Would you like to describe an animal from the ones you can see in the picture below?
You’re most welcome to do it! Do not mention the animal and let blog-readers guess what animal you’re describing.
I usually get my mosaics from this website http://bighugelabs.com/ . It’s got lots of funny stuff !
That’s a question I’m often asked by my students and here’s the answer I offer them.
What kind of “corner” are you referring to? Is it the corner of a room or the corner of a street?
♥ If you are giving directions to a shop, then you should say:
This shop is on the corner of High Street
♥ If you are saying that a person is sitting in a chair in a room, then:
Mary is sitting in a chair in the corner of the sitting-room.
Summarising: you use in, when the corner is inside and on, when the corner is outside.
Note: you can also say at the corner to refer to the corner of a street.
I’ll wait at the corner/ I’ll wait on the corner.
Writing prompts is a blog full of interesting ideas to write about.
Ideas that are accompanied by a picture to boost up your imagination and creativity.
We all know that all writers sometimes get stuck, well, students too; but this lack of inspiration will never be used as an excuse if ideas come together with a picture. Prompts can be easily be displayed on a whiteboard and brainstorming can be done before students set out to do the writing task ahead.
Step 1. Look at the mosaic below with the faces of some well-known celebrities and, bearing in mind what you know about them, write a description based on their personalities. Make sure you use personality adjectives. Do not mention the name of the celebrity you are describing as your classmates aim will be to find out who you are describing. Please, don’t be too flattering or too hard on people. Remember that “not all that glitters is gold”.
Important: the description should be written in the way of a comment to this post. How to do it? at the end of the post, click No Comments (or 9 Comments if hopefully I have already published nine comments), leave the comments in the right field, repeat the required anti-spam word and click Submit Comment.
Step 2. Let’s have some fun. How would you fancy converting text to music? This funny programme allows you to type any words and it sings them back to you. Try typing some personality adjectives and listen to them sung by different people. The site is called Text to sing.
Step 3. Exercises. Do the following online exercises .
Step 4: Writing. How do you see yourself and how others see you? This task, as you can imagine, requires mature students as it involves writing and reading about you. First, students find a classmate they know pretty well. Secondly, students write about their own personality and then, about their friend’s personality. Encourage students to explain and exemplify why they have chosen a certain adjective to describe them and also to describe a negative trait in their personalities as well as in their friend’s. Students pair themselves and compare what they have written.
Step 5. Singing Hand in my pocket by Alanis Morisette
And there we are again! The school year has finished and we are again saying our goodbyes . This year has been very special for me ,
professionally speaking. I don’t know whether I’ll be given the chance to ever work here again but it’ been really nice and this is my big thank you to everybody who’s made this year a really pleasant experience. I’ll be leaving for Malta in a week’s time to do a course to Spice Up my Teaching so this blog is going on holidays until September. Hope to virtually see you then.
GoAnimate.com: Saying my goodbyes by cristina.cabal
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