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THE LITTLE BOOK OF JINGLE BELLS CAROL
Jingle Bells
JINGLE BELLS
Vocabulary Activities on “Rhyming Words” and “Some Vowel Sounds”
By
©EVRIDIKI DAKOS
Here you will find the worksheets I have prepared for my students of Zografyon High School,
- the Christmas Carol “Jingle Bells” – lyrics
- a worksheet for Vocabulary – specifically prepared for the rhyming words
- a matching activity with its answer key
- a spelling activity with its answer key
- a gap-filling activity of the carol for two different levels-Elementary and Pre-intermediate including its answer key
- an activity on rhyming words prompting to write tongue twisters including its answer key
- and two activities of vowel sounds (from the rhyming words) at two different levels- Elementary and Pre-intermediate
- the Christmas Carol “Jingle Bells” Video from Youtube
Please feel free to use them in you classes if you wish…
All pictures are from Google images though materials designed by me.
I would appreciate some feedback after your lessons.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Evridiki
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POLISH UP YOUR WORLD OF FANTASY
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YOUR SKILLS FOR
STORYTELLING
CLASSES
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An enjoyable and inspiring
ELT Teacher Training Workshop
of
Storytelling
suitable for all ages
Friday, 19th October, 2012
18.00 – 20.30
Taksim- Istanbul
50 TL
Deadline: Wednesday, 17th October, 2012
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The workshop will cover :
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The theory behind storytelling and its importance in ELT classes
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The world of fantasy
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A variety of techniques of how to exploit a story and deliver it in an effective way
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Ways of improving productive and receptive skills of students during storytelling
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A variety of ideas of material preparation
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Price includes:
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snacks and soft drinks
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certificate of attendance
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all the materials used during the session
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Registration has already started.
Please, make sure of your places by payment, till Wednesday, 17th October.
For registration and payment details please write to e.dakos11@gmail.com
Evridiki Dakos
EFL Author – EFL Teacher Trainer
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Sevgili Öğretmen Arkadaşlarım,
2012 – 2013 eğitim yılı
2. ve 3. sınıf İngilizce kitaplarınız için tasalanmayın,
profesyonel bir yayıncı ile birlikte
“Sizler” için “Ben” yazıyorum!
Nasıl olmalarını istersiniz?
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Would you like to suggest me a book name
and
your ideas with your needs?
e.dakos11@gmail.com
@Evridiki Dakos-2012
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I may be writing the books you need!
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The Alphabet Song
Altının değerinden sarraf olan anlarmış! 
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Don’t in short.
Dear friends,
I have prepared a page of jokes I found on internet. They are suitable for ELT classes and many of them make us rethink about the language use and grammar, and the power of the language itself! I find them very useful as good motivators inside and outside the class. They are very practical as they are short and clear.
I have also prepared some posters of them. You can have the actual size by clicking on each poster.
They can be used as
- ice-breakers
- warmers
- lead in activities
- stirring up activities
- fillers
- coolers
- classroom management aids
- supplement in lessons suitable with its grammar or vocabulary
- little prizes (written on colourful small papers)
- short role play activities
- a model for students to try writing their own jokes
- aids for the end of the school performance
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I will appreciate your feedback, here, on my blog, so we can start a conversation which will not disappear by the course of time as it happens in the social networks when I share my blog posts! Here our sharing; comments, ideas or questions will be recorded for future use and future visitors too! Blogs are like e-books. Why not record our sharing and write our common e-book?!
Hope you enjoy them in your classes.
Evridiki
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English Jokes For ELT Classes
“Dad, can you write in the dark?”
“I think so. What is it you want me to write?”
“Your name on this report card.”
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TEACHER: Where is your pencil, Harmon?
PUPIL: I ain’t got none.
TEACHER: How many times have I told you not to say that, Harmon? Now listen: I do not have a pencil. You do not have a pencil. They do not have a pencil. Now, do you understand?
PUPIL: Not really. What happened to all the pencils?
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TEACHER: Herman, name two pronouns.
PUPIL: Who, me?
TEACHER: Correct!
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TEACHER (to the class): Can anyone tell me the imperative of the verb “to go?” (No reply.)
TEACHER: Go, class, go!
CLASS: Thanks! See you tomorrow!
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PUPIL: I ain’t going.
TEACHER: That is not correct. Listen: I am not going. We are not going. You are not going. They are not going. Now do you understand?
