond to the Do Now, you can comment below or tweet your response. Be sure to begin your tweet with @KQEDEdspace and end it with #DoNowPoverty

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JFK 2013-11-26

Fifty years ago, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in a motorcade through downtown Dallas, Texas. Although his life was cut short, his legacy of supporting civil rights and American technological advancement still resonates today.

This week's Do Now conversation is framed around how President Kennedy inspired a generation of scientists with his mission to be the first country to go to the Moon.

Does your generation have a “Moon mission”? And if so, what does it look like? If not, what should it look like?

You can view the Do Now here: http://blogs.kqed.org/education/2013/11/22/what-is-this-generations-moon-mission/ To respond to the Do Now, you can comment below or tweet your response. Be sure to begin your tweet with @KQEDEdspace and end it with #DoNowJFK

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MERRY CHRISTMAS HAPPY 2014!

Image: '12 days till Christmas!' http://www.flickr.com/photos/11738433@N03/4180968389 Found on flickrcc.net

Reporters in this magazine:

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Colegio San Gregorio. Aguilar de Campoo (Palencia) CPR Los Castaños. Pitres (Granada) IES Jaime Gil de Viedma. Nava de la Asunción (Segovia) IES La Zafra. Motril (Granada) IES Vicente Medina. Archena (Murcia)

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