Holidasy & Travelling - quizzes, games, worksheets

Such a great site with a lot of neccessary and useful information, which are printable btw! See you soon! xoxo
HOLIDAYS&TRAVELLING

Interactive games for kids on *SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY* topic!

Enjoy fun science games for kids while learning more about science and technology. There's a range of free online activities to try with something for everyone whether you're interested in animals, plants, chemistry, biology, physics, space, magnets, electricity, forces, light, sounds, gases or other science related topics. Put yourself to the test by trying to complete as many of the interactive challenges as you can, the games start off easy but will be fully testing your technology skills and understanding of the science behind the game in no time.

Have fun learning online with these cool science games. It's free and easy to use so just scroll down the page, find a game you like the look of and give it a go!
SCIENCE KIDS

Worksheets on the *SHOPPING* topic

Hi, my dear friends! Today I have a new portion of interactive exercises on *SHOPPING* topic! 
It's will be more interesting for teachers, because there are different printable worksheets, audio/video exercises, vocabulary and much more interesting things.. Click the link to look at it!
SHOPPING

Exercices for kids on the *FAMILY* topic!

It's time to remember family members with my exercises! Wish you luck ♥

How to create a podcast?

Mornin', guys! Have a look at this video, maybe you want to create a podcast by yourself, it will be interesting to listen to you!☺

E-books as a form of ICT

Electronic books sound like a futuristic phenomenon or something from a sci-fi movie. 
The thought itself may even seem intimidating to those who still consider themselves to be computer illiterate. But the fact is, that E-books are creeping their way into our society and life, and how the public reacts to this technology may determine the future of written literature. It is not surprising therefore, that a great amount of attention, both positive and negative, has been placed around these books and what the technology could accomplish. My opinion is that E-books will slowly infiltrate society, eventually replacing much of the printed text as we begin to rely on the electronic medium for our literature and information.

Exercises on the topic *CLOTHES*

Hi, my dear readers! Today we are going to make interactive exercise on the topic CLOTHES! I hope you'll enjoy it! + as usual, i sent you one short and interesting video. Hug you!

Prepositions ☺

Hi, my dear friends! 

It's high time for you to recall/learn prepositions! 

MORE TIPS/LINKS FOR STUDENTS!

Hello! I have good news for you! I've found one more page with important information for students! Why? Because it's awesome links for you to study English on different topics at home! Enjoy!

Exerccises for kids on the topic *ENVIRONMENT. THE WEATHER*

Good evening! And welcome again! Glad to know that you like and appreciate my work. So, it's time for new exercises dedicated to the topic "environment" for the kids!

Let's teach new words together! Days of the week/months/seasons! The best is for children! ♥

TIPS/LINKS FOR STUDENTS!

New pieces of advice for you! Today it would be help for students. Homeschool Links will help you to improve English, and I'm sure it would be easier for you to look for some information, now you have it at one picture! ♥

Tips HOW TO PEZIFY YOUR POWER POINT ☺

Hi, everyone! I know that a lot of people have problems with PREZI, despite the fact that I’ve already shared with you video “how to create your own PREZI” and even have given your my own example, my lesson plan, made in PREZI. So to help and encourage people, who still use Power Point for presentation,

 I want to share tips

 HOW TO PEZIFY YOUR POWER POINT!

