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Title: Find Clichés To Show Your English Students with Cliché Finder
Body: Normally we try to avoid clichés, but their use can befuddle English language learners. On Cliché Finder you can enter a term (for example, “dog”) and the program will call up matching clichés from its database of over 3300 expressions that you can discuss with your students: you could talk a dog off a meat wagon let a sleeping dog lie it's a dog eat dog world every dog has its day work like a dog Cliché Finder is available at http://www.westegg.com/cliché
Source: Cliché Finder
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Title: Teaching and Practicing Numbers
Body: Teachers on FLTEACH have been sharing their ideas for teaching and practicing numbers. Here are some of them: --- Here are several things I do to teach numbers in Chinese: 1. Toss a yarn ball around a small circle; each time you catch it, you have to say the subsequent number. In larger classes, we race. I set the timer for 2 min. and the group that gets to the highest number wins. 2. When they get good at that, start counting by 2s, 3s, etc., backwards... 3. Don't just add the dice, multiply them. 4. Use more dice to add and/ or multiply. 5. Play the 24 game; teach the words for +, -, x, /, and = to go with it. [editor’s note: see explanation at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_Game] 6. For the lower numbers, I also have them play Go Fish, teaching them the vocabulary to go with it. 7. Play any card game involving numbers, essentially. 8. Play Buzz/ Bizz Buzz: in a cirlce (more than one if your class is big). Set the multiple for "buzz" (i.e. 3). Each person says 1 number: 1, 2, "buzz" whenever you get to a multiple of 3. Bizz is for numbers that have a 3 in them, but aren't multiples of 3 (i.e. 13). 9. Play any elementary math game. 10. If you have a Smartboard/ Promethean board, use the dice roller function, increasing the # of dice as they get better, and use other math operations. Add to it by having them use those numbers as repetitions of exercises (i.e. jumping jacks, jumps from side to side, etc.). 11. Get an inflatable ball/ cube with multiplication facts written on it (or make one yourself). Toss it around- when you catch it, you have to say the fact and answer on which your right thumb landed. B. Hsu-Miller. Re: [FLTEACH] Teaching numbers. FLTEACH listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 27 Oct 2011). --- Chris Biffle has a game called Superspeed Numbers; you can download the instructions from http://www.hemetusd.k12.ca.us/edserv/cur_inst/elem_resource/strat/pt/pt_ss_num.pdf --- An idea that I obtained from the [FLTEACH] archives is to white-out all the numbers of a connect the dots picture, put numbers I want them to practice. On another sheet of paper, put the answer key or the numbers in order to make the picture. Then it becomes a paired activity. One student reads the numbers out loud to another student who connect the dots to make the picture. Another activity my kids love to play is Manotazo. It is a game played in Mexico and South America by children. My instructions are below: I use 1-15, but really you could have them count by tens. 1. Obtain playing cards 2. Deal an even number of cards to each player, there shouldn’t be any remaining. Players do not look at the cards. 3. The person to the right of the dealer begins by placing one card face up and saying “uno” 4. The next person lays down a card and says “dos” and third does the same saying “tres” 5. When the number of the card matches the number said, all the players must hit the pile of cards, the last person that hits the cards must take all of the pile. 6. When you no longer have any cards, you must continue playing by paying attention until the next “hit”. Winner is declared by the player who runs out of cards. Villegas, C. Re: [FLTEACH] Teaching numbers. FLTEACH listserv (FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU, 26 Oct 2011). --- Here are two activities specifically for French: http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/taskmagic/attachments/folder/1671987405/item/list?mode=list&order=ordinal&start=1&count=20&dir=asc http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/taskmagic/attachments/folder/1242881421/item/list?mode=list&order=ordinal&start=1&count=20&dir=asc --- An old FLTEACH post from 2003 describes the game “99.” You can read a description of it in the FLTEACH archives: http://listserv.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0304&L=FLTEACH&P=R20534 --- We’ll feature more ideas for working with numbers in next week’s InterCom.
