Useful+Web+2.0+Tools

Comic created by Janet with [|Lego City Comic Builder] =This page can be used by the whole group. You can add teaching ideas, and also add tools that you come across and would like to share.= =Just click on the "Edit" tab at the top of the page, add your creation or link, and then press "Save".=

= DVOLVER MOVIE MAKER =

The class created a fun movie to practise some idioms and expressions we had studied earlier.
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You can view this step by step video tutorial on how to use Dvolver [|here.]

= WISHES - Exploiting Images = =Do you know where this building is? Can you complete the statue's wish???=



Possible answers:
I wish......I could leave! If only.......I could say something to the tourists! If only...... I could say what I feel

Further practice with mixed wishes: If only.......those people would stop shouting! I wish.... people below would stop taking all those photos! I wish..... I hadn't been put here! =What is this statue below thinking? The Iron Man statue was created by [|Antony Gormley]. You can read all about how the statue was placed on the roof of Blackwell's Art and Poster shop in Broad Street in 2009 [|here.].= =You can view Antony Gormley's website which includes more of his famous statues [|here.]=



= Grammatical Comics using writecomics.com =

** Play noughts and crosses with idioms you have studied! **


= FUN PRE READING ACTIVITY: SCRUNCHED UP NEWSPAPER ARTICLE = Usually the summaries are pretty accurate!!
 * 1) Scrunch up into a ball shape an article (containing relevant idioms you have taught) that you want your students to read. Hand the scrunched up ball out to each group of students.
 * 2) Allow students a few minutes to hold the ball and turn it around to see what clues there are about the content of the article.
 * 3) Ask students to summarise the article / write a brief summary.
 * 4) Listen to the different variations of the summary open class.
 * 5) Students unscrunch the newspaper to reveal the whole article.
 * 6) Students read the article and check to see if the summaries match the actual content.

Below you can see members of the class having fun unravelling the content of the article.



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This is[| a talking cat]with www.fodey.com
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The class learned how to create an e-book using [|Bookr]. The topic we chose to write about was Oxford.
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Janet showed us a link to Storybird, a beautiful picture-book creating site. You can learn how to create one [|here.]
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Here is a Storybird example created by her that you can show and read to your pupils!
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