To be or not to be a Footie fan?

Even if you're not a footie fan, this summer's World Cup can kick off some memorable lessons.
Do you know Zakumi? ?? Zakumi (born 16 June 1994 (1994-06-16) (age 15)) is the Official Mascot for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. He is an anthropomorphised leopard with green hair, presented on 22 September 2008. His name comes from "ZA", the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code for South Africa, and "kumi", a word that means ten in various African languages.
The green and yellow (gold) colours of the character match the colours used in South African sport uniforms and can also be seen in the South Africa national football team's kit.

Are you a Footie fan? I consider myself a footie fan!!!!!!but if you don't, may be your pupils yes. Anyway do you know that the World Cup is a wonderful event to teach them countries, nationalities, traditions, history , vocabulary, art design, music and more ?

We, as "teachers", can use the tournament as a vehicle to drive pupils' learning in a wide range of curriculum areas.

Surfing the web I found you wonderful sites to learn about one of the most beautiful sports in the world "football".

Here you can find motivated activities to give to your students and learn a lot with them

BBC world service

Football vocabulary

Football History, Voacabulary and Quiz

World Cup activities

And if you like to make your own activities Click on the mascot , and you can find more information about the world cup including a trail of Zakumi , the video and Lyrics of the World Cup song to work with your pupils

Football

Are you a footie fan?

When and where exactly did football start? it is a question that has no precise answer to it. You can easily say that this popular game has been played for more than three thousand years. The nativity of modern-day soccer must be credited to Britain. It was also known as the association football, with Scotland and England being the co-founders of the systematic game of soccer.

Modern History of Soccer: 18th Century onwards

In 1815, a major development took place that made soccer popular in Universities, Colleges and Schools. The popular English School and Eton College came forth with a set of rules, known as the Cambridge Rules. Football was segregated into two groups; some colleges and schools opted for Rugby rules that allowed tripping, shin kicking and also carrying the ball. These rules were exclusively prohibited as per the Cambridge rules.

The history of modern-day soccer was established in 1863. In October 1863, eleven representatives from London clubs and schools met at the Freemason�s Tavern to set up common fundamental rules to control the matches amongst themselves.
Firmly establishing the foundation of soccer in 1869, the Football Association strictly banned any kind of handling of the ball. Soccer�s popularity spread rapidly during the 1800s as British sailors, traders and soldiers introduced the sport to different parts of the globe.

Italians, Austrians and Germans drew to Europe, while Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil adopted the sport in South America. FIFA was established in the year 1904 and by early 1930s, different leagues were operating from various countries. FIFA is credited with organizing the first world cup in Uruguay. The history of soccer is rich with events, development and its growing craze all over the world. You will find yourself amazed as you learn about different times of this wonderful sport that has held our awe and admiration for over 3000 years.

If you want to know more visit this site Football History and if you want to play:Football game

Geography

This is a power point which could be very useful when you have to teach countries and nationalities
You can find activities in this site

Mary Rose\Countries And Nationalities

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Games

Games give you the opportunity to teach your pupils about rules, about integrity and honesty, and about luck. Games also can help increase your children's ability to focus her attention. Playing board or card games also is a very social occasion. Game playing enables and encourages your pupils to practice important social skills that she will need to play well with other children.


Material for games made of foam have more durability.

Old MacDonald

This is a wonderful and famous song to teach Farm animals




And here you have the lyrics and some activities to do with the song

Phonetics

Phonetics to teach or not to teach... that's the question
The answer is simple: Teach it. We must know that English is not a grammar language, it is a sound language, so the introduction of Phonetics is very important.
If you think that it could be boring here you have some sites that could help you and ENJOY IT:

Pronunciation Exercises

Pronunciation & Intonation Teaching Materials


ESL phonics & Phonetics worksheets for Kids


Pronunciation tips

The importance of Phonetics

Phonetic Challenge

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Teaching in Bilingual Schools

Teaching in a Bilingual School is a wonderful challenge for a teacher.But may be, you do not know how to do it or you do not have enough material and your subject is Social Studies. Don't worry!!Do you think about Power Points? here you have a wonderful site to get some.. Come on!! Have a go

Social Studies

More Nursery Rhymes

As the wikipedia says:The term nursery rhyme is used for ‘traditional’ songs for young children in Britain and many English speaking countries, but usage only dates from the nineteenth century and in North America the older ‘Mother Goose Rhymes’ is still often used .
Here you have some useful sites:

Nursary Rhymes

Nursery Rhymes - Lyrics and Origins

Word Families in Nursery Rhymes ...


Children's Songs, Fairy Tales & Nursery Rhymes Section

Nursery Rhymes

Nursery Rhymes are really very useful for the early stages and they are easy to learn for children.
Here we have one of the sweetest alphabet songs

Stories, stories, stories...

"Once upon a time...........": Magic words which open the door in children's imagination. A good story enriches our pupils'minds, they are motivating and they can learn vocabulary. We can find some on these sites:

Stories
Storytime
stories for everybody
short stories

English short stories

English Reading short stories

The Very Hungry Caterpillar booklet

the Very Hungry Caterpillar

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Story

This is a lovely story that children really like, you can find some activities in the booklet to work with them
Enjoy it!!!