PUPIL: Sure, teacher. Nobody ain’t going.
Ideas like diamonds
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TEACHER : Fred, your ideas are like diamonds.
FRED: You mean they’re so valuable?
TEACHER: No, I mean they’re so rare.
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TEACHER: Ellen, give me a sentence starting with “I.”
PUPIL: I is . . . .
TEACHER: No, Ellen. Always say “I am.”
PUPIL: All right. “I am the ninth letter of the alphabet.”
Beans
The teacher asked for sentences using the word “beans.”
“My father grows beans,” said a girl.
“My mother cooks beans,” said a boy.
Then a third child spoke up, “We’re all human beans,” he said.
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TEACHER: How many letters are there in the alphabet?
PUPIL: Eleven.
TEACHER: Eleven!
PUPIL: T H E A L P H A B E T = 11 !
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TEACHER: What does “coincidence” mean?
PUPIL: Funny, I was just going to ask you that.
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TEACHER: Your poem is the worst in the class. It’s not only ungrammatical, it’s rude and in bad taste. I’m going to send your father a note about it.
PUPIL: I don’t think that would help, teacher. He wrote it.
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TEACHER: Rudolph, describe a synonym.
PUPIL: A word you use when you can’t spell the other word.
Subordinate Clauses
TEACHER: What are subordinate clauses?
PUPIL: Santa’s helpers.
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How is an English teacher like a judge?
They both hand out sentences.
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Mrs. Johnson asked the class to write a composition about what they would do if they had a million dollars. Everyone except Fannie began to write. Fannie twiddled her thumbs and looked out the window.
When Mrs. Johnson collected the papers, Fannie’s sheet was blank. “Fannie,” said Mrs. Johnson, “everyone has written two pages or more, but you’ve done nothing. Why is that?”
“Nothing is what I’d do,” replied Fannie, “if I had a million dollars.”
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TEACHER: Wade, give me an example of a double negative.
WADE: I don’t know none.
TEACHER: Excellent!
Autobiography
What is an autobiography?
A car’s life story.
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TEACHER: Will you two please stop passing notes!
PUPIL: We’re not passing notes. We’re playing cards.
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TEACHER: For your homework, I asked you to spell “tomorrow” and you spelled “today. “
PUPIL: That’s because I did my homework yesterday.
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TEACHER: Can you spell “banana”?
PUPIL: Banana. B A N A N A N A N . . . . I can spell it, all right I just don’t know
where to stop.
The spelling of caterpillar
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TEACHER: Can you spell “caterpillar?”
PUPIL: How long do I have?
TEACHER: Why?
PUPIL: I want to wait until he changes into a butterfly. I can spell that.
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TEACHER: Use the word “hyphenated” in a sentence.
PUPIL: There used to be just a space between these two words but there ain’t no
more because the hyphen ate it.
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TEACHER: What do two negatives make?
PUPIL: A double exposure.
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TEACHER: Can you tell me one word that contains all six vowels?
PUPIL: Unquestionably.
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TEACHER: What happened when the English class started writing poetry?
PUPIL: Things went from bad to verse.
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TEACHER: What part of English are boxers best at?
PUPIL: Punch-uation.
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TEACHER: How often do English teachers talk about grammar?
PUPIL: Noun then.
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TEACHER: What is the most mathematical part of speech?
PUPIL: The add verb.
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TEACHER : I want you to tell me the longest sentence you can think of
Pupil : Life imprisonment !
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TEACHER : Name four members of the cat family
Pupil : Daddy cat, mummy cat and two kittens !
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TEACHER : What is further away, Australia or the Moon ?
Pupil : Australia, you can see the Moon at night !
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TEACHER : Ravi, can you find me Australia on the map please ?
Pupil :There it is
TEACHER : Now, Ravi, who discovered Australia ?
Pupil : I did !
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TEACHER :What kind of birds do you find in captivity?
Pupil : Jailbirds !
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TEACHER : What is the plural of mouse ?
Pupil :Mice
TEACHER : Good, now what’s the plural of baby ?
Pupil : Twins !
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TEACHER : What’s the longest word in the English language ?
Pupil : Smiles – because there is a mile between the first and last letters !
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TEACHER :: I despair, Ravi, how do you manage to get so many things wrong in a day ?
Pupil : Because I always get here early sir !
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TEACHER : What do we do with crude oil ?
Pupil : Teach it some manners !
