Teaching pronunciation

A short post today, just to share a game available online for students to practise word stress (notice it's designed to be based on the vocabulary presented in each unit of their textbook):

Incredible English (OUP): Stress monster!


And here's another game, aimed at practising homonyms (two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings ): Word Frog>Homonyms


Try them and have fun (be brave and choose the highest levels of difficulty!!!) !

Do you think activities like these ones can actually contribute to our students' learning the pronunciation of English? Share your beliefs by posting a comment!

Gladys

Managing your class

Class discipline is probably a concern to most teachers (either novice or experienced) more often than any movie might suggest... In this enlightening article, Marti Schwartz shares his tips to succeed at managing our classes:

Teacher Magazine: Teaching Secrets: Creating Positive Classroom Management via kwout

(click on the link below the image to be re-directed to the full article)

Regards,
Gladys

What IS assessment?

Many people assume that assessment is simply another word for testing but in this article Adrian Tennant outlines its role as an important aspect of teaching and learning (click on the image below or on either of the links in it to be directed to the article itself) :

Onestopenglish | Assessment matters: What is assessment? via kwout

Another great resource from the kind guys at Macmillan's Onestopenglish!

Gladys

More on CLIL

Keith is a well-known expert on CLIL and the teaching of content through the medium of foreign languages, and this webinar looks at ways of teaching language within specific subjects such as science and geography.

Webinar_Archive_6 via kwout

For more resources on CLIL teaching, visit Onestopclil - Macmillan's comprehensive resource bank for CLIL teachers. You can start by getting familiar with what CLIL is>, and learning about its methodology and activities through the CLIL Teacher Magazine>. The CLIL Young Learners section> has plenty of engaging, flexible resources for children and teenagers, and the Image Gallery> and Animations> sections are rich with fantastic ways to make vocabulary and grammar learning more fun. CLIL extra> will help you navigate through all these new features.

Enjoy!
Gladys