Macmillan Children's Dictionary

Macmillan Children's Dictionary
By Carolyn Barraclough | Macmillan ELT (2001) | ISBN: 0333953037
PDF | English | 14.1 MB | 96 pages

I know that a lot of teachers are working with kids right know, so, I will share with you this eBook, even if you are not working with children but you want to learn in a graphical way more vocabulary. A greatly illustrated photographic dictionary with over 800 words and pictures. It includes British and American vocabulary and spelling, as well as a range of graded reading, writing and speaking activities.

Enjoy it and send me your comments.

Link:
http://cid-e57ad46b7956f5a2.office.live.com/self.aspx/eBooks/Macmillan%20Children^4s%20Dictionary.pdf

Organize your classes (pt 1) Technology

The people that know me, know that I love teaching, but I hate paperwork, administrative tasks and non-teaching things in general, but sadly all paperwork comes with the territory, therefore, I have tried to organized my classes to have fewer problems when the administrative work comes, so here are my tips:

1. Use technology, when technology is used properly nothing can go wrong:

a) Plan you classes using a computer and make your own format with all the necessary information required in the class

b) Use USBs and spaces like skydrive or google documents to store important files

c) Scan documents or activities with pictures, drawings or similar characteristics or re-do them if they are only words (using a new and fresh format)

d) If you have some topics or subjects that you use frequently, do a powerpoint presentation and if you don't have a projector the day you will use it, you can easily print it to be handed out.

e) Always innovate, with today's technologies many things can be different, better, improved, just worry a little more to learn new ways.

NOTE: DO NOT forget the rule # 1, BACK UP everything, find a good portable HD, USB or DVDs, but BACK UP CONSTANTLY!! losing your ALL your files is like being in hell, time is money and lost files is like losing time, money and a piece of your mind!!!

Procrastination

I found some very good tips about avoiding procrastination, and the summary is this:

If you want to actually succeed in life, stop relying on your future self to take care of things. Now.

If you’re in debt and want to fix it, start fixing it now.

If you’re overweight, start eating better and exercising now.

If you’re not saving for retirement, set up retirement savings now.

If you want to get household tasks done, do them now.

Don’t find excuses to not do them because you want to do something “fun” today. There will always be something fun to do, which means there will always be a reason to avoid making the hard changes.

If you won’t make the change, your future self certainly won’t, either. By skipping out now, you’re telling your future self that not doing it is just fine.

Are you going to do something today, or are you going to give you and your future self permission to never actually get around to it?

LI 2nd Generation

Ok, so, another year has passed and the second LI generation is about to graduate, and I have mixed feelings about it, because I'm happy for each one of them, I saw them struggling with UANE, with coordinators, with teachers and among themselves, now they are in the summit of their studies, they are about to become Licenciad@s, but at the same time, I'm sad because they will leave a huge void in the school, I will not see them walking in the school anymore, 4 years in my life are a lot, so they will be missed, and they will always be in my mind and in my heart, cheers my Muchachas and Mr Neto¡¡ Be all you can be, and do all you can do

Atte.

Memo

Teachers Day

We had a little dinner at UANE yesterday, congratulation to my fellow teachers, not only Languages teachers, but also to the ones in other careers, great effort we do, sweat and sleepless nights, but the rewards we have are also great, hugs to all my peeps¡¡

Legion (homework)

After some problems, the file is finally uploaded, well, here you have the link to download it:

http://cid-e57ad46b7956f5a2.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Activities/Legion.docx

If you need more info about the movie, you can go to the imdb link to get it:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1038686/

Atte.

Memo

Cambridge Course in UANE

Last Saturday April 17th we had a course from Cambridge University Press given by Patricia Quintana, this course was related to some existing teaching methods and approaches, we tackle some of them really quick:

Grammar-Translation Approach
Direct Approach
Reading Approach
Audiolingual Method
Community Language Learning
The Silent Way
Communicative Approach--Functional-Notional
Total Physical Response

If you want to find more about them, go to this link (very basic explanation):

http://edweb.sdsu.edu/people/jmora/almmethods.htm