Join The International Writing Exchange EVO 15

The International Writing Exchange is a collaborative writing project for EFL teachers and their students.

The goal of IWE is for students to learn about other cultures and improve their writing using Moodle.

Target audience:

EFL teachers who teach English for academic or special purposes.  

Learning Environments:

• Moodle course area where the International Writing Exchange will take place with the teachers and their students. Moodle is a password-protected area where teachers and students can work privately.
• WizIQ course area for the content and live online events for public viewing.

Session objectives:

By the end of the session (5 weeks), participants will have:

• discussed diversity and culture in the EFL class
• planned, implemented and evaluated writing activities using rubrics
• created a unit for an IWE class on Moodle
• used technology tools to showcase their unit
• reflected on the session activities and IWE 

This session is part of the Electronic Village Online 2015 (EVO15).

Do not miss this opportunity to connect with other ESL teachers and their students worldwide and join!

Places in the UK

Here we published an interesting activity from IES Vicente Medina in Archena (Murcia). It's a great work about some cities of UK, using Google Maps.

by liverpuliana

Music has been an important part of our subject this term, so I thought it would be nice to start this post with a track by The Jam, one of the most emblematic British bands from the 70s. Why this song? Check out these lyrics:

“In the city there’s a thousand faces all shining bright
And those golden faces are under 25
They wanna say, they gonna tell ya
About the young idea
You better listen now you’ve said your bit-a”

“In the city, in the city, in the city there’s thousand things I want to say to you”…. as it happens it’s 1º Bachillerato C who have been telling me lots of interesting facts about different cities in the UK. Here is the work they created. Thanks a lot, guys:

Oxford by María García, Lidia and Pilar.

Oxford by Nuria, Patricia, Selena and Celia.

York by Selena, Nuria, Celia and Patricia.

Manchester by Otmán, Aurora, Estela, Fran and Alicia.

Liverpool by María Atenza, Natacha, Isabel, Mª Carmen and Paula.

Juliet Capulet and Malala Yousafzai

Today we share an excellent English activity from IES Vicente Medina in Archena (Murcia). Inmaculada López, the teacher tells us:

by liverpuliana

Students from 3º ESO B and C have been working on “Romeo and Juliet” for the last two months. We decided we weren’t going to do an exam for this reading because we have come to the conclusion that reading and exam are two enemy words (just like Capulets and Montagues). So how would we evaluate this reading? Easy! Thinking of tasks which could be evaluated by the whole class, not just by the teacher and concentrating mainly on emotions and the role of women in the 16th century and how this role has changed in the last 4 centuries…or hasn’t it?

10th October, 2014 is an important date in the development of our task. Malala Yousafzai is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her struggle for a quality education for everybody. Call it coincidence or whatever but straight away we see a connection between Juliet’s story and Malala’s. Besides, we agree that this brave girl deserves a little homage from us. We start listening to her words on finding out she’s been given the prize:

After listening to her, we decide to record a radio programme in which students have to work in groups and assign roles to interview Malala, asking her a series of questions to see the connection between Shakespeare’s play and her story.

You can access the whole process of the task step by step by clicking here.

I strongly recommend you to listen to these radio programmes. Simply awesome work ;-)

Malala iVoox Channel