Today is the 25th birthday of Red Nose Day, so go on, do something funny for charity today!
Thinking big, making small changes | The Breathy Vowel
A very interesting post on a topic we should all think about:
http://breathyvowel.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/thinking-big-making-small-changes/#comment-928
Avoid verbal tics in Italian, English, Spanish and French and speak properly | 12speak!
ESL Holiday Lessons.com: World Sleep Day
A host of ideas for exploiting a listening text:
ESL Discussions: English Conversation Questions: Speaking Lesson Activities
An incredibly handy resource, whether you are running conversation classes or working on writing with your students.
Twitter Tips for Educators — THE Journal
Here is an interesting article on using Twitter as a teacher to access information to improve your professional practice:
http://thejournal.com/articles/2013/02/27/twitter-tips-for-educators.aspx?m=1
David Bradshaw on getting them speaking | Hancock McDonald ELT
Here’ a report on my talk, ‘Getting Them Speaking’, by Mark Hancock:
TESOL: Getting Them Speaking!
http://hancockmcdonald.com/blog/david-bradshaw-getting-them-speaking
15 Free Learning Sites
‘It can be hard to keep up with the ever-growing list of free educational sites out there, much less distinguish which ones will best meet your needs and help you learn skills you really need without shelling out big bucks.
New sites are always being launched and even those that have been on the scene for a while sometimes don’t garner enough attention to make it onto your radar, often getting overshadowed by more high-profile sites. As a result, even those who are in the ed tech loop can miss out on some seriously helpful free learning sites.
Here our content partners at Online College highlight just a few of these under-the-radar free learning sites, that run the gamut from providing full degree programs to simple job-skill training tools, offering a little something for every kind of learner…’
How Do You Say That? The 10 Coolest Pronunciation Tools for ESL Students
ESL students struggle with a lot of things.
Many of these they can practice with the use of self-study materials. They can do as many grammar exercises as they want; they can work with audio and video to improve listening; they can even join native English speakers in their free time for some extra speaking practice. But it is not likely they will correct your students’ pronunciation. Pronunciation is one of those things that only teachers correct – in the classroom. Friends and acquaintances will usually let pronunciation mistakes slide for the sake of keeping the conversation flowing.
So what can your students do in their self-study time to improve their pronunciation?
http://busyteacher.org/14864-10-coolest-pronunciation-tools-esl.html
Peer response in the writing process
Here’s a link to a copy of my presentation for today’s talk at the TESOL Spain Annual national Convention:
David's ESOL Blog 