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TEACHER : What is an island ?
Pupil : A piece of land surrounded by water except on one side.
TEACHER :On one side ?
Pupil : Yes, on top !
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TEACHER :Give me three reasons why the world is round
Pupil : Well my dad says so, my mum says so and you say so !
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TEACHER : What shape is the world in?
Pupil : Rotten !
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TEACHER : Why does you geography exam have a big zero over it.
Pupil : It’s not a zero, the teacher ran out of stars, so she gave me a moon instead !
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TEACHER :What’s you name ?
Class : Ravi
TEACHER : You should say “Sir”
Pupil : OK, Sir Ravi !
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Mother: What did you learn in school today
Son: How to write
Mother: What did you write?
Son: I don’t know, they haven’t taught us how to read yet!
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Teacher: Why are you late, Joseph?
Joseph: Because of a sign down the road.
Teacher: What does a sign have to do with your being late?
Joseph: The sign said, “School Ahead, Go Slow!”
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Teacher: Class, we will have only half days school this morning.
Class: Hooray
Teacher: We will have the other half this afternoon
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Student: The brain is a wonder full thing
Teacher: Why do you say that?
Student: Because it starts working the second you get up in the morning and never stops until you get asked a question in class!
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Teacher: Be sure that you go straight home
Student: I can’t, I live just round the corner!
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Reference:
http://www.khurrum.com/forum/index.php?topic=10726.0;wap2
http://www.indianchild.com/school_jokes1.htm
http://www.harryc.com/jokes16-teacher.htm
The Dance Of Duality – ED
Yin and Yang in ELT
I am writing an ELT Unit using Yin and Yang; a symbol I love a lot which means a lot to me!
- I will use it for two different subjects which I believe they will be very interesting for the learners, as the feedback I have received so far has been very positive both by ELT Teachers and learners.
- I am also planning to prepare an inspiring CLIL Lesson with it!
I am preparing and creating lots of different things…..
The only thing remaining is to find “Good Publishers” who would appreciate your work, your innovative ideas and your ability of creativity, as well as the energy and time you spend.
Evridiki
Yin and Yang in ELT By Evridiki Dakos
My Blog Has Been Selected As A Nominee For The Top ESL Blogs Award!
A few days ago I received a mail with a surprising content. It was saying my blog had been selected as a nominee for the eCollegeFinder and Language Magazine Top ESL Blogs Award!
If you think my blog with its ELT contents and News posts has been useful to you and deserves your vote please visit Top ESL Blogs Award Voting Page to cast your vote for “ELT Teacher Development”. http://blog.ecollegefinder.org/esl-blogs-award/
Below you will find the report of my interview by the eCollegeFinder and Language Magazine.
Thanks in advance!
Evridiki
My Interview by the eCollegeFinder and Language Magazine
This is the kind of blog that can be visited both by students and ELT/ESL educators. It is a platform where both groups can find a wide range of ELT matters; innovative teaching/learning ideas, pages from the author’s ELT Course Books, samples of lessons, lesson plans, worksheets and visuals including videos, the author’s students’ original works in class, their blog pages and their posts/homework on various subjects. The blog also includes news on ELT/ESL conferences, workshops, and webinars worldwide.
What is your greatest advice for ESL students or teachers?
For teachers:
- Inspire and get inspired. “The mediocre teacher tells, the good teacher explains, the superior teacher demonstrates, and the great teacher inspires.” – William Arthur Ward
Both for teachers and students:
- Teach and learn through experience. Involvement makes miracles. “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin
- Create a “PLN” (a Personal Learning Network) for continuous learning and sharing to spread the light of knowledge. You can start on a social network by following a person you admire for his/her knowledge. The rest will come automatically by observing who he/she follows and corresponds with.
ELT Teacher Development By Evridiki Dakos
TOGETHER WE CAN DO SO MUCH!
“Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.”
- Helen Keller
My Workshop Abstract:
The Magic Circles and The Light
In a room decorated with candles and lanterns and filled with sweet smells of incense, the presenter who has got more than 3000 friends in her circles will focus on the magic power of PLN in teacher development and will guide participants by giving a virtual tour on internet introducing them a few major circles where they will be initiated with a very warm ritual of welcome to receive and share the light also to build their own magic circles. At the end of the session, likewise at the beginning, the presenter will invite the participants to perform “a medieval initiation ritual” of spreading the light of knowledge, but this time to lock the opened circle!
