The Red Telephone Box - a British Icon

Are you familiar with the British red telephone box? do you know why is it red or why has it got that specific design?

If you want to find answers to those questions and learn more on this great icon, go to http://www.anglotopia.net/british-history/anglotopia-magazine-great-british-icons-a-history-of-the-red-telephone-box/

FilmEnglish

As a teacher, do you use videos in class?

As a student, do you like watching clips in your English class?

Then, you can visit http://film-english.com/, where you'll find lots of lessons based around high quality short films.   

HAPPY EASTER!

Easter is already here!!!! :)

I love these holly days because a lot of wonderful memories from my childhood come to my mind.


If you also want to have fun these days, do not hesitate to try these great tasks ;)


http://www.eslkidstuff.com/EasterGames.htm#.Vu7ateLhDIU

http://bogglesworldesl.com/easter_worksheets.htm

http://www.anglomaniacy.pl/easterPrintables.htm

http://www.eslholidaylessons.com/04/easter_sunday.pdf

file:///C:/Users/Pc/Downloads/easter-lesson.pdf

St.Patrick's Day! (17th March)

Today Irish people and the Irish-at-heart around the world celebrate St. Patrick's Day!! It began as a religious festivity for the patron saint of Ireland but it has become an international festival with parades and everything green!! Some of the symbols associated with today's feast are a pot of gold or shamrocks, as you can see in this picture:

The most famous quote you can hear today is:

If you go to http://www.history.com/topics/st-patricks-day, you'll watch wonderful video clips that teach you great facts about St.Patrick's Day. They're worth it!

And if you want to learn vocabulary or just want to have lesson ideas for your students, click on the following sites:

http://www.eslholidaylessons.com/03/saint_patricks_day.pdf

http://speakenglish.thaireformed.com/uploads/3/4/0/1/3401675/___st._patricks_day_int.pdf

https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/saint-patricks-day

http://bogglesworldesl.com/stpatricksday_worksheets.htm

EDpuzzle

EDpuzzle is a wonderful online tool for teachers & students that lets you edite and modify videos in order to adapt them to your needs. It's the ideal app to facilitate a flipped classroom.

If you want to know more, watch this Demo and click on the website, it's worth it!

https://edpuzzle.com/

International Women's Day (8th March)

International Women's Day, originally called International Working Women's Day, is celebrated on March 8. In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation, and love towards women to a celebration for women's economic, political, and social achievements. In some regions, the day lost its political flavor, and became simply an occasion for people to express their love for women in a way somewhat similar to a mixture of Mother's Day and Valentine's Day. In other regions, however, the political and human rights theme designated by the United Nations runs strong, and political and social awareness of the struggles of women worldwide are brought out and examined in a hopeful manner. Some people celebrate the day by wearing purple ribbons.

Source: wikipedia


This is today's Doodle, enjoy watching it!

It's a very interesting topic to deal with in class with your students. These are some great tasks:

http://speakenglish.thaireformed.com/uploads/3/4/0/1/3401675/___wemons_day_int.pdf (Lesson Plan)

http://www.eslholidaylessons.com/03/international_womens_day.html (Reading Comprehension)

http://www.5minuteenglish.com/march10.htm (Spot the grammar mistake)

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY!!!

Language Research Ambassador - Cambridge University Press

I'm very happy to tell you that my English classroom (English Learning Solutions) has been awarded with a Language Research Ambassador Certificate by Cambridge University Press, from the University of Cambridge. I coordinated and collected data from my students who wanted to participate as Junior researchers in this wonderful project.


After taking part in this wonderful project, which my students enjoyed a lot, I have been told from Cambridge University Press that my English Centre has been the runner up in their competition. Many schools from all over the world have taken part in it and having the second position is wonderful!!!!! I'm very glad and grateful as a teacher. Congrats also to my students, you are awesome!!