Starting from a template
When you create a prezi, you can choose from a number of reusable templates or a blank canvas. When you decide to use a template, you can edit everything you see on the canvas. You can also copy and paste content from other prezis or applications.
Navigating the canvas
Getting around your prezi canvas couldn’t be easier.
Zooming
This is a key feature of Prezi, so naturally we made it simple. You can zoom in and out by using your mouse’s scroll wheel or by clicking the + and - symbols on the right of your screen.
Panning
To move your prezi canvas left, right, up, or down, hold down the left button of your mouse and then move in the direction you want to go.
To get an overview of everything you've added so far (both in “Edit” and “Present” mode), use the Home button on the right hand side of your screen. You can find it just above the zoom + and - buttons. Clicking the Home button before you start making a prezi will also ensure that you're starting from a centered overview.
Adding text and images
Prezi currently supports the Roman alphabet and Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters. For information on changing the language, please click here. Select Insert from the top menu to start adding images from the web or your computer.
Getting to know the Transformation Tool
In Prezi, the Transformation Tool is your best friend. Once you add anything to your canvas, click on it once to bring up the Transformation Tool. Now you can move, size, and rotate your content any way you like.Click here for more on the transformation tool.
Framing your content
Frames are a signature part of Prezi and a great way to manage your content. They work like slides and can be used to group your ideas. Use frames to create a placeholder in your prezi and then add content to them. You can change the color, shape, size, and position of a frame, and once you add a frame to your prezi’s canvas, all the content inside it will move, size, and rotate to your desire.You can also use frames to add animation to your prezis.
Customizing your prezi
Use the “Customize” sidebar to set the colors and fonts of your prezi.You can also create branded Prezi themes by adding your exact company colors to the wizard. Pro, EDU Pro, Enjoy, and EDU Enjoy license holders can even add their own logo to a customized theme.
Inserting layouts
Prezi has created both single and multi-frame layouts ready for you to drag and drop right onto your canvas. Just click Insert from the top menu and then make your selection.
Adding symbols and shapes
Click Insert and then select the “Symbols and shapes” icon at the top of the screen to add shapes, lines, arrows, and more to your prezi.
Insert rectangles, circles, and triangles to frame your content, or add symbols or drawings from a huge library to further enhance your prezi
Adding URLs to your prezi
To put live links into your prezi, copy and paste the desired URL into a text box. Then click away from the text box and your link will become active (you will see it automatically underline).
Editing your path
When presenting your ideas, it helps to have a clear narrative that takes your audience through your prezi. With the Left Sidebar, you can create a journey from one idea to the next. Edit your path and its points in “Edit” mode and take your audience along that path in “Present” mode.
To set your path, click the Edit Path on the left side of screen. Then click on the objects in your prezi canvas in the order you wish them to appear.
You can also use the sidebar to rearrange and delete path points or to zoom to a specific path point.
“Borrowing” from other prezis
On the Prezi Explore page you can find loads of great prezis from which you can “borrow” content, animations, or even sound effects. Reusing content is a great way to get started with Prezi and allows you to share your ideas more effectively.
To use content from another prezi, first select a reusable prezi you like from the Explore page, then click Save a Copy to place a copy of the prezi in your own prezi library. From here you can open the prezi and start adding your own content. Alternatively, cut and paste the elements you like into one of your own prezis.

New words for you!

Talking about our physical health we always mention our body! So recommened you to learn by heart words on the topic "MY BODY"! It's easy if you'll try! I also want to share videos for you, as well. Remember - studying is fun! 

•• GOOGLE TIPS ••

An now.. tips for youth! 

Enjoy the benefits of the greatest search engine! 

Heartfelt Advice for Teachers from Students

I have found such a moving and important video! Can't stop thinking about these charming kids. Have a look and you! I think it would be iseful for you...

Fresh pieces of advice for teachers!

Hi, my dear friends! I'm glad to present you 3 really useful tips for teachers in classrooms. I have been using them by myself, so I want to ensure you that these pieces of advice are just great! :) Good luck with your classes! I'm sure everything will be fine! See you soon! 

School, school, school..

Hi, everyone! Today  I want to share with you new words related to school! These exercise are free to use. You can print it or just make them online. I'll hope this information will be educational and interesting for you! Enjoy!;)
Worksheet 1
Worksheet 2

And, of course, an awesome video to recall the new words!

7 Tips for Learning English through Film and Movies

1. Choose an interesting movie. This probably sounds obvious, but if you choose a boring movie, you’ll be bored. And if you’re bored, it will be difficult to pay attention…for more than one and a half hours!

I remember when I was a child, I had to watch hours and hours of really old movies like “Singing in  Rain”, “Mary Poppins” to learn English. If you don’t know these films – you’re welcome to check them up – they’re really old! I didn’t exactly hate them, but I didn’t feel excited at all when watching these films.

And because of that, I highly recommend you choose movies you like. To do this, you can go to a website called Rotten Tomatoes, which is a website with many great critics and reviews on many tens of thousands of movies.

2. Select a movie that matches your current English level. For example, for beginners in English, I usually recommend you learn English through animations.  The main reason is because the English is usually very friendly, nice and easy to understand.

On the other hand, if you try to watch something like “Romeo and Juliet”, you will be very confused. Shakespearian English (which is English used many centuries ago) is very difficult to understand on screen, even for advanced English learners.

3. Bring your dictionary. Maybe I’ll add point 3.5 too – choose a film with subtitles! So when you hear a word you’re interested in, check it up! Because you went through the trouble to understand it…you’ll be able to remember that word for a long time too!

4. Repeat short phrases! Some times, you might hear something cool in the movie. For example, some short phrases, or slang like, “hell yeah!”, or “sure thing”, or “you betcha!” that are commonly used in English. If you like how it sounds, it really helps to repeat it! After saying it out loud a while, you will be able to remember it for a longer time! It’s a great and enjoyable exercise – one of my personal favourites.

5. Without subtitles. I know it can be really challenging to watch a film in a foreign language without subtitles. So here’s my recommendation. When you watch a film the first time, just turn on subtitles. But if you get the chance to watch it a second time, try turning off subtitles.

This way, you already know the story from the first time you watched it. And this time, you can try listening to some individual words that you might have checked up last time. Or you might try to see how much you can understand the film without subtitles.

