Switzerland (Bern and Zurich) May 2009

Wonderful couple of days in Switzerland :) Workshops for primary teachers on Saturday with Mary Slattery and 'bear' (for more info, click HERE)!! Thanks to Jayne and Jennifer and, of course, to the teachers who were very active and participative :)

Five Senses Worksheets

A set of ready made worksheets on the FIVE SENSES for the primary school classroom. Click HERE to view the document on Scribd.

CLIL Course in Aldeaduero - May 2009

Bell International and the Junta de Castilla-Leon are hosting the CLIL course in Aldeaduero :) Great group and beautiful location :) Click HERE to see a short video from the course. If you'd like to hear the 'Chaparrita' song click here.

Back in Egypt - April 2009

Back in Egypt (Alexandria and Cairo) talking to teachers about
First Friends :)

OUP Day - Kusadasi, Turkey

Weekend event with Dede and Ken Wilson at beautiful hotel :) Thanks to Ipek and her team and to the teachers for their active participation :)

SAFA Course 2009

Congratulations to everyone for all their hard work and thanks to Jeff and Mabel for their help during the session!

Online Picture Dictionaries

The following online picture dictionaries might be useful for EFL or CLIL classes.

- Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary (with audio)
- The Visual Dictionary
- Internet Picture Dictionary (in American English)
- Picture Dictionary (with pictures and definitions)

Online Colouring Page

Jens sent a link for a fun and easy colouring page for young learners. Go to http://thecolor.com/ There are lots of different topics and ideas :)

Slovenia - March 2009

Wonderful 'road trip' training tour around Slovenia with Irena. Off to IATEFL Slovenia on Friday :)

Poland 2009

Wonderful trip around Poland :) Thanks to Ewa P. , Ewa R. and the OUP teams for being such great 'hosts' :)
(Visited Szczecin, Koszalin, Olsztyn, Gdansk, Sopot, Torun, Bydgosczcz, Warsaw, Lublin, Rzeszow and Krakow)

Graded Non-Fiction Sites

Here are a couple of pages from Pearson which feature graded non-fiction information for Maths, PE, Science and History. There are also games and quizzes :)
FACT MONSTER
INFOPLEASE

EGYPT January 2009 - AUC Conference and School Visits

Magnificent week in Egypt!!! Many thanks to Hassan and his team for taking such great care of me and for organising things so well!

Here are some phonics links for teachers:
BBC Words and Pictures
Clifford Storybooks and Games
Phonics Article for Teachers

Talks and Workshops 2009

• CEP Algeciras - "Project Work and Communication Activities for CLIL" - Los Barrios (November 2009)
• CEP Lebrija - "Project Work and CLIL", "Stories for CLIL" - Lebrija/Utrera (November 2009)
• BULGARIA (Sofia) - "Language and Literacy for Little Ones" (OUP Day) (October 2009)
  
• CFIE Ponferrada - "CLIL in Secondary School" with teachers and students from IES Alvaro de Medaña. (October 2009)
  
• TURKEY (Izmir, Istanbul (ISTEK/TED), Ankara) Incredible English and Story Fun with Little Ones (September 2009)
  
• Pre-Universitaria (Sevilla) - Preparing for PAU Exams (September/November 2009)
  
• OTA Brazil (Porto Alegre, Recife, Rio de Janeiro) (July 2009)
  
• Brazil - ACBEU Conference, Salvador da Bahia (july 2009)
  
• CPR Mallorca - CLIL course (20 hours) - team taught with Patti Trimborn and Tim Herdon (June 2009)
  
• CPR Santander - "Getting them Going with Grammar Games", "Practical Ideas for CLIL" (6 hours) (May 2009)
  
• Switzerland (Bern) "Bringing the Real World into the Classroom", "Great Minds Don't Think Alike" - (May 2009)
  
• OUP Spain (Valencia) - "Suprisingly Easy Cross-Curricular Activities", (May 2009)
  
• OUP Spain (Madrid) - "ICT for CLIL", "Practical Activities for CLIL", (May 2009)
  
• BELL INTERNATIONAL (Aldeaduero, Spain) "CLIL for Primary Teachers" (20 hours) (May 2009)
  
• EGYPT (Alexandria and Cairo) "Phonics" and "Literacy" (April 2009)
  
• TURKEY (OUP ELT DAY, Kusadasi) "Storytelling" (April 2009)
  
• UPO (Universidad de Pablo Olavide) - visiting professor on Masters in Bilingual Education Programme (online course and 'face to face' classes) - "Lesson Planning for CLIL" (12 hours) (March 2009)
  
• SLOVENIA - "Happiness in the Classroom is....."; IATEFL: "Bringing the Real World into the Classroom". (March 2009)
  
• POLAND - "Happiness in the Classroom is..." (February/March 2009)
  
• EGYPT - AUC Conference (American University Cairo) and school visits. "Language and Literacy for Little Ones", "Friendly First Steps in English", "First Steps in Using Phonics" - Jan. 2009
  
• CEP Sevilla - CLIL training course at CP San Jacinto - Jan. 2009
  
• CEP Córdoba - CLIL training at IES Fidiana - Jan. 2009
• SAFA Schools - In-house training for primary school teachers - January - March 2009

A couple of CLIL links

Music
Physics Powerpoints
Maths: sequences and series
Talking about Art
Physical Education
Technology

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.

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

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 :)

Trip to Serbia

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

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)

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

Great race! Video of the event HERE.