Monday, 21 October 2013

Emotion related vocabulary

It happens very often that students, especially in oral practice, repeat simple adjectives when describing feelings (e.g. happy, sad, angry etc.), even though they know more. In intermediate, upper-intermediate and higher levels we need to enrich their vocabulary and provide them with many alternatives and always remind them and encourage them not to use the "easy" option, which is the first word coming to their mind. Here are some lists that I find useful.

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/words/gefuehle.htm
http://www.psychpage.com/learning/library/assess/feelings.html
http://www.myvocabulary.com/word-list/emotions-feelings-mood-vocabulary/
http://www.ryerson.ca/~jgingras/pdf/Feeling%20Vocabulary.pdf

Teaching Prepositions of place to beginners

Prepositions can be confusing sometimes, especially when it comes to very young learners. Here are some interactive online activities I use when I introduce prepositions of place to my students.
http://www.eslgamesplus.com/prepositions-of-place-esl-fun-game-online-grammar-practice/
http://eslgamesworld.com/members/games/ClassroomGames/Billionaire/Prepositions%20of%20Place%20Billionaire/

Tuesday, 28 May 2013

Animals - Useful links for young learners

I've been losing my sleep as I was trying to create a picture dictionary in a powerpoint format with animals' names and pictures.. as I was starting to lose my patience (because the list of animals my students had so eagerly provided was getting bigger and bigger - and it would approach infinity if I didn't prepair something immediately) I found two sites which have exactly what I was looking for! Enjoy!
http://eflnet.com/vocab/animal_vocabulary.php
http://esl-kids.com/flashcards/animals.html