Material for your classroom

Nowadays we have a lot of materials, the Book Publishers give us them, but sometines you have to prepare your own material. In my opinion it is better to preprae them in foam more than construction paper. In foam the have more durability.
You can see some in my album :"Decorating the classroom"
or you can obtain more information in these sites : foamy blog
If you want to buy materials: Foamygal or tree house

Decorating your classroom

The classroom is place where your pupils and you spend most of the day. If it is cloudy,rainy,snowy or sunny, what you must have clear in your mind, is that the classroom has to be the most wonderful place in the school. It must be relaxing, quiet and warm, because it is the place where children have one of the most import process of their lives, which is the process of learning. And you as a teacher has this privilege to lead and guide them in this process, so make your classroom a happy place, decorate it , and let the sunshine in it, even if it is rainy outside.

Mother's day is coming

On Mother's day , your pupils will want to make a card or something special, may be you can get some ideas from here Mother's day crafts

The Story of Mother's Day


The earliest Mother's Day celebrations can be traced back to the spring celebrations of ancient Greece in honor of Rhea, the Mother of the Gods.
During the 1600's, England celebrated a day called "Mothering Sunday".
Celebrated on the 4th Sunday of Lent (the 40 day period leading up to Easter), "Mothering Sunday" honored the mothers of England.
During this time many of the England's poor worked as servants for the wealthy. As most jobs were located far from their homes, the servants would live at the houses of their employers. On Mothering Sunday the servants would have the day off and were encouraged to return home and spend the day with their mothers.
A special cake, called the mothering cake, was often brought along to provide a festive touch.
As Christianity spread throughout Europe the celebration changed to honor the "Mother Church" - the spiritual power that gave them life and protected them from harm. Over time the church festival blended with the Mothering Sunday celebration.
People began honoring their mothers as well as the church.
In the United States Mother's Day was first suggested in 1872 by Julia Ward Howe (who wrote the words to the Battle hymn of the Republic) as a day dedicated to peace. Ms. Howe would hold organized Mother's Day meetings in Boston, Mass ever year.
In 1907 Ana Jarvis, from Philadelphia, began a campaign to establish a national Mother's Day. Ms. Jarvis persuaded her mother's church in Grafton, West Virginia to celebrate Mother's Day on the second anniversary of her mother's death, the 2nd Sunday of May. By the next year Mother's Day was also celebrated in Philadelphia.
Ms. Jarvis and her supporters began to write to ministers, businessman, and politicians in their quest to establish a national Mother's Day. It was successful as by 1911 Mother's Day was celebrated in almost every state. President Woodrow Wilson, in 1914, made the official announcement proclaiming Mother's Day as a national holiday that was to be held each year on the 2nd Sunday of May.
While many countries of the world celebrate their own Mother's Day at different times throughout the year, there are some countries such as Denmark, Finland, Italy, Turkey, Australia, and Belgium which also celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May.

Songs " the wheels on the bus"

Teaching with Music


Take advantage of the power of music and use it in your ESL classes.


Songs are wonderful for teaching vocabulary,whatsmore they are highly motivated, one of these songs are:" the wheels on the bus"

You can see the video and listen to the song and you find activities and ideas in this site to reinforce vocabulary

And if you want to listen to more songs "Click on the dog and you will see.......

Songs

Animal world

Animals is a topic that children love most,here you can have a slide where you can see the difference between Farm and Jungle animals

Mary RoseWelcome To The Animal World 2

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Art Attack

If you have art as a subject to teach and you are lack of ideas for your classes or as parents you want totry some of these activities you have a wonderful site here based on the Disney Channel pregramme. Art attack

It might surprise you to know that presenter Neil Buchanan isn't a qualified artist - he's a musician!

"Before I appeared on television, I was in a rock band called Marseille. We made two albums and five or six singles, on vinyl, so you can tell how long ago it was!", he explains. "Mums and Dads might remember the band - or even have the songs somewhere!"

Neil grew up in Aintree, Liverpool. "I've enjoyed art since I was very young. One day I thought that I'd make quite a good artist, so I enrolled at Liverpool Art College. They told me that they thought I wasn't good enough, so I walked out and have never looked back", he remembers.

Neil has presented Art Attack since it began on CiTV an amazing twelve years ago. "Those early programmes are still being shown in some countries, and it's rather embarrassing to look back at the haircut I had at the time. I was recently asked if I had been wearing a wig! But I don't think it looked that bad", he laughs!

British life and culture

In my opinion it is very important to teach children the culture of the United Kingdom. You can see this in the English students' books.
As teachers , may be you will need to have information such as: the Union Jack
As parents if you want to help your children with their homework or if you are an student and you have to prepare a project about Britain , in this site you have excellent information in an easy way to read . Project Britain

Surfing the web you can find excellent pages such as learningkids from the British Council. Here you can find activities, games, songs, animated stories and flashcards to print and more things for children.
It is an interesting site to visit for teachers and parents.
For teachers is a "must" and for parents a wonderful place to find ideas to help your children in the wonderful process of learning a language

Learn English

Whatever your level in English, we can help you test and develop your English language skills. There are a variety of courses in the UK, in your country and online. Explore below the exciting learning opportunities British Council has to offer you to improve your English Language skills.

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This blog is for everybody. Students, teachers and parents. I hope you can find it useful.

Here you can find activities, videos, web sites and other materials for your English classroom or to learn English at home.

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