Please make note that the rituals we are going to perform they do not belong to any group or religion. They are created and adapted by me for teaching purposes.
BY SHARING THE POWER TOUCHES ME AND TOUCHES YOU..!
I presented in Mavi Hall on Sunday 27th May, at 12.30-13.30.
It was a great session as I was lucky to have enthusiastic participants with spirit.
Together we felt the power and the importance of sharing!
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A few words from my workshop :
Travelling back in time to the Middle Ages we can meet some special groups called “Magic Circles” where their members were powerful people who were friendly and helped each other. After hundreds of years, today, those groups changed their names to “PLNs” and their members interact on line to spread the light hand in hand to enlighten the world; the world of ELT in our case.
PLN means Personal Learning Network. For me it means a Continuous Professional Development among many inspiring, motivating and very friendly people from all over the world. It is a kind of magic for me to sit in my room, in front of my computer or with my mobile or tablet in my hands on the way to school to have any source I need from people who most of them I have not met them in person.
With PLNs we continue the secret tradition of Middle Ages by supporting each other with our sharing on ELT, that’s why I call us “Magic Circles” and it is very interesting to see that GOOGLE + which is a new social network to call someone’s friends as circle(s). Sharing can be about conferences, lesson plans, methodologies, practical teaching ideas, materials, sources, even the problems we face in our schools and classrooms.
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THE LIGHT REPRESENTS THE KNOWLEDGE
There are many things to be said but I will limit it with a few more words and by sharing the interview I had at the conference.
Interview with Workshop Presenters; Evridiki Dakos on “The Magic Circles and the Light”
Q: What were the key words in your workshop?
Knowledge and the power of sharing
Light = Knowledge = power=freedom
Sharing= PLN (Personal Learning Network)
Slogan: By sharing, the power touches me and touches you!
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Q: Can you summarise the main idea of your workshop?
The main focus of my workshop was to emphasize the importance of the knowledge; of learning and sharing and show the way how knowledge can be obtained or spread with a click on our keyboard having a global effect through sharing on social netwoks. With that purpose I explained them what PLN is and I guided them to various circles of PLN! I also encouraged them to be a part of PLN, to built their own PLN and I invited them to my PLNs. By starting following me they could reach to the members of my circles.
To emphasize my message, in the mystic atmosphere we created with scented candles and incenses I invited them to perform two medieval rituals related to knowledge and PLN, which were a kind of activities of role play to make us feel the importance of knowledge and being a part of a group who is willing to learn and share!
We all left the workshop with a great enthusiasm, many of my participants entered my PLN on several social networks and the slogan of the workshop is still shared on social networks like Facebook and Twitter. Especially on Facebook it has become a kind of a greeting for three days. “By sharing, the power touches me and touches you!”
My final words are: BY SHARING THE POWER TOUCHES ME AND TOUCHES YOU IN EVERY SINGLE CORNER OF THE UNIVERSE, NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE AND WHERE YOU ARE! SO KEEP SPREADING THE LIGHT!!!!
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Q: Do you have any suggested links to the readers of the conference blog about your focus in your workshop?
For more information and help, I would like to suggest aPLaNet Ning which is The European aPLaNet project which shows language teachers how to use social networks professionally where I am planning to help as a mentor.
http://www.aplanet-project.eu/
Some other links I suggested are:
- Google+
- Ning
- My Blog
- My Group on Facebook – Teacher Development –ELT News Group From Turkey
- My page on Facebook
- My Page on Twitter
- My Page on Google+
- My Page on Linkedin
- My page on aPLaNet
- My channel on Youtube
OUR MOTTO AND WORKSHOP BADGES
Here is the question I asked on Facebook to my PLN before my session
A question on Facebook
Click for the page on Facebook
and here are a few answers:
For me PLN means a continuous professional development among wonderful enthusiastic educators and one of the greatest inspirations at my Teacher Training Career. It has become a part of my life. I owe so many things to my PLN, to the power of sharing, that is why I always say LONG LIVE PLN!!!
For me, it’s important to remember that the first word of a PLN is ‘personal’ – this means that the group of people you choose to connect to is unique to you, is chosen by you because of the value you think they can add to your learning and the value you think ou can add to theirs. The same is true of a PLE, which seems to have been forgotten by many people, but which came before the idea of a PLN: the tools you choose to use to connect to people, and how you choose to use them can influence the shape and form your learning takes, and so also deserve consideration.
