I decided to let my students organize their own groups because they would make a project about their shared knowledge, so this way they can have more common things to talk about. Stages: The topic chosen is “ Our Families ", since it matches the speaking and writing topic of the current unit I’m covering in my 2nd ESO class. Students are grouped freely. We watch the introductory presentation on Genially. Notice there is a rubric on the last page of the presentation, where different aspects are covered (pronunciation, grammar and vocab points, etc). There is also a final section where they will ask their classmates about how much they understood:  https://view.genial.ly/662e1c5fa5b558001597823d/presentation-project-our-families Students start working on their projects, with computers in class, being monitored by myself. They will show me their drafts and I will help them with necessary corrections. After 2-3 days of work, students present their projects, and they are finally assess

 First of all, I want to point out that the Pixton tool is no longer for free use anymore. I mean, you can design your comic or graphic novel, but you'll never have the chance to publish, share or export your piece of work, not even from the first day. So instead of creating a link, I've just taken three different screenshots, then pasted them together with KolourPaint, and finally generated a PNG file that I am uploading here. I'm sorry if the quality is not the best, but I think it's ok given the circumstances. About the use of the tool in class: I found it very fun to use in my 2nd ESO group, that's for starters. The class starting brainstorming very different, disconnected ideas, so I finally offered myself to be the main character of their fictional work. After that, bit a bit the plot was getting into shape, and finally we came up with this kind of mystery, humour piece that we all enjoyed making. 

Hi students! Today we'll work with a video from the Harry Potter series . You will watch the video and try to answer the questions that appear after every pause. I chose this video because the Harry Potter saga has got a lot of followers of all ages. The language pace is slow and the quality of the pronunciation is outstanding. I've tried to come up with a variety of questions that have to do with: Pronunciation Reading Guessing from context As pre-task, the class gave their opinion about Harry Potter and extra questions were thrown about magic, snakes and museums. During the activity, the video was played and students answered the given questions accordingly. I didn't particularly use a flipping focus of the activity, but rather the students discussed the video and gave their opinion about it: Whether they liked it or not, if they chose Harry's or the other boy's side, if they like snakes, their opinion about museums... Due to a matter of time, I would have liked t

Using my own personal music preference, I decided to bring my 2nd Bachillerato students the following text called "A History of the Beatles", which you can check at this website link . As it can be seen, the text is of a relative length, and it is written mainly in the past tense, with no ESL adaptation but considerably easy to read and understand. Learning objectives: Understand a text written in plain, real English Work in pairs and take decisions together Use tools online (TimeToast, picture hunting) Summarise key information Scan for particular bits of information (dates) After I presented the TimeToast tool in class, I asked my students to work in pairs, and decisions were genuinely taken by the members of each pair, with little or no influence from the teacher himself. I specifically asked them to find any instance of years or dates, and try to put it down on the Timeline, with a brief text written in the past tense.  I also asked them to accompany each event from a pic

  One of the things that differentiate people is whether they like reading or they do not. This matter can provoke further reflections too. For instance, I consider myself to be a considerably good reader but every now and then I find myself not reading anything (for pleasure) for months, so sometimes it is not an A versus B discussion, but rather, gray tones arise too. In the pictures there are different instances of reading material as well as several reading goals or spaces: A library, a family situation, a home of the elder, the park, the classroom... Reading the news has nothing to do with reading a textbook or your favourite author's last novel. So one must look for different sources of motivation depending on what reading material is at stake. Children are told what to read so they probably won't be having so much fun, whereas most adults in the pictures have decided their on their own piece of reading so they should be enjoying it. Mostly, when I read in Spanish for ple

Hi fellas! Today we will have a look on Phrasal Verbs, our old friends! Here you have a few links with videos, resources and exercises with which you can practise! The 50 Important Phrasal Verbs in English  (video) Complete phrasal verb  list Game at "Games to Learn English" I hope you enjoy them!