Search found 5 matches

by cathjean
Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:48 pm
Forum: Activities and Games
Topic: Quick writing activity
Replies: 1
Views: 3816

Quick writing activity

Hello everyone ! My associated teacher and I came up with an activity to have our secondary 5 students write faster. The thing is, we want more ! Here is the activity : first you post a sentence on the board. Must be a funny sentence because if not they won't go for it ! Then -if the are in rows you...
by cathjean
Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:38 pm
Forum: Texts
Topic: Texts - Digital Texts
Replies: 16
Views: 235868

I agree with all of you, we can really find more and more things on internet that ca n be relevant for our students. Digital books are simply awesome. We can play with it and even invent some ourselves with power point. This is what I love about ICT in a classroom, we can make our own handouts our o...
by cathjean
Thu Feb 17, 2011 10:42 pm
Forum: Secondary School Education
Topic: How do you teach grammar in class?
Replies: 4
Views: 8255

Grammar was basically the thing I was the most afraid to teach in high school. But I tried with my secondary 5 students. I did it so that it was funny and I included some other teachers they know. The answers were meant to be funny and they had to invent new sentences and turn those passive sentence...
by cathjean
Thu Feb 17, 2011 10:33 pm
Forum: Intensive English Programs
Topic: How do you choose English Camp teaching materials?
Replies: 4
Views: 9588

Hello, I've worked in an english camp last summer. The material that we used was basically games. It's as simple as that. Little games some anglophones parents play with their children do the work quite well. For young children it's really important to have a guide line. What I mean is that you need...
by cathjean
Thu Feb 17, 2011 10:10 pm
Forum: Bilingual Education
Topic: english movie can help the students improve their english?
Replies: 18
Views: 28377

MOvies

I agree that students can learn while watching movies. I think students need to be interrested in what they are doing in order to learn. If they like watching movies it can only be a good way for them to enjoy english. It's a good start.Once they can enjoy hearing people speaking english they will w...