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Introductory games for French, English, Spanish or German tutors
For language lessons, it is advisable to get acquainted informally for half an hour through a game before the substantive start. That immediately broke the ice. In this article you will find, in addition to the Dutch version of the …
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Literary reading skill: Evaluation Rubric
Evaluation rubric in Excel for literary reading skills such as for a book review.
Evaluates the components:
- personal experience,
- interpretation,
- judgement,
- analysis,
- text level on different parameters.
The end result is a score out of 10, with good …
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Motivating students to learn a language
Do you know it? Students who are timid or anxious to speak in front of the class. How can we help these students?
This is possible through the use of technology such as the iPad.
The goal is not to use an iPad, but how do we encourage students to …
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Qué hiciste?: Pretérito perfecto simple & indefinido
Homework via BookWidgets where students practice pronunciation and grammatical knowledge of the pretérito perfecto simple / indefinido. They have to answer the questions "What did you do yesterday?" and 'What did you do last …
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Rubrics of one: Evaluation sheets writing skills
Evaluation sheets in the form of rubrics of one based on the CEFR (level A1 to C1) for writing assignments in a foreign language or Dutch as a second language.
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Rubric of one: Evaluation tokens for monologue
Evaluation sheets in the form of rubrics of one based on the CEFR (level A1 to C1) for speaking assignments in a foreign language.
You indicate what the student is doing well and what still needs to be done.
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Rubric of one: Oral interaction evaluation sheets
Evaluation sheets in the form of rubrics of one based on the CEFR (level A1 to C1) for dialogues in a foreign language.
You indicate what the student is doing well and what still needs to be done.
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Podcasts in the classroom
Online article about how to use podcasts in the classroom and examples of some interesting ones to follow.
Widely applicable, not only for English teachers.
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Boost your foreign languages with Netflix
Blog post explaining how Language Learning with Netflix works.
Via this extension you can play subtitles on Netflix in two languages in a Chrome browser and look up vocabulary in a foreign language.
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Overall assessment of written texts: Decision Grid
Your students wrote a text in English, French, German ... and now you have to give points. Annex a concise decision tree that this is useful.
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