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"Classmade"- Scrabble

8/3/2013

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"Classmade"- Scrabble
1. Ask your students to sit down in pairs. If you are working with an odd number of students, three students will sit together.
2. Provide your students with a grid.
3.To decide who goes first, students will have to make an addition of the number of letters of their name and surname. The one with the highest number will start.
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4. The first student will write one word in the grid. Each letter must fit in each square. The word may be placed either horizontally or vertically, but not diagonally.
5. If both players agree with the spelling of the word, the student who placed the that word will get as many points as letters the word has. Students can use a table like the one below or draw one themselves to keep the score updated. If they are not sure about the spelling of a word, they may use a dictionary to check it.
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VARIATION: You can provide your students with this alternative grid. Depending on the color of the square where they write the letter, they will have the possibility of doubling or tripling the points for that letter, as well as doubling the points of the word.
FOLLOW UP: Once your students have finished playing, ask them to fill in each square that is left with a random letter. When all the grid is full of letters, each pair will exchange their grid with another pair's grid. Now the scrabble has turned into a wordsearch!
6. Students will take turns to play. If a student can't think of a word in around 30 seconds, he or she will miss his or her turn.
7. When there is not more space in the grid or students can't think of more words, they will add up all the points. 
8. The student who gets more points will win.
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Learning English using your favorite songs

3/3/2013

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Several months ago I discovered a great website called Lyrics Training that can be use with ESL students to learn English. Lyrics Training is a web application that allows you to read and listen to the lyrics from music videos and can be used as a fun and interactive way for language teachers and trainers to introduce new vocabulary and grammar to their students in a classroom setting. Lyrics Training allow students to fill in the lyrics as they go along, and the difficulty level they choose decides how many words in a sentence are missing and they must fill in. This online language tool in particularly useful for students of foreign languages who want a fun and entertaining way to learn the correct pronunciation of words and it will improve their listening skills as students must identify words form a song.
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Before starting to play, players will need to select the game mode. The options are "beginner, intermediate, and expert". The difference among them is the number of blanks that have to be filled. Those students who are slow at typing or who have lower listening skills may choose the "beginner" level first, if they don't want to stop the song every 5 seconds. It is a good idea to repeat the song but at a higher level each time. Songs are also classified according to their difficulty in "easy, medium, and hard". 
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    My name is Beatriz Paternain. I am an ESL specialist who graduated in 2012 with a Master's of Education in TESOL and World Languages Education from the University of Georgia

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