Monday, 9 February 2015

Cockroaches and Ladybugs: Feed the Dingo - A Fun Game About a Desert Ecosyst...



Cockroaches and Ladybugs: Feed the Dingo - A Fun Game About a Desert Ecosyst...: Feed the Dingo is a fun game about the importance of creating and maintaining a balanced desert ecosystem. Students have to add animals ...

Cockroaches and Ladybugs: Video Gaming and Education



Cockroaches and Ladybugs: Video Gaming and Education: From www.wallstreetotc.com/ Is video gaming a passing fashion? Is it only useful at home for entertainment? Have video games a more impl...

Cockroaches and Ladybugs: The Times in Plain English


Cockroaches and Ladybugs: The Times in Plain English: I have just discovered this resource and it is simply GREAT! I've been trying to read English newspapers for a long time feeling a ...

Monday, 28 April 2014

Lateral Thinking Stories for the ESL Class

Cockroaches and Ladybugs: Lateral Thinking Stories for the ESL Class: What is lateral thinking?  In 1973 Edward De Bono developed the term “ Lateral Thinking ”. Lateral thinking involves looking at a situati...





In ESL, Lateral Thinking Puzzles are a great resource for thinking, speaking and writing because they are often strange situations which require an explanation.

Tuesday, 22 April 2014

Friday, 4 April 2014

Teaching English Creatively

Cockroaches and Ladybugs: Teaching English Creatively: 10 creative ways to teach English that deliver outstanding results is an article that Anna Warren published in The Guardian ...



As a ferver defender of project working and open curriculums, I really like the idea of teaching Language through arts: through painting, music composition, a film project, in role drama or sculpture, always having a real purpose in mind. I was happy to find such a clear article like this because some of the approaches are right now in my teaching portfolio.