For some of us, the “P” represents either “personal” or “professional,” but I second Graham’s idea that the individuals in one’s PLN represent a group of people with whom one connects for growth. In my mind, that is professional growth because my PLNs contribute to various facets of my professional life. I learn from these people every day. I hope I contribute at least some modicum of support, encouragement, teaching, insight to someone each day.
It’s possible to lurk in a PLN, but it’s impossible to take advantage of the richness of a PLN without being a part of that fabric. A PLN, I believe, is best when every member feels empowered to offer advice, constructive criticism, an Internet link, a blog post, a word of encouragement or congratulations. I can assure you that however much I might contribute to a PLN, I get so much more because of the power of the multiple voices in a PLN, especially a global PLN. We don’t have to agree on any given issue or how to approach any particular situation in a classroom or in research or whatever it may be, but we all tacitly agree to respectful conversation. Therefore, I think it is impossible not to grow in marvelously unexpected ways as a part of a PLN.
This is what I created for aPLaNet dear Evridiki mou, I hope it helps.
My PLN is my window to the world. It is a personal selection of people I admire and trust. It is a valuable global network where we share experiences, debate issues and ask for advice. It is a group where each member has an equal voice and we all learn from each other. It is the key to MY professional growth.
Vicky Saumell, you nailed it! I couldn’t have said it better.
PLN provides perspective, and reminds us that we teach English in a particular context – and there are many, many different contexts where English students have different desires and needs.
My PLN is like the aura that surrounds me. Probably the most colourful one:) The more I interact with it the shiniest it becomes:)
PLN is the best and easiest way to develop in your area of work.. Even you read or search a lot, PLN teaches more)) because it’s to communicate and reach people who have desire to share what they know@
Everytime I see this video (Try to do – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jByfWOLmjo&feature=player_embedded ) I think in my PLN. I mean, PNL is the capacity to see and to understand that we all are students of learning, no matter what level of “knowledge” you have. I do believe that everybody has something to learn from each other and the process of learning is continuous, a process that is never finished… and the best way to learn is to teach someone else. We sometimes are the “big squirrels” and sometimes the “little ones”.
A story about a big squirrel and a baby squirrel. Help me help another animal out! Pip needs to break out of his shell! www.facebook.com/FlickaChick Follow m…
PLN is my soul,it’s real communication and a way to share ideas with people who are responsible and really love what they do,people who can control the future of the world and can shape their students’minds and characters.
Sharing, communicating , collaborating!! These are only 3 of the very many things I use my PLN for….
Sorry this is late Eva, been travelling. I see 5 areas were PLN is active: Sharing – Articles, ICT tools, Videos, Websites
Support – the 24/7 virtual staff room (answers & help)
Activities – Webinars, Twitter chats, Conference etc
Communications – synchronous/asynchronious
Learning – informal professional learning opportunities
My Passionate/ Personal Learning Network is my fuel, support, guide, and mentorship as I tackle daily the very important mission of inspiring continuous learning. (sorry if it’s late)
Sharing, caring, communicating, collaborating with peers around the world, feeling constant support and love of people around your circles – this all is PLN and PLE. PLN includes lots of resources/tools you use to get and share your knowledge and ideas. Sorry for belated reply. I wish you a great success dearest Evridiki! Lots of love!
Thank you my friends for your sincere and inspiring comments!
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As I have mentioned above I was very lucky to have
wonderful participants at my session.
We had such a nice time together!
Here are a few photographs from our mystic session
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the great time we had.
For more photographs of the workshop please visit
THANK YOU MY PLN
FOR THE LIGHT YOU BRING INTO MY LIFE!!!
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A CLIL LESSON!
Here I share an article I have written about “Turkish Geckos” for CLIL Lessons in my ELT Classes!
Besides giving my students the opportunity to have a general knowledge on Turkish Geckos (a reptile they often meet in their houses or gardens) and providing an interesting lesson with a different vocabulary, I also wanted to refer to and focus on the importance of ‘eco-life’ which can be a very good subject to research, write or speak about.
I am planning to share the lesson plan, the worksheets and the activities at another post as soon as I have prepared them.
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“Please, DON’T KILL ME!!!
There is enough room to share the same planet !”
Hi, I am Hemidactylus Turcicus you can also call me Mediterranean House Gecko, but I am commonly referred to as the Turkish Gecko.
