Wednesday 29 April 2009

Activities for your blog

So far I have just been designing activities for you and I think it is time now for you to publish something of your own. Before you start, it may be a good idea to have a look at my blog and see what it is in it and check other blogs too.
I have made a list of activities for you to choose from and I have created two blogs, one to give you instructions and help you with technical problems, where you will find a step-by-step guide on how to create and customize your own blog. And one just for you to publish your work.

Ana's How to blog
Cyberstudents Intermediate

Visit first Anuskis' how to and you'll learn how to do things and get some ideas.
Then, talk to your partner and decide how you are going to plan your work. If you gave me your email address, I will soon send you an invitation to sign up on the blog and thus you will be able to publish your work.

Here you have the list of activities to choose from:

Cyberstudents Intermediate

List of links for Intermediate level

This is quite a thorough list of suitable links for Intermediate students of English. There are links to ESL sites and also links to sites with an interesting content, where you can find nice articles to read or games to play, and many other things.
The links to tests on the net is still missing. I hope I have time to do it some time soon.
I hope it's of good use to you!

List of top links for Intermediate level

Learning Guide Unit 2 Intermediate 2

As promised, here you have the learning guide for Unit 2. I would have liked to have time to prepare them all, but I'm afraid I'm not going to have time!
Well, here you are. I hope it's of any use to you!

Cyberstudents Intermediate

Saturday 25 April 2009

Treasure Hunts

Treasure Hunts are a kind of reading comprehension exercise, which normally consists of a list of links to different websites on a selected topic for you to visit and a set of questions for you to answer.
They are also called Scavenger Hunts and you will find plenty of them on the Internet. In this blog, you will find some, which I have specially designed for you (go to the Treasure hunts folder or to the reading section), but you can find some more at my old website. Here you have two links:

Nutrition Treasure Hunt

Natural Disasters' Treasure Hunt

Films that moved us (literally)

Would you like to know more about the country where The Lord of the Rings was shot?, if you've seen the film you will probably know that NZ has beautiful landscapes but what else do you know about this remote country?, do you know that it is the land of extreme sports?, that it is the birthplace of bungie-jumping? You don't know what bungie-jumping is?, then you really can't miss this site!
Browse through NZ's Official website and see if you can answer this questionnaire:

NZ Questionnaire