This week has been really productive in terms of the tasks that we undertook and the websites that we explored. Among these, I especially liked http://www.lessonsonmovies.com/ and http://legacy.lclark.edu/~krauss/toppicks/toppicks.html . The former is a website that holds links to lots of tasks based on posters and trailers of well-known films, including vocabulary matching, gap filling and spelling practice. The latter provides many interesting and varied tasks for students at different levels of proficiency to practice listening, speaking, writing and other activities.
With respect to our final project, we have been prompted to identify a problem in our target class that we can address by means of web resources, which is of course at the very core of our project. I like the way Donna is guiding us to build it up step by step, lesson by lesson, allowing us sufficient time to think about the materials and the activities that will eventually be part of it.
Last but not least, the reviews of our posts and tasks made by our colleagues have been as encouraging and rewarding as usual, making the "lonely student syndrome" I mentioned to Donna at the beginning of the course pass by completely unnoticed.
Now, time to read my colleagues' blogs and find out about their experiences.
I agree with you that this week has been so productive with all the tasks. The links uou mentioned were great valso
ReplyDeleteHi Carlos,
ReplyDeleteI have already used the sources you mention in your blogpost, because I also like them. In case you and your students enjoy teaching / learning with movies, movie trailers and movie excerpts, there is also http://film-english.com/.
Hope you have a great week.
Greetings from Portugal,
Alex