6. VLC player. This is actually a video player I recommend for watching films on your computer. This is one of my favourite tools. Most people use it just to watch movies, but I use it a little differently.  (And if you don’t have it, you can download VLC player, it’s free.)

Here’s what I do – if you download a movie online, and you play it, you know how you don’t understand English sometimes? VLC Player allows you to play back movies at half speed or quarter speed. So if there are parts you don’t understand, you can play these back at a slower speed and try again! It’s very helpful to practice your listening.

7. It’s okay to miss words…just let it go. Last of all, remember what we said in the start? Watching movies should be fun…so if you miss a word, a phrase, or even many sentences, that’s okay! Just follow along the subtitles and learn that way. Don’t make yourself feel bad…watching films is supposed to be fun!

What are ICTs ?

Recently I've got a lot of questions on my post about ICT. So, I decided to discuss this topic a little bit. Here you have some advantages of using the ICT:)

What are ICTs?

The Board of Studies in its cross-curriculum content requirements has embedded ICT into the English syllabus as follows:

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) content in English enables students to develop and apply skills, knowledge and understanding of ICT in their composing, responding and presenting, and as part of the imaginative and critical thinking they undertake in English. The ICT content has been incorporated into the content of this syllabus to ensure that all students have the opportunity to become competent, discriminating and creative users of ICT and are better able to demonstrate the syllabus outcomes of English through the effective use of ICT.

Skills include:

• importing images and graphics into folders and documents
• formatting documents
• desktop publishing using graphics in a multimedia presentation or webpage, evaluating appropriate layout and design principles for a specific audience.

The use of ICT in the English classroom extends beyond its motivational value to address key outcomes of the syllabus, and allow students to become competent users as well as consumers in English.

Research suggests that incorporating ICT into the English curriculum can:

• improve writing and reading skills
• develop speaking and listening skills
• support collaboration, creativity, independent learning and reflection (Becta,2003a, Becta,2003b, VTC,2003) (cited in Becta 2005)

As an interactive and collaborative medium, ICT allows responding, composing, and publication to be easily shared and offers students the opportunity to explore the language of texts more creatively and develop as speakers, writers and readers for an ever widening range of purposes and audiences. ICT can enable students to:

• access information and respond to a widening range of texts
• organise and present information in a variety of forms
• broaden the range of audiences for their work
• compose a widening range of texts for a broad range of purposes
• compose for real audiences. ICT can support them in their choice of genre for audience and purpose.
• identify key characteristics and features of text
• develop understanding of language and critical literacy (Becta,2006,ICT in the Curriculum)

A handout on *health* topic

Hi guys and welcome back! Today I want to give you a handout about health.

What is that?

A handout is a folder or circular of information for free distribution.

Talking about health..Do you know how to live to be 100?

I want to share you facts about our heart and how to improve it's work. I hope these tips will be educational for you:)

Stay positive and enjoy the benefits of being healthy!

How to create a presi?

Welcome back! 

I've got a lot of questions about my presentation in PRESI, so I want to share with you a tutorial. I think it will be interesting and educational for you! As for me, PRESI is really convenient and easy way to create a presentation or to prepare a lesson plan, as I did.

Enjoy:)

ICT in the English Classroom

 

Interactive activities on "Nature and environment" topic for pupils of 9-11th grades!

And also I’d like to recommend a website “National Library of Medicine. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH STUDENT PORTAL” with interactive activities on “Nature and environment” topic for children of 9-11^th grades. So, there are 4 subjects: air pollution, chemicals, climate change and water pollution. I think that is the best website, containing a lot of educational, well-compound and interesting games! There you can also find links to presentations, some videos and even experiments!

Try it and have a nice day! 

Games and exrcises!

Interactive exercise on "Food" topic for kids!

Good morning, guys! Today is a perfect day to practice your English! I want to share with you such an interesting interactive exercise ;)

 Practice Food and Drinks ESL English Vocabulary using this Catapult Game. This game is also excellent for classroom teaching. Teachers can engage students in a classroom vocabulary review for elementary ESL, EFL Learners. It can be used to energize a dull class, to review work that was done or simply as a reward for good classroom work. Fun activity to practice words like - chocolate, pizza,eat, ice cream and more. It is especially useful for teaching ESL Young Learners and Beginners.

 Have fun teaching and learning English!

Exercise!

Presentation in PRESI

Welcome again to my blog! 

Today I had the experience in PRESI program. I am strongly recommended this program. It is free, useful and really interesting! Try it!
Take a look at my presentation in PRESI, my lesson plan: EnjoyJ

My lesson plan in PRESI

Podcast. McCartney Unplugged!

Hello, my dear friends! 

Today I want to share you the podcast on The Beatles topic! My favorite episode 74: McCartney Unplugged!

