Thursday, 18 December 2008

Bilingual Education Blog


Edelvives have just started up their BILINGUAL LEARNING BLOG. Go to the left hand column and click on BILINGUAL LEARNING. The blog will feature practical ideas for the classroom alongside interviews, tips and other ideas and suggestions.

Saturday, 29 November 2008

Palma de Mallorca (CEP Manacor and Inca)

Thanks to Mabel and Victoria for organising everything and for providing SUCH great help and support! Great groups at both CEPs! Well done!
Here are some pre-school links that might come be useful:
First-School (activities, crafts, worksheets)
BBC (preschool websites)
Enchanted Learning (preschool section)
Preschool Express
Awards and Diplomas

Thursday, 20 November 2008

Back from the Philippines



Lovely trip to the Philippines :) Manila, Tagatay and Palawan (Puerto Princesa, Sabang, Coron). Delicious food, wonderful people, gorgeous place :) The only downfall was my run-in with a water buffalo and our days in the hospital in Manila! Much better now :)

Monday, 20 October 2008

Trip to Serbia


Wonderful training trip to Serbia! Congratulations to all the OTA 'graduates' :) Thank you Ljiljana...and Pele :)

Tuesday, 7 October 2008

Physical Education

Lesson Plans for PE classes.

Lesson Plans
and activities for PE warm ups (from TeAchnology)

Dance Lesson ideas (the four seasons)

Video with subtitles on Sports Injuries (from BBC)

Sunday, 5 October 2008

Carrera de la Mujer (Race to raise funds for breast cancer research)


Great race! Video of the event HERE.

Thursday, 2 October 2008

Internet Public Library


Visit this website provided by the Internet Public Library. Great links to activities for Art, Music, Health, Maths, Science and Computer Studies.

Friday, 5 September 2008

Clips for CLIL


Blog with links to video clips and worksheets for CLIL classes.

Monday, 1 September 2008

Turkey and Serbia (August 2008)


Series of workshops in Turkey and in Serbia. Lovely time in both places :) Thanks to OUP, ODTU and The English Book :)

Thursday, 14 August 2008

Wednesday, 13 August 2008

Project Work and CLIL

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: classes clil)

Monday, 11 August 2008

CLIL worksheets for Primary Maths


A set of very basic maths worksheets for primary school. Material posted on Scribd.

Friday, 8 August 2008

Bouncing on the Beach


A short video bouncing on the beach in Conil!

Saturday, 2 August 2008

CLIL Science worksheets for lower primary

A set of basic, hand-drawn worksheets that can be used the lower primary Science class. Materials in PDF format on SCRIBD. I hope they're useful :)
I have just added a 2nd set of worksheets --- click HERE to see new stuff.

Saturday, 12 July 2008

CLIL with Children



Article I wrote entitled CLIL with Children in Issue 57 of English Teaching Professional.

Tuesday, 8 July 2008

Ways Teachers can Use Computers


ELTA newsletter including an article I wrote on some ideas for using computers in class.

Friday, 4 July 2008

SAFA Summer School in Ubeda



Fantastic week with great students and wonderful 'social' events! Special thanks to Paco, Eva and José :) Very nice to meet and work with Aurora, Dani and the other trainers!
Click here to see VIDEO!!!

Webpages for participants:
- Colouring pages - Paint a Picture
- Make Music with Boohbah - British Council - songs with images and lyrics - Preschool Rainbow - Enchanted Learning

Wednesday, 18 June 2008

CLIL Course in CEP de Palma de Mallorca

Two days of CLIL training for teachers from the Balearic Islands :) Lovely visit, great teachers and organisers, perfect weather --- too good to be true! The course was team taught with Robert Quinn.

Thursday, 12 June 2008

Visit to Switzerland








Talks in Aarau with very active, participative teachers and organisers followed by a lovely evening in Zurich (trying to avoid football fans!)
For teachers from yesterday's sessions:
Portfolio for young learners (from Nacell/CILT)
Project 3rd edition competition webpage.