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Title: Teaching and Learning Resources for the Global Classroom
Body: From http://www.ascd.org/publications/newsletters/education-update/nov11/vol53/num11/Teaching-and-Learning-Resources-for-the-Global-Classroom.aspx Teaching and Learning Resources for the Global Classroom Willona M. Sloan November 2011 Educators don't have to break the bank to provide students with access to world-class lessons about global issues, or connect with learners and teachers in other countries. Free software like Skype allows students to participate in face-to-face language lessons; the Smithsonian offers free videos, lectures, and online exhibitions; and National Geographic's website has a wealth of multimedia resources designed to take students on exciting adventures. If you want to knock down your classroom's walls and free yourself of geographical boundaries, check out these teaching and learning resources: http://www.ascd.org/publications/newsletters/education-update/nov11/vol53/num11/Teaching-and-Learning-Resources-for-the-Global-Classroom.aspx
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Title: Activities for Teaching Descriptions
Body: From http://evasimkesyan.edublogs.org Read an English teacher’s ideas for activities you can use when students are learning to describe people, things, and events at http://evasimkesyan.edublogs.org/2011/10/17/describe
Source: A Journey in TEFL Blog
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Title: Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers Listserv
Body: Colorado language teachers, you can keep up with the activities of your state organization on their listserv. Colorado Congress of Foreign Language Teachers, Inc., is organized for the purpose of the advancement of the study and teaching of foreign languages in the schools, colleges and universities of the State of Colorado. CCFLT strives: • to provide high quality professional growth opportunites for its members; • to secure broad membership among foreign language teachers in Colorado; • to advance the interests and status of foreign language study; and • to network with members and other professionals at local and global levels. Subscribe to the listserv at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CCFLT The CCFLT website is available at http://www.ccflt.org
Source: Yahoo!
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Title: The November 2011 edition of The International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching
Body: The November 2011 edition of The International Journal of Foreign Language Teaching is available for download at http://www.tprstories.com/ijflt In this issue: -Integrating One Hour of In-School Weekly SSR: Effects on Proficiency and Spelling by Ken Smith -Impressive Gains on the TOEIC after One Year of Comprehensible Input, with no Output or Grammar Study by Beniko Mason -Is Phonemic Awareness Training Necessary in Second Language Literacy Development? Is it Even Useful? by Stephen Krashen & Ashley Hastings -Read More of the Book, Understand More of the Movie by Kyung-Sook Cho -Can We Make English Audio-books More Comprehensible for Second Language Acquirers? by Kyung-Sook Cho -Multistory Construction by Carol Gaab -How well do junior high TPRS German students do on the AATG level 2 exam? Answer: Not bad! by Michael Miller -The Monitor Model and Me by Alex Poole A Personal Journey into English Through Reading by Leonie Overbeek
Source: IJFLT
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Title: November 2011 Issue of NCLRC Newsletter
Body: From http://www.nclrc.org The November 2011 issue of the National Capital Resource Center’s newsletter is available online at http://www.nclrc.org/newsletter.html The theme for this month’s newsletter is Communication. The Guest Feature Author, Peggy Boyles, shares exciting and fun ways to engage students of all levels in communication. YANA suggests ways to help students maintain control of their communication efforts. Tech4Teachers is a lesson in how to use Google Forms and Google Voice to communicate with our students. A communication activity, a rubric, and tips for evaluating come from CAL. Read the full newsletter at http://www.nclrc.org/newsletter.html
Source: NCLRC
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Title: Call for Papers: 5th International Turkish Language Teaching Conference
Body: From http://www.uteo2012.info The 5th International Turkish Language Teaching Conference will take place July 5-6, 2012, in Mersin, Turkey The Organizing Committee welcomes submissions of original studies in topics concerning aspects of Turkish Language Teaching. The abstract submission deadline is January 30, 2012. View the full call for papers at http://www.uteo2012.info
Source: International Turkish Language Teaching Conference
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Title: Call for Papers: International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching
Body: From http://linguistlist.org/issues/22/22-4533.html The Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT) would like to invite you to consider submitting a manuscript for inclusion in this scholarly journal. Topics to be discussed in this journal include (but are not limited to) the following: - CALL and second language acquisition - Computer games in language learning and teaching - Corpora - Courseware design - Distance language education - Evaluation of CALL program - Intelligence in CALL - Language testing in CALL environments - Mobile learning and teaching - Monitoring and assessment in online collaborative learning - Multimedia language learning and teaching - Research methodology in CALL - Social networking in language learning and teaching - Software programs for language learning and teaching - Teacher education - Teaching approaches in the CALL context Call Deadline: 01-Feb-2012 View the full call for papers at http://linguistlist.org/issues/22/22-4533.html
Source: LINGUIST List
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Title: Call for Papers: The 15th International CALL Research Conference
Body: From http://www.cs.pu.edu.tw/~2012call The editor, associate editors and editorial board of Computer Assisted Language Learning: an International Journal (Taylor and Francis) extend a cordial invitation to attend the XVth International CALL Research Conference at Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan, May 25-27, 2012. The series of biennial conferences was launched at Exeter University by Keith Cameron, former editor and now honorary editor. Jozef Colpaert took over the editorship in 2002, and has, since then, organized five ‘Antwerp CALL Conferences’. Given the nature and scope of the CALL Journal (interdisciplinary and intercontinental), this year the organizers are embarking on a new path to expanding the conference venues beyond western Europe. Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 30, 2011. For full details go to http://www.cs.pu.edu.tw/~2012call
Source: Providence University, Taichung, Taiwan
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