понедельник, 21 февраля 2011 г.

Current IT in ESL classes

You tube

The real benefit of YouTube is that it offers authentic examples of everyday English used by everyday people. YouTube give challenges as well. Students may enjoy watching these clips, but poor sound quality, pronunciation and slang can make these short videos even more difficult to understand. The  teachers can: 1)obtain free video content, 2) obtain enormous variety, 3) reproduce authentic language in the classroom, 4) access comprehensible input which is offered through videos. Teachers can also use Tube videos in an ELT classroom for various teaching such vocabulary, accents, pronunciations, voice modulation as well as teaching such English skills as listening, speaking, and writing.

Blog
It  is a frequently updated website that often resembles an online journal.
The Tutor Blog is created and run by the teacher of a class. The content of this blog type can be limited to syllabus, course information, homework, assignments, etc.
The Class Blog is a shared space, with teacher and students being able to create dialogue and discussion. It is best used as a collaborative discussion space.
The Learner Blog is the third type of blog. This type of Blog requires more time and attempt from the teacher to both create and moderate, but is perhaps the most rewarding.
There are several reasons for encouraging teachers to use blogs for creating ELT materials: 
 
- to provide extra reading practice for students.
- as online student learner journals that can be read by their peers.
 -to guide students to online resources appropriate for their level.
- to stimulate out-of-class discussion.
- to help build a closer relationship between students in large classes.

суббота, 19 февраля 2011 г.

Traditions on St.Valentine's Day

Love Spells
To discover you true love
Before you go to sleep put bay leaves on the corners of your pillow and one in the center
Close your eyes and repeat these words 7 times, counting up to seven between each repetition:
'Dear Guardian Angel, let me have what I so earnestly do crave
A Valentine imbued with love, who will both true and constant prove.'
Your true love should appear to you in a dream.


To attract love into your life
Using a thorn from a white rose bush, scratch the words:
'All my love come to me' 3 times on a white candle and light it.
Watch as the candle burns down, and picture your love coming to embrace you. When the candle burns down, collect the wax and wrap it up. You should soon receive all the love that this person has for you.

To bring your love to you
Light a red candle, hold a crystal near your heart, close your eyes and say 3 times:
'Let the love that I am seeking come into my life.'
Visualize your love bathed in white light and feel the energy flow into your heart. Imagine this light pouring from you into the crystal, then holding the crystal in both hands blow out the candle. 
Keep the crystal with you until your wish is fulfilled.


четверг, 17 февраля 2011 г.

A story to St. Valentine's day: Complicated and Simple Thing

They never looked at each other, they never even  thought about each other, they were shooted  along by metro everyday, their pale faces reflected  in perfectly cleaned windows. Every bench , every tree, every building had a touch of pretentious order and tidiness. 
'What a stupid thing, that love is !', she hemmed. ' The phenomenon was created for  those carefree ladies who have nothing to worry about, for somewhat outlandish ones'. It was one  of her variant  in the  list of answers to the question 'what the word 'love' means for you'. 'We are predators and survive only for our own personality. The only way of living is to eat your neighbour when he is not necessary for  you any more. We are in jungles of human fierceness.
'What a  nasty thing, that love is! Who has created that?', he growled. We have to be higher than everything in this world, and no 'feelings' will prevent us from this aim.
It lasted for forty years, their decline came immediately, the cynics were not prepared to the new state.
It happened one  autumn stormy night in a ramshackle small house. She was knitting a splendid jumper for her poodle. Suddenly somebody knocked the door. 'Please, help me', the stranger spoke in a hoarse voice. She took a double-barrelled gun and opened the door. She faced a terrible picture: the old men was standing with bleeding legs. She shrank back in horror. 'Please, help me', repeated he and lost consciousness. Something weird and unusual appeared in her soul. 'What could it be? Pity?', she mused upon. Somewhat divine powers directed her movings. She dragged him in and placed on the sofa, than bandaged him. Several hours passed and the wounded came to himself. As it turned out, he was an ex-banker and it was his  drunk partners who beat him up. The old man started  showing  his real personality, his vivid and vivacious soul.  A spinster could not realize why she was so fond of him, as through all her life she  never shown any sympathy to somebody, not to mention love at all.
 ' I was so secretive and foolish', he said one day. 'I waited your appearance   everyday at the metro station like a gulp of joy but I had no valour to talk to you. You were so unattainable'. She embraced him without saying a word. She still had no courage to open her soul.
Inference is never cancel  your nature,  otherwise  you will be deprived of the huge piece of happiness. 

My valentines

Just hold me tight
And say 'I never let you go',
And our love will be alright,
So, never covered with snow

You are my precious thing,
You are my sweetheart elf.
I will just always try to bring
To you, that endless love I have.

Be my beloved and be my dear,
And be the leading light for me.
So, now it is clear,
I just adore you, you can not see.



суббота, 12 февраля 2011 г.

How to Make Your Life Interesting


Being children we do not muse upon the problem of daily routine, but some years pass and this routine swallows us up rather rapidly. People are always inventing various original methods to make life interesting, amusing, and beautiful.
Starting your deliberate way you should remember the most sufficient key notion: everything must have its own aim. And in the process of gaining that goal human is the real master of creating interesting life.
The word 'interesting' does not combine only with amusement. You should associate it with  the widening of horizon. When a human being discovers new information about natural or human environment,  it does not give a bright flash in gloomy existence. But, of course, it depends on person.
You should be a humanist. Is not it pleasure to get a feedback for your help and respect ? 
You have to read and make something extraordinary, contribute to the development of our world.
If there is a possibility to visit different splendid places, just do it unhesitatingly. At the end of your life you will have something to remember. But, of course, vividness of existence does not include only travelling to foreign countries, as I am sure that a person can create interesting staff for him by his own.
To sum it up, every man has to keep in mind that the road appears when you walk. So, it is you duty,  to make it interesting, as we have the right  only for  one life.