Dark tourism

Dark tourism involves travelling to sites associated with death and tragedy. While teaching the topic of travelling and tourism, the following lesson plan offers a different and more interesting (among teenagers) choice. You can still teach basic vocabulary based on the topic but at the same time make the lesson more meaningful to students.
Before doing the following lesson, you can use images  to elicit the names of famous dark tourism destinations. Students love the use of art in education.







 


MORE RESOURCES

 VOCABULARY ON TRAVELLING(VIDEO LESSON)
SPECIAL INTEREST TOURISM IDEAS
TRAVEL-TOURISM VOCABULARY
LEARN ESL WITH DREW MATERIAL
JANIS'S ESL HOME PAGE MATERIAL

The Giving Tree

A great book to teach our students  not only the topic of  unconditional love and mutual respect but also vocabulary about the environment.
You can use it with young and adolescent students.
The worksheet below was created to use with teenagers at high school (B1-C2 level).









Below you can watch a video where Silverstein narrates the story.



 RESOURCES

 LITERATURE IN THE CURRICULUM
MATERIAL ON THE TOPIC OF ENVIRONMENT 
GREENPACKONLINE MATERIAL FOR WRITING AND SPEAKING
CLIMATE CHANGE CROSSWORD BBC 
ENVIRONMENT CROSSWORD BBC
ECOKIDS INTERACTIVE GAMES 
ESOLCOURSES MATERIAL
ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS BRITISH COUNCIL

The car that reads your face

An interesting video about a device that can help in the future eliminate car accidents. Students get excited and motivated while working on a topic they love.


 


 RESOURCES

CARS AND DRIVING RESOURCES
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS VOCABULARY 
MICHELLEHENRY TRANSPORTS
BBC CARS CROSSWORD
DRIVING VOCABULARY
NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE PARTNERS CAR ACCIDENT SPEAKING ACTIVITY 
NEW ZEALAND LANGUAGE PARTNERS  LESSON PLAN ABOUT INSURANCE

BigIQkids vocabulary and spelling

BigIQkids is a useful tool to help our learners practise their vocabulary and spelling abilities.
The teacher creates a list on a topic and then a vocabular and spelling list of interactive games is created.

• It's free
• There is a premium  version available

Click below to view a list of games created my me on the topic of films    
(level Pre -Intermediate)

      VIEW ACTIVITY

You need to create an account to view the exercise. Below you can have an idea what the platform looks like.


                                                   

The power of love

St Valentine's day is over but I had been trying for a couple of days to come up with a lesson about that special day. Hustling to deal with everyting at home -including a toddler -I thought about an article I 've read about the power of love.
The following lesson plan is based on that touching story depicting the love of a man about a woman.





 



MORE RESOURCES 

 RESOURCES ABOUT LOVE BY MICHELLEHENRY
THE BBC FLATMATES DIALOGUE
LYRICSTRAINING THE POWER OF LOVE
EFLLECTURER MATERIAL
ESOLCOURSES ACTIVITIES
ESLDISCUSSIONS IDEAS
 MORE ESL SPEAKING  IDEAS ON THE TOPIC

Black History Month!

February is Black History Month and a great opportunity to mix history with English!

I've used the webquest  below a few times in classroom and students have found it really interesting and quite different from what is offered in the coursebook.





 

RESOURCES

TIMELINE OF BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY
CIVIL RIGHTS SYNOPSIS
TEACHER RESOURCES ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS
SMITHSONIAN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES 
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH
YOUNG REPORTERS ON RACE AND CHANGE
BLACK HISTORY MICHELLEHENRY RESOURCES 
PBS LESSON PLANS


ALSO HERE YOU CAN SEE AN INTERACTIVE VIDEO TO USE WITH YOUR STUDENTS ABOUT ROSA PARKS AND HER LIFE



NOW TAKE THE QUIZ BELOW AND CHECK HOW MUCH YOU KNOW

HapYak interactive videos

A helpful tool to create interactive videos(without immediate feedback though) is HapYak.

It's easy to use and free(for up to 20 videos) and helps a teacher enforce blended learning in their teaching. It's also useful for those dreaming of a flipped classroom(a bit difficult to impose if residing in a country where paycut in the section of education are imposed)

HERE  is a video I've created using this tool. It's about an important figure in the Black History  Movement.