Homophones

Homophones

20 Things We Should Say More Often

Here is a special list of 20 things we should say more often. What would you add to it?

5 Food Films to Binge On For Thanksgiving

 Films about food not only for Thanksgiving lessons :-)
Click here

Town

Create your own town.

Show it to your students and encourage them to create their own imaginary town.

Batkid Saves San Francisco Gotham City - Leukimia kid Dream come true

The Butterfly Alphabet

Norwegian nature photographer Kjell Bloch Sandved has an enormous collection of butterfly images, and one day he noticed that many of the natural shapes in their beautiful wing patterns resembled letters of the alphabet. So he created the Butterfly Alphabet, featuring all 26 letters in the English alphabet, plus 10 single-digit numbers from 0 to 9.

You must show it to your Students :-)


You can read more here

Before I die I want to . . .

Before I Die – amazing project offers a global ethnography of people's most heartfelt hopes and desires.

• What do YOU want to do before you die?

Click here to see more.

The beauty of a second. Present Continuous and video making

The inspiration came from here: Film Lesson

The lesson is about using Present Continous and making short, one second videos.

Students they are going to watch a short film in which there are 60 clips each lasting one second. Ask them to identify as many of the moments as they can using the present continuous tense

1) The Beauty of a Second - 1st round compilation

2) The Beauty of a Second - 2nd round compilation

3) The Beauty of a Second - 3rd round compilation

Show your students 'Best One Second' winner Jan Herms - Monumental Night with Moving Stars

Encourage your students to make their own video.
“The Beauty of a Second” is a short film contest presented by award-winning director Wim Wenders.  
The contest is open to everyone: from amateurs to professionals. Everybody can become a filmmaker.
Everyone has a story to tell, so get filming!

Bags

vocabulary: types of bags

Hungry Planet

here

Siren of the lambs - New Banksy

• Street artist Banksy's latest project shows screaming stuffed animals being taken to slaughter.
• Some of the creatures move their heads and “cry out” for help, attracting the attention of people on the street.
• A social commentary on the horrors of meat industry.

 

Love Is Walking Hand In Hand

Beautiful cartoon stories about love: here

stop frame animation - a romantic story

"In a world controlled and timed by light, an ordinary man has a plan that could change the natural order of things".

click here

Inspiring Nature: 15 amazing things in nature

Ask your students: how inspiring is nature?

Show them beautiful and amazing things that exist in nature, such as e.g. frozen air bubbles in Abraham Lake or Giant Crystal Cave in Mexioco. See them all here

Your students will love them :-)

You can practise adjectives or ask studnets to name as many as they can:
- amazing
- awesome
- wonderful
- incredible
- stunning
- marvellous
- fascinating
- unbelievable

Frozen air bubbles in Abraham Lake. Read More: http://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/10/15-amazing-things-you-wont-believe-actually-exist-in-nature.html - Follow us on Facebook: whydontyoutrythisHer

Mother Nature is beautiful and amazing because we can see many amazing stuff like these 15 things that you won't believe they actually exist. All these places are real. It is hard to believe in that, but that is true. Read More: http://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/10/15-amazing-things-you-wont-believe-actually-exist-in-nature.html - Follow us on Facebook: whydontyoutrythis

Mother Nature is beautiful and amazing because we can see many amazing stuff like these 15 things that you won't believe they actually exist. All these places are real. It is hard to believe in that, but that is true. Read More: http://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2013/10/15-amazing-things-you-wont-believe-actually-exist-in-nature.html - Follow us on Facebook: whydontyoutrythis

Dancing, writing e-mail

Based on the song by The Weepies - World Spins Madly On (More on Film English here)

One song - two options:

You can play both songs with no sound and ask students to narrate the story and to name emotions they feel while watching it. And then play it with the sound and ask them if they imagined this type of music with such a video. You might also give them lyrics later and discuss the song.
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When you use the first video (with the dance) you can link it with writing an e-mail.
Task: You have enrolled in the dance classes. Write an e-mail to your friend in which you will:
1) explain why you have chosen these classes
2) describe the partner you are going to dance with
3) mention one problem that you had during your first class

Salvador Dalí's little-known and lovely 1969 illustrations for Alice in Wonderland

beautiful illustrations: here
and an incredible book: here

Funny English Idioms

Lie or Lay

solar beat

Musical Solar System is based on real orbital frequencies.
see here: http://www.whitevinyldesign.com/solarbeat/
 
It's one of those simple concepts where astrophysics is translated into a pleasing ambient loop soundtrack that's more profound than your average web diversion.

Idioms