Great website

Just a short post today to share a really fun website - with funny videos.
My favourite is this dog one ..made me laugh!
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“With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.” Abraham Lincoln

Quick activity to get students thinking and predicting:

• In pairs sts think of the best excuses.
• Do a role play to act out the excuses focussing on pronunciation and intonation
• Show first part of the clip and sts predict what is happening next - think of ideas why an excuse might be necessary then?
• Repeat for each section of the clip until the end.
• Predict what happens after he gets put in the box.
• Watch and check if they were right

"Accent your positive and delete your negative" Donna Karan

Accents and pronunciation can make or break communication in any language. What happens to you when speaking another language and you mispronounce something? Many times you cannot be understood, which can lead to you feeling self conscious or embarrassed. For our students, pronunciation is the key to success (at least in my opinion).
Here's an activity you can try with higher levels is:

1. Brainstorm different accents around the world.
2. Discuss the differences beween them - see how much your students know (or don't)
3. Next you could do one of two things:

• Show the video below and see how many of the 21 accents the students can hear OR
• go to www.voxopop.com and get some peers to record a 2 second piece (for example everyone say "Good morning, today it's sunny").
• After listening and brainstorming ideas the students could then record their answers onto voxopop, saying something like; "speaker one, we think you are from Australia".
• After, ask you colleagues to go back to voxopop and reply to the students, saying something like "Hi, I'm Anna, speaker one and I'm from Canada".

After listening, and comparing their answers, to the reality the class can then focus on the different intonations and stresses of different accents.

Benefits of this? Well, in real life the learners are going to be exposed to lots of different types of English and they should be aware of different accents. For higher levels, this is always a factor impeding learning.

Welcome

This blog is to share ideas for teaching English with technology. Until last year, I was teaching the "old fashioned" way, using technology as a fancy resource. Over the past 18 months, I have developed and incorporated technology into all my classes. The results have been amazing. The students are contributing more, their level is increaing more rapidly and the motivation levels have increased.
My aim with this blog is to share some of the ideas I've had to try to help you incorporate more ICT in your class.
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