Infonews n°320 from 16/12/2007
Christmas on BBC Learning English
Christmas on le Café Pédagogique
Advent Calendars
Other special days in December
Laurence Bernard's teaching unit
A selection of the best sites
Essay writing
Tips about what resolutions to take
List of resolutions
Setting your goals
Another lesson plan
Christmas on BBC Learning English
Here is the page for Christmas, with a calendar
to download, an advent calendar, a pantomime and several other gifts.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1144_xmas07/
Christmas on le Café Pédagogique
You will find there the resources from Infonews
and some more. A page to bookmark!
http://www.cafepedagogique.net/lemensuel/lenseignant/languesvivantes/anglais/Pages/2007/88_anglais_Christmas.aspx
Advent Calendars
Looking for an advent calendar? here are several
nice, interactive ones, for all levels.
http://www.cafepedagogique.net/lemensuel/lenseignant/languesvivantes/anglais/Pages/2007/88_anglais_AdventCalendars.aspx
Other special days in December
Saint Lucie, Saint Nicolas, hannukah, Kwanzaa...
Here are some links to help your students
discover that Christmas doesn't mean Christmas for everybody.
http://www.cafepedagogique.net/lemensuel/lenseignant/languesvivantes/anglais/Pages/2007/88_anglais_fetesend%C3%A9cembre.aspx
Laurence Bernard's teaching unit
Laurence Bernard, our colleague from Martinique,
has created this unit about New year's
resolutions for lower intermediate students, but
it can easily be adapted to other levels. It's a
very comprehensive work, with a guide to write a
well built text using interesting sources as
example : Bridget Jones diary, several a cartoons
and a short video. I used it last year with my
students and they managed to write longer and more structured texts as before.
http://cms.ac-martinique.fr/discipline/anglais/file/resolutions_sequence.pdf
If you wish to work from other sources, here are some:
A selection of the best sites
As usual, our colleague Michèle Henry has
selected the sites she find the most useful
especially with beginners and intermediate
students. Discover them, and especially the chart of the resolutions.
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/newyear.htm#resol
http://www.hiaspire.com/newyear/images/chart_bigResolutions0702.gif
Essay writing
Laurence Bernard recommends this lesson plan to
encourage students to write and essay with the future and link words:
http://perso.orange.fr/absolutenglish-972/notes/resolutions/page1.htm
Here is another lesson plan of the same type,
create by a primary school teacher in the US
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/new-years-day/lesson-plan/4136.html?detoured=1
She also recommends this video : "Don't be a
Gary" - resolve": great fun! easy to understand (from YouTube)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9wF5LunEmo
Tips about what resolutions to take
Laurence Bernard also recommends those videos
(they are better seen in a small screen). There
is no script, the picture is very bad and just
shows the people who talk, the sound is not very
good either but the tips are really interesting.
Maybe we could use this document to train your
students to understand a message globally.
http://138.26.96.3/Joshklapow/VIDEO-DIALUP/newyearsresdialup.wmv
http://138.26.96.3/Joshklapow/VIDEO-DIALUP/hhstickingwithresolutiondialup.wmv
And here is are other texts with tips and advices
http://www.ehow.com/how_12076_keep-new-years.html
http://www.washington.edu/newsroom/news/1997archive/12-97archive/k122397.html
http://www.mygoals.com/about/NewYearsTips.html
List of resolutions
A very easy list of resolutions, and the children
vote for the one which is most important to them.
You can use them even with beginners. After the
vote, the students can access a funny flash
interactive site which shows them a list of fun resolutions.
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/pollzone/white/0,6405,403250,00.html
Setting your goals
About.com offers a more complete (and complex)
approach, with a useful reflection for educators
on how to maintain motivation and how to help the
students set realistic goals and meet them.
http://7-12educators.about.com/library/weekly/aa121400a.htm
Don't miss the worksheets in the related
resources, with especially this one about writing
specific goals which helps students setting sub
goals or intermediate steps to go from general to specific goals
http://7-12educators.about.com/blgoalspecific.htm
Another lesson plan
A lesson plan with the history of the
resolutions, and how to keep them. Created for
9th grader, that is the last year of primary
school in the US, this lesson plan can be used with intermediate ESL students.
http://www.developingteachers.com/plans/nyrlp.htm#dictation
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