This lesson was recorded in a university linguistics session. The trainer is preparing the learners for a linguistics exam. Since the learners are also pre-service primary and secondary school teachers;the trainer also wants to expose them to learning technologies like the IWB. This exercise helps the learners revise the different word classes and emphazises that … Continued
This lesson was recorded in a university linguistics session. The trainer is preparing the learners for a linguistics exam. Since the learners are also pre-service primary and secondary school teachers;the trainer also wants to expose them to learning technologies like the IWB. The learners revised the use of prefixes and suffixes to change a word … Continued
This video is from an EFL class focusing on the classification of sentence connectors. Instruction in this video clip focuses on the proper use of sentence connectors as discourse markers. The teacher asks learners to gather the given markers in three separate groups.
Learners in this mixed level primary class are reviewing animal vocabulary in a whole-class group at the IWB. They take turns to drag a picture of an animal from the magic box. The teacher helps them to recall and pronounce the animal words;and the learner who can recall the correct English term is allowed to … Continued
Learners in this mixed level primary class are reviewing animal vocabulary in a whole-class group at the IWB. They take turns to erase white ink covering photos of different animals. One learner reveals part of the picture with the eraser;while the others watch and guess. The teacher comments on the learners’ guesses and translates where … Continued
In this task, two remote secondary classrooms, one in Germany and one in France engage in a video-conferencing session, using the IWB, camera and microphones. The teachers of both classes, after an in-class discussion, decided that the topic of the videoconferencing sessions would be ‘phubbing,’ . This is a relatively new concept in the English … Continued
In this task, two remote classrooms engage in an online communication using Skype as a platform to enable real-time exchange. The learners in the German class are 7-8 years old and it is their first year of learning English as a foreign language. In the pre-task, the teacher used the IWB to set the context … Continued
In this task, the learners created a short animated scene using the Puppet Pals App to describe a funny monster. In the pre-task phase, the teacher played a series of games with the learners, helping them recall the vocabulary related to numbers, colours and body parts (Heads Down, Simon Says, What’s Missing, and so on). … Continued
In this task, learners created short video clips describing the content of their school bags. The primary motivation was to share these videos later on with a remote class in France. With the help of their teacher, the learners decided to use the iMovie app since it is easy to use and it enables the … Continued
In this task, a group of primary school learners in Germany create ebooks and share them with primary school learners in Wales. In the pre-task phase, the teacher set the context by giving more information about the geographical position of Wales and some information about the school. Additionally, a model ebook was shared with the … Continued