Extreme Sports/ Extreme Adjectives

 Hi everyone,

Today I am sharing a lesson plan to talk about extreme sports and apply gradable and extreme adjectives and relative clauses. It's designed for B2 students or above.

I am trying to catch up with all the requests I have gotten in the last weeks. Google has changed its policies regarding sharing content and for the many messages I am getting, I understand that you are not being able to access the content. As I work out a way to make sure everyone can access all the content available in the blog, I will be granting you permission ASAP. It's great to see many people use the materials anyway, silver lining. 

 

I take advantage of this post to let you know that tomorrow I will be presenting at the re-evolution 2.0 convention. 

You can register for free here: 

Stay tuned,

Claudio

100.000 visits!

Hi everyone,

Wow! It's quite a number. This blog started as a course final project and it has exceeded my
expectations. It's really rewarding to read nice words from people all over the world about the materials, the tips, the ideas.

Somebody once asked me "why do you take so much time to make an effort and give away your work?". Because I believe in collaboration was my answer. I believe that we have the tools so as to work in a more collaborative fashion, and that way, enrich our practices and come up with better ideas. I have to add now, that it's worth it.

I'm sharing today a couple of activities to talk about culture shocks, perceptions, paradigms, methodology, ideals and or tradition and if you will, the very foundation of our teaching practices. Having recently talked about 21st century education, I decided to use two movies which take place in the educational context.

I hope you find it useful and as always, I await your feedback.

After generating ideas to defend one position or the other, have student's watch the following trailer and role play a discussion between the school authorities and Miss Watson.

Here's the worksheet

Stay tuned,

Claudio

Shopping, likes and dislikes

Hey everyone!

I must confess I'm really happy to see that the blog is about to reach 90 thousand visits. Thanks to all the people who take the time to send feedback and comments, it has been the blog´s main objective since the beginning.

Today I'm sharing an activity to work on opinions, likes and dislikes, gambits and adjectives. I hope you find it useful.

Here you have the videos:

And here's the worksheet.

I look forward to hearing from you, as usual.

Stay tuned,

Claudio

The secret life of pets

I'm sharing the first activity I presented last Friday at Abs Congress. It's a lesson plan for A1 students with different alternatives to work on grammar and lexis. The movie is called "the secret life of pets" and it revolves around pets and how they spend their days once the owners have left their homes.

I hope you find the activities useful.

Trailer Number one:

Here you have the activities:

Trailer number 2:

Here's the worksheet.

Stay tuned,

Claudio