Halloween... Scary!!

Is it too late to prepare some activities for Halloween?

While I was "surfing" on the Internet looking for good resources for teaching, I've found a nice website for teachers and I thought it could be nice if I spoke about it, for me, in the future. The website's name is http://bogglesworldesl.com and is full of resources. One of the most interesting topics in it is Halloween's.

If you want to have some worksheets to work with your class, click here.

Another very interesting resource from the British Council website that I've found is the Haunted House Game. Perhaps it is a bit difficult to play, depending of the level of our pupils, but if you work with the vocabulary before playing, you should have no problems.

Have a scary Halloween!!!

Halloween is coming!!!

Hi everybody!

It's getting cold here in Lyon so it's time to put on our coats... Anyway I have too much to do so I stay all the day at home...

Today, I'd like to speak about a super event that's coming very soon.... HALLOWEEN!!!! 

Oh my God, I'm scared!! 

Halloween is a holiday that takes place during the night of October 31. Actually, Halloween is a words contraction that means All Hallows' Evening. Halloween is also known as Hallowe'en or All Hallows' Eve. 

Its origins are an ancient Celtic festival known as Samhain, when they celebrated the end of the harvest season in the Gaelic culture. Because they believed boundaries and dead overlapped come back to life to kill alive people. Oh, well, we still think it!

During Halloween night, many traditional activities are developed: 

- Trick or treat

- Bonfires

- Costume parties

- Visiting "haunted houses"

Today, so many people celebrate this great event. It's very fun and children love it! So, why not celebrate it in class?

There are many resources on the cloud to be taken to bring them to the class. During these lasts weeks, I've been investigating about American teachers blogs. I have to say, now I finally have a favourite teacher's blog!!! It's name is I want to be a super teacher and it's full of wonderful resources like for Halloween party. This woman is an American teacher and in her schoolthey are organizing a Halloween costumes party. 

One of the activities that she proposes is working with adjectives by filling in a Trick or treat sheet. We could also use this kind of activity to describe Halloween and to use other kind of vocabulary. 

There is a nice activity that I personally like: cooking!! Why not? I think it's really important to motivate children to eat healthy. There are many problems with children that don't eat properly. But perhaps, if you let your children cook, for sure they have fun and then, they will eat because they have cooked it!

So it would be nice if I could do a "culinaire" activity with my children about halloween. As I love baking, I'd prepare some cupcakes for children to decorate them with Halloween's things.

Glogster poster!!!

I'd like to introduce you a simple way to make digital posters. In class, we were speaking about this kind of resources in the web. There were many sites to make posters like Popplet, Prezi and Glogster. 

We were speaking about the importance of using tales, songs, nursery rhymes, etc in English classes. We divided the class in groups and we discussed about it and at the end, we had to choose one the resources to make a poster to presentate it. Nowadays, as I live in France (not in Spain, where my university is... that's a long story...) I have to work on my way, so that, here's my POSTER. I did it with Gloster.

Welcome to my new blog!

Hello to everybody!!
I know what are you are thinking... Oh, my God... another student's blog... Well... That is, I'm sorry but I find blogs the best way to communicate all over the world. And I have so many things to say...
First of all, I have to apologize cause my English is very... extremely bad! But, I'mstudying English so that I don't know every single word!
Do you know what I'm going to do with this blog? This is not only for my teacher to show her that I'm doing my best with her subject. Ok, this is, but besides, I'm going to write about teaching resources because they are very important when teaching action. I'd like to become a super teacher, so that I think that I can do it only if I have enough resources to teach. I want to be properly prepared (if I'm lucky to get a job in education...)

So, I hope whoever you are, that you will enjoy with this blog. If not, tell me how to do it ;)