Speaking of Speaking (and Listening)
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Google has alerted me to the fact that October 24 is United Nations Day! What could be better than to celebrate UN Day with your multiculti students? This is a fabulous opportunity to practice those TBLT tasks in speaking, listening, reading and writing that we have been studying!
Speaking and Listening
In preparation for the big day, the prolific and timely Larry Ferlazzo has come through (again!) with on-the-mark resources for ELLs.
Speaking and listening highlights of Ferlazzo's post include this ESL Holiday lesson on United Nations Day, which provides audio and transcript with accompanying listening activities! You can download the MP3 and the student activity PDF. Use it in class or as a flipped lesson.
In the same vein, Heads Up English is also offering a rich listening and learning activity for UN Day with downloadable audio and student activities for the upper-intermediate learner. Great for blended learning! Embed it in your site!
Ferlazzo never disappoints. He provides several YouTube videos to celebrate the day. With captions turned on, the United Nations for Kids-Episode 1 and Episode 2 are particularly useful media vehicles to prompt discussions with younger students. How do you think the UN has changed your life? What might be different if the United Nations never existed? How do you think the UN has changed the world? What does it take to get that many people to work together? How do they communicate?
One video not to miss is the uber professional and poignant Fanfare for all Peoples--70th anniversary film for UN, produced, of course, by the UN. Appropriate for all audiences (although the youngsters would need some scaffolding), it is visually stunning and narrated in a multitude of languages with English captions available. You could go a little deeper with older kids and more advanced L2 students with this one and have them discuss controversial issues. That should be interesting!
Check it out! Let me know what you think and how you are using it!
In the same vein, Heads Up English is also offering a rich listening and learning activity for UN Day with downloadable audio and student activities for the upper-intermediate learner. Great for blended learning! Embed it in your site!
Ferlazzo never disappoints. He provides several YouTube videos to celebrate the day. With captions turned on, the United Nations for Kids-Episode 1 and Episode 2 are particularly useful media vehicles to prompt discussions with younger students. How do you think the UN has changed your life? What might be different if the United Nations never existed? How do you think the UN has changed the world? What does it take to get that many people to work together? How do they communicate?
And finally... Synth
This one speaks for itself. (Get it? ;-))
Check it out! Let me know what you think and how you are using it!
This podcast is most enlightening. Organized and extremely helpful. Great education tool.
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