Hello! Today I’m going to introduce you into a new resource. This time is not a website instead of that I’ve chosen a YouTube channel where you can find all the Super Simple songs for free.

This is a very useful resource to use because you can find all types of songs to work with everything like Christmas, Halloween, animals, numbers or routines.

Using this songs I think it’s a way to motivate children while at the same time they are learning. Also, if they are motivated you can introduce them into a new topic easily. But, you can also use them for warming up activities to work with different routines.

Seeing the importance of working with songs in class I searched for more resources and I found more interesting ones, Patty Shukla Kids Music and Dream English.

There you can find a big amount of videos to work with everything I have talked above. So, I think that it’s very interesting to use songs in class and very easy to find new ones because, as you have seen, there are lots of places to search. 

Hello again! Today I’m going to introduce you to an amazing website of resources, for me one of the best and the one that I use most for the English classes I am doing at the moment.

That website is Twinkl an English website where you can find lots of activities, games and resource packs for almost everything you can think about when you are teaching English. It’s based on the English curriculum so you can find it divided into the English stages.

The only bad thing about it is that if you want to download everything you find there you have to pay but, in my opinion, it is worthy. 

Obviously, as I have said for me Twinkl is in the first place but I want to introduce you also to another interesting website, Tools for educators. In this webpage you don’t have all the resources done like in Twinkl but you have a lot of templates to design it by yourself.

I found it interesting because you can create lots of sheets like, reading worksheets, printable games or hand-outs. You have it without anything and then you can put the vocabulary you want to use and the website gives you the image also for this words. 

Hello again! After a couple of weeks with some lessons cancelled and two different teachers in class I can write again some things that we had been taught about storytelling.

We had some examples about the advantages of working with it in class like:

• Giving motivation to pupils and engage them.
• Teaching pronunciation.
• Providing the chance to connect English with other subjects.
• Making the children work together.

We were introduced also to some books like Are you my mother? Or The great pet sale. With that examples we were able to see that repetition is really important in these stories and also the fact of having some rhythm.

I think that it’s a really useful subject to talk about because storytelling works very well with children and it makes them love reading so that increasing the curiosity about reading. Also, there are lots of resources to work with it and it’s easy to create lots of them by ourselves or with children in class. 

From that session then I had the idea of creating a tile in my Symbaloo related to storytelling. This tile will lead to a document where I am going to put the books I find interesting to read for children, in the document I will include the title of the book an image and a website with further information. I had the idea of calling that document the reading corner because it’s going to be like my personal virtual library. 

Welcome to the weekly blog of ELT Methodology from myself, Clara a student of Primary Education at the University of Barcelona.  My aim is to explain and show the things that I point out from this subject.

The first thing I want to show you comes from a presentation we had about some interesting websites to use with children or for ourselves as future teachers. I found it interesting because really useful websites were shown to us. To summarize it I am going to introduce you two of them blubbr.tv and storybird.

Blubbr.tv gives you the option of making a game show with videos and questions that you choose or create. The program puts it all together and give you time to answer each question and a punctuation for each pupil.

Example of a quiz in blubbr.tv

Storybird is an amazing website with lots of nice pictures created by some artists. With that pictures you can create a story tale and then save it for you. I found this one really interesting because it gives you the option of making some stories for your pupils or to create a story  with your pupils in class.   

Example of how to create a story in storybird