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LET'S PLAY AND REVISE VOCABULARY: "GIVE ME FIVE!"

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  HELLO! HELLO!   How are you doing? It's the countdown!  The end of the school year is always stressful and the temperature isn't helping at all   But... teachers are here to help    Two days ago @teach.and.learn.english shared a post about REVISION GAMES (visit her account to read it) on Instagram and I decided to create a new version of the game called "GIVE ME FIVE"  . Today 3rd graders have played this game and you can't imagine how much they have loved it!  How to play GIVE ME FIVE   I have created a wheel with the topics I wanted my students to revise. I have used the app "Wheel of names" to create the wheel (Click on the image to play "Give me five"  I have divided the students in 5 groups and I have given each group a sheet of paper, a pencil and a rubber  It's time to spin the wheel! They have had 1 minute to write 5 words about that topic. I have used the app online-stopwatch to control the time  The speake...

USING MEMORY GAMES IN YOUR ENGLISH AND/OR CLIL CLASS

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 HELLO, HELLO! Some days ago I told you about some of my life hacks as a teacher, did you read the post? It is available in this blog. If you want to read it, click here    Creating all our resources is time-consuming, so why not investing some money in ready-to-use games?  Some weeks ago I found these memories in the supermarket Aldi . They are perfect for playing in small groups or to use them in learning stations. (click on the image to see the memory games)  Apart from playing a memory game you can also plan other activities such as classifying in categories, finding the odd one, finding out which card is missing... The one about animals also includes facts about the animals, so these cards can also be used for a reading activity. But... why using memories in your classes?  Playing memory games improves attention, concentration and focus.  Memory games improve visual recognition.  You need short-term memory to play memory games, so this brain ...

My first Break Out Edu

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BREAK OUT EDU During the lockdown I created my first Break Out Edu with  Genial.ly . My students loved it and I received lots of messages saying how much fun they had had with the Break Out Edu. Here you have the Break Out Edu entitled "The vaccine". My students had to discover where the vaccine was. They could revise concepts they had already learned at school. Click on the photo to access the Break Out Edu ↓↓↓ Eva๐Ÿ’–

IV JORNADA DE CULTURA DIGITAL

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First Friday of my summer holidays and yes, here I am posting ๐Ÿ˜… Today I want to share with you my experience as a speaker at "IV Jornada de Cultura Digital", which this year had to held on 18th May online due to the COVID19 crisis. It was my first time participating in this event and I'm very glad to have been able to share with other colleagues my favourite digital tools. I invite you to watch the webinar: Eva๐Ÿ’–