Holiday is a colourful and careless time, so we suggest colourful and careless language learning. Take a look at some of our foolproof ways of introducing colour-related vocabulary. 1. When spending free time with a child, it's worth playing creatively and making a drawing, a collage a piece of 3-D art called “Summer colours”. You can suggest drawing specific objects associated with summer or encourage him to create an abstract picture consisting...
Sewing - my hobby The beginning My grandma. That's why, redrawing patters from one of the best sewing magazines "Burda" wasn't a challange for me. Marking a line of hips, a waist and adding hoards Another momery from the childhood ...
Podcast: “Tolkien” is a biopic of John Roland Reuel Tolkien directed by Don Karukoski. The film premiered in May 2019. Nicholas Hoult, who as a kid appeared beside Hugh Grant in the comedy “About a Boy”, starred as the writer, whereas Lily Collins played the role of Edith Bratt. The youth probably know her from the film “Love, Rosie” (2014). The action of “Tolkien” is set in Great Britain and...
Adjectives are very useful when it comes to describing different animate and inanimate objects, since they characterize them. Students learn to name their character traits, as well as the properties of items which surround them, like a favourite thing or device. These are the tasks that adjectives are needed for. How to teach adjectives in a foreign language? Learning and using opposite adjectives may turn out to be the best method....
December is coming, which means that Christmas is approaching fast. Thanks to the classroom Advent calendar, the steps towards Christmas can be really great. Here is our suggestion. Prepare 24 small pockets, and glue them onto a large sheet of paper. Every day – as educators or teachers – you will fill them with new challenges. It depends on us whether the content of the tasks will be focused on language or on attitudes /...
I see so I know. I hear so I know. I feel so I know or, how to teach so that all know. Podcast: learning styles I have already mentioned here [link]the importance of individualization of teaching However, to apply it, we have to pay attention to a few crucial aspects. Undoubtedly, one of them is different styles of learning. Recognizing individual predispositions isn`t a task only for teachers, but also...
What if I would like as much as I don`t want, “Success is a ladder you cannot climb with your hands in your pockets,”– said Philip Wylie. So, what should we do to make students take their hands out in order to reach for knowledge with them? What should you do to make them realize the benefits that come from learning, and make a decision about learning on their own?...
I have got superpower! or, how to find enough fuel to pull this cart “The student comes to school with two schoolbags: in one, he has got books and notebooks; in the other, his whole world: loneliness, his parents’ divorce, dreams of sport success or grandfather's illness. The teacher should always remember about these two schoolbags.” Krystyna Baryś The thing is that the teacher also comes to school with two backpacks. . One contains...
„Sit down, it's hopeless!”, or, about knowledge and power in the process of teaching. One of the key terms characteristic of the educational process in its broad sense seems to be knowledge. According to the definition in one Polish dictionary, it is nothing else than: "totality of information gained thanks to learning: store of information regarding some field". And it's obvious to everyone - you study so as to gain knowledge...