I have decided to write this post as I have realised I provoke fear to many of you for you do not know enough about me and this ignorance brings my death in the end.
You can read many scientific explanations about me but let me introduce myself and my thoughts as well as my feelings simply and briefly as these two words also reflect my simple and brief life (6-10 year) on the planet.
I am nocturnal, I sleep during the day and I am active at nights. I am also insectivorous in other words a type of carnivore with a diet that consists chiefly of insects and similar small creatures. An alternate term is entomophage. I rarely exceed 15 centimetres (5.9 in) in length. I have large, lidless eyes with elliptical pupils, and yellow- or tan-coloured skin with black spots, often with stripes on my tail.
To many of you I am very ugly and frightening and most of all I am “a reptile”, however, I am innocent, harmless and not poisonous! I am really very friendly and useful. I have a busy night work at your balconies, gardens and inside your houses. I clear them from any kind of insects without causing any threat for any species’ extinction.
Let me share the same world with you and sometimes your beautiful gardens and your houses! Together we can protect the echo life and provide a balance!
I know and it is so sure I cannot protect myself against your frightening strength and your great intelligence as I am a tiny, poor creature of the universe compared to you but I know and hope that you can be sensitive and wise enough to respect that whatever we are, whatever our duty is we all have the right to share the same planet!
By Evridiki Dakos on behalf defenceless Hemidactylus Turcicus
Please share this post to spread the message that there is enough room to share the same planet with all living beings.
For further reading:
Hemidactylus Turcicus – Mediterranean House Gecko
Common House Gecko
Do Geckos Eat Bugs in the House?
How to Care for a House Gecko
How to Get Rid of Geckos
Ecology
CLIL: A lesson framework -Steve Darn
My Turkish Gecko left his tail!
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Dear Friends,
I have started blogging with my students (11-18) at Kidblogs.
Are there any teachers who want to cooperate with us, to use the same blog as one class with their students..? Unlike to some other sites it is really very easy to blog with it… I can make a couple of Skype lessons if you like me to show you and your students how it works!
The cooperating-partner teachers will be able to manage their students’ accounts, posts and comments and they will have everything under their control.
I have got lots of ideas that I would like to share with my future blog partners. Together we can do wonderful things for our students and schools.
By Zografyon Students n Evridiki Dakos
Above you see a picture of our first blogs, as we are at the very beginning and my main aim is ‘fluency’ I haven’t checked all their mistakes yet for not discouraging them. I encouraged them to comment on each others posts and I did not even have to mention them to read their friends’ posts as they were SO much willing to do it.
However, I am not happy seeing mistakes especially on my school blog posts, I will ask them to check their posts themselves next year as their English will be better and will be able to recognize their mistakes! It is sure, as in most cases with students, they will not gain anything for they will not look at their mistakes if I correct them myself!
I have developed a simple correction way as much as the blogs’ features enable me. I am planning to apply it in two ways: (See pictures below or go to blog itself)
a. I will sometimes correct the mistakes myself to play a model of accuracy. Click for Example
b. Mostly, I will ask my students themselves to check their posts by focusing on the red re/marks. Click for Example
I am sure my students will be more careful, so more accurate if they share the same blog and correspond with other students on it.
So would you like to work with us? Or comment on our posts?
Evridiki Dakos
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Dear All,
Among many other things I have prepared recently for my students about “Restaurant Vocabulary and Dialogues” there is also the following spelling activity which covers 13 basic words related to restaurant also to everyday life at home and school.
I must confess preparing teaching material is a very tiring and time consuming process for that reason I wanted to share it with you in case somebody would like to use it and save time and energy as it happens to me when I find something prepared by somebody else.
This activity alone can be used
- as a warm up
- as a leading activity
- as a controlled activity
- for revising the vocabulary
- for revising alphabet letters
For a Vocabulary Lesson with a Sub-skill Practice -Writing/Speaking :
- Cut the photographs and copy them in bigger size to use them as flash cards to pre-teach vocabulary, in that way you will have vocabulary input. Follow the steps E C D W!
- Continue with the spelling activity which is a control activity.
- Add a freer personalized activity. (i.e. Preparing a poster or writing a shopping list for a new kitchen or discussing how to renew their own kitchen or talk about their favourite objects in kitchen etc.)
In that way or adapting it in a different way you may survive a lesson of 40 minutes I guess.
I would appreciate your feedback.
Enjoy!
Evridiki DAKOS
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