Wordle

What is wordle?

"Wordle" is a tool for creating clouds of words from text that we provide. These clouds give greater size to words that appear more frequently in the source text. We can modify our clouds with different layouts, color schemes and fonts. We can freely use the images created with Wordle, even print them or save them in our own computer.  

Make your own wordle with different monuments from all over the world. 

This wordle is an example: 

Which ingredients would you use to make your own menu?

First dish

Second dish

Dessert

A questionnaire about ICTs: Educational videogames and simulators for learning English

This questionnaire is made to see if students think that they can learn English with videogames and what habits do they have. 
Instructions: Please fill this questionnaire. We will comment on your habits next week. 

Irregular Verbs

This video is about irregular verbs:

• It helps to get the pronunciation.
• Fun.

Homework: 

Listen and use 5 of these verbs in different sentences:
E.g.: I met my friend yesterday.

Total Physical Response (TPR)

It is a method created by James J. Asher in 1965.

He is a psychologist and made his first experiment with Japanese in 1965 when he taught English.

A metaphor of this method would be: "The instructor is the director of the stage play in which the students are the actors".

He published a book in 1977 called: Learning a Language Through Actions. His method is based upon the assumption that the second language should be learned as the first language.

So, if our parents made some speech, we could follow by a physical response.

With this method, we have to use the right hemisphere of the brain and engage students without any stress for them.

In this prezi, we see a presentation about TPR and some activities for teachers that some of my classmates and I did for a subject.

http://prezi.com/jw5nu-3gnrwb/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

After using this method, you can reflect in the comment section if this method works or not in your own class.

Using Voki

What is Voki?

Voki is an outstanding tool that allows us to make speaking characters and then we can use it in our own blogs and webpages. They are good since they engage students, introduce technology in the classroom and enhances the learning of a second language.

Take a look at: http://www.voki.com/

Homework: 

• Create your own Voki.

Instructions: 

• Summarise what we have seen in class today (vocabulary or grammar).
• Go through different accents and use the US accent for one Voki.
• Make another Voki with your own voice.
• Use different characters and backgrounds.

Evaluation

We will assess the Voki activity with:

• 25 %: Voki with a US accent.
• 25 %: Voki with your own voice.
• 15 %: Use of different characters.
• 15 %: Use of different backgrounds. 
• 20 %: Summarising properly the vocabulary or grammar.

You have one of my examples here:

Hope you enjoy the activity!