Learning English Together

Postcards

2009-08-19T12:33:00.008-03:00

Hello people!!!!!

Here I'm posting some postcards from my students. Hope you like them.

Juan Pablo's postcard

Daniela's postcard

Brunela's postcard

Ignacio's postcard

Sketch

2009-07-01T12:48:00.002-03:00

Today I'm sharing with you a sketch we've made with a group of students. We had a really good time and we laughed a lot and they felt so free and happy doing this activity. The students are: Grisel, Mauro, Leandro and Bruno.

Let's write together

2009-06-27T11:40:00.001-03:00

2009-06-26T11:55:00.005-03:00

Hello everybody!!!! I'm back here posting a nice job we've made with my students. They wrote their own conversation "First day at school" in which they pretend to be at school in their first day after the summer holidays and they tell each other what they did during that period. Once they've finished writing the conversation I recorded them with my mobile phone and this is the result:

P.S.: Believe me that we had great fun doing this activity.

Students' Corner

2009-06-19T21:23:00.006-03:00

Today we are opening a new section “The Student’s Corner”. Here we are going to post some of our students’ class work and different activities that we believe are worth sharing with you. If you want to post something, if you have some ideas and you want to share them with us just leave a comment here or send us an e-mail with the material you want to post and we’ll be glad to upload your contributions. Our e-mail address is oxfordinstitutesl@hotmail.com

The first post on this section is a story written by a group of students at the beginner level.

While I was preparing the lesson I started thinking about different activities to introduce and practise the present simple but not the common activities we are used to doing, I wanted something different. And then this idea came to my mind. I thought:” What about writing a story in the present?” But then as I was planning how to do the activity I became aware of the fact that this group of students had a very tiny vocabulary since they have already started learning English this year. And finally after thinking about this matter I said ok I’ll solve this by teaching them how to use the dictionary and it was fantastic. They really loved this activity because they knew they were producing new language, they were learning new things and the most important point, they knew their production was going to be shown in our blog. This is extremely good when we manage to encourage our students to learn new topics with such simple activities in which you just need some markers a board and of course something that all of us have: a pen and a sheet of paper.I asked my students to write a story based on the storyboard below

And this is the result.

Reading

2009-06-09T01:38:00.003-03:00

Cloze text

2009-06-09T00:10:00.005-03:00

Photos

2009-06-06T19:05:00.005-03:00

These are the photos of our last meeting on Saturday 6th

2009-06-06T00:04:00.008-03:00

Hello I'm Romi and I'm 24.

I Love Music and reading and in my free time I like going out with friends. I love teaching English and I really enjoy every time I share with my students.

Writing a review

2009-06-05T22:51:00.005-03:00

Vocabulary learning

2009-05-31T20:26:00.012-03:00

Today we want to share with you some good ways of learning new vocabulary.

One way could be using the new word in a sentence for example:

Envelope: "I put the letter in an envelope and then I posted it"

You can write the pronunciation of the word:
Back: bæk

Or you can use a picture:
Quickpost this image to Myspace, Digg, Facebook, and others!
- We will be sooner posting new tips. Remember that you can post your own ideas.

Listen To the song and comple the gaps

2009-05-31T01:01:00.008-03:00