In 1991, Paul McCartney performed on MTV's Unplugged and released a very successful and unique album of the concert. In this episode, they discuss the recording of the concert, the setlist, go through the tracks, and wonder why Paul hasn't played concerts like this since.

You can download it for ios or android. Hope you’ll enjoy it, as much as I did. So, here you are:

McCartney Unplugged!

Top 10 Energy Saving Tips for Students

“I don’t have any money!”

One of the major downsides of living with your mates in your own house or flat at Uni is the need to start paying energy bills for the first time. Unfortunately, electricity and gas really are that expensive and the more you pay for them, the less money you have to spend on books, pens and folders/kebabs, pints and curries (depending on your Uni experience). Here at TheGreenAge, we are all about energy efficiency and we have come up with our top 10 cheap and easy ways to help you keep those energy bills down.

1.   Turn your thermostat DOWN always does the trick!

2.    Turn off lights! REALLY SIMPLE but it makes a big difference!

3.   Microwaves sizzle food quickly and cheaply.

4.   Save water when you make the humble cuppa.

5.   Dishwashers are not JUST for decoration use them!

6.   Turn down the washing machine temperature.

7.   Using less hot water is always good

8.   Your boiler can have a holiday break too.

9.   Get yourself a cheap energy gadget.

10.           Always lookout for the best deal!

Tips for students

Hi, guys! Now I want to share with you tips for students! Being a student myself, I know how it difficult for us to concentrate on studying. It takes a lot of time and efforts to make our homework. Especially, it’s hard for us to wake up early in the morning in order to catch a bus in time. So, I hope that these pieces of advice and this video will help you and encourage you! Take your best shot!

1.Don’t allow technology to make you unaware of your surroundings

Everyone with headphones, a smartphone and an MP3 player knows – the minute you’re plugged in, you barely exist anymore! You stare at your phone, zoned out; not knowing what is going on around you. This, in essence, is exactly what you should be avoiding.

When you start to find yourself becoming unaware of what’s going on around you is the time you need to consider turning the music down, putting your phone away and opening your eyes to what’s happening.

The key to getting out of a potentially dangerous situation is to recognize it as such. This is nearly impossible if you aren’t even aware of the situations you’re walking into.

2.Never walk alone at night

Walking around alone and in the dark is basically asking for trouble. Sure, there are times that you need to get from point A to point B which may occur at night, but you should always abide by the buddy system so that, should something happen, you’re not on your own.

3.Utilize locks

While it’s easy to become relaxed in college life, there are some habits that should always remain standard. Locking your doors, especially when you’re alone or asleep, should be one of them.

Aside from allowing yourself to be vulnerable, it’s also much easier for theft to take place if you’re essentially providing easier access to burglars.

4.Carry some emergency cash

It’s good to have some cash on you at all times, just in case. Perhaps your credit card won’t work or your debit card gets lost. You never want to be stuck in a scary situation because you don’t have the necessary funds to get out of it as quickly as possible.

5.Locate the emergency system areas on campus

Most campuses have emergency call buttons or phones scattered throughout campus for students to utilize in the event of an emergency. Find out what your campuses system is and locate the areas in which the systems are placed. Should you ever find yourself in trouble, it will be much easier if you know where you can call for help.

6.Know your way around campus

In addition to paying attention to your surroundings; you should know your surroundings as well.

Take time to become familiar with campus landmarks and streets so that you are able to navigate your way around – or out of an area, should you need to.

7.Never stay at a party when your friend leaves

No, you don’t need to call it an early night just because one of your friends does. But, what you should do is ensure you always have a minimum of one person with you that you know (and know you can trust).

Being alone in a party setting isn’t smart – go home if you’re going to be alone because it is not worth the risk to stay – no matter how nice everyone there seems.

8.Avoid becoming inebriated and losing control

If you’re getting to the point that you don’t have control of yourself or your surroundings, you need to stop and think about the types of situations you’re putting yourself in.

It’s far too easy for others to take advantage of you or a situation if you can’t think or act rationally.

9.Always have emergency contacts on you or in your device

If you have a smartphone, program emergency numbers into it. It’s one of the first spots hospitals check if you’re admitted alone because they are able to bypass your pass code in order to access your contacts.

Additionally, list your important emergency contact numbers and information in your planner, if you carry one. Whatever items you have on a regular basis are good spots to keep emergency information.

10.Consider carrying pepper spray, a whistle or taking a self-defense course

The hope is certainly that you’d never need to make use of these defense mechanisms, however, having them with you can make a life-saving difference in harmful situations you otherwise might not be able to get out of.

Tips for teachers

        Welcome again! 
There are 10 useful tips for  
      teachers! Enjoy :)

Blogging as a career

Hello, guys!

Welcome to my blog! So, here is the video of charming Sarah Says about blogging. It was rather informal and interesting for me. Take a look at it! Have a nice day :)