Gaming

Edutainment is a new concept where the world of gaming interacts with the world of education.
1. learning by designing- pupils create their video games
2. learning by playing- playing a video game created by the teacher

Pupils need to collaborate with teachers to ensure that the context is academically sound. They can use 2D/3D game engines. Teachers make a link between learning objectives and the game and ensure that the key concepts were understood by the pupils. Some useful links: www. 3delearning com, www.freepaceman.org, www.freetetris.org/game.php .

eTwinning

I was lucky because I could participate the eTwinning annual conference in Budapest ( 31 March-2 April ).The theme of the conference was empowering pupils.There were about 500 teachers from the countries of the Europien Union.It offered you a lot of useful programmes and workshops. There was a plenary session by Tim Rylands: Teaching to inspire: Raising levels of creativity in all pupils.He showed a plenty of really useful websites, for example:www.againbutslower.com , www.taggalaxy.de .But you can find more info in his blog: @tymrylands.com/blog.

Audio

Pre-listening vocabulary
 Match up the expressions.
teaching..............................hotel
business..............................assistant
office..................................thing
international........................centre
strange...............................area


While listening
Match the words with their definitions.
group................................go or come in or into
scream..............................little pig
comfy...............................a number of people gathered or placed together
piggy................................a loud, high cry or noise
enter.................................free from discomfort







Listen to this story.
Post-listening activity
Put the events in the order you hear them.
_ All the children were very excited.
_ We saw a real pig.
_ We started to have the lesson as usual.
_ The pig walked upstairs.
_ I saw a very strange thing here.

Mimio

Food

1. Preview- Before you watch
Circle the odd one out. Explain your decision.
a, egg-butter-cabbage-milk-cheese
b, toast-jam-beef-marmalade-cereal
c, sausage-tomato-beef-lamb-pork

2. While you watch
Watch the video and complete the file.
BREAKFAST
The ingredients:1_________, 1__________, 4____________.
It can be accompanied by _________, a ______ of tea and __________.

3. Match the verbs with the ingredients.
a, splash....................... sausage
b, slice.......................... bacon
c, fry............................. mushrooms
d, chop......................... oil
e, add........................... tomato

Watch the video again and check.

4. After you watch
Are the statements true (T) or false (F) ?
a,Chop the mushrooms into big pieces? __
b,Slice the sausage. __
c,Add the mushrooms. __
d,Splash salt onto the egg yolk. __
e,Turn off the oven. __

5. Work in pairs. Discuss the questions.
-What do people have for breakfast in your country?
-Is it different from Britain?

Podcasts

Podcasting gives you another dimension to teaching and learning in the  classroom nowadays.It's a creative way to use podcasts which offers you and  your students a new approach for communicating assignment details and results. The big advantage  is it does not require any special equipment or software. You only need a computer with GarageBand (iMac) or Audacity (PC), webcam or flip camera, and a microphone.

Web 2.0

Blabberize — This site is silly and loads of fun. It allows you to animate portions of a photo or clip art to make it look like the subject talks. So, for example, if I upload a photo of a cowboy, I can draw a cutout around his jaw and make the jaw go up and down as if he's talking. Then you can record what you want the photo to say via upload, computer mic, or phone message and save it! Children and adults think the results are funny, and it's really easy to use.