Internet, net net...

Today at the 8th Technical Meeting at school, I could learn a lot of different things related to the teaching of English. I'm really fond of those kind of things because we can share all the theoretical and practical things we study and learn, and that motivates me a lot!

I've watched 2 lectures today about games and interesting websites we can use with our students. at the moment I'm trying a new one called xtranormal (great to create dialogs) I'm going to post it here any other day. But you can create yours too.

Well, that's nice to come back to the posts. See you around!

PS: Nice table isn't it?

Exam Period.

Yeah, they're like this!

The exam period has arrived where I work and sometimes I feel totally upset about some of my students who don't get good grades, but how come?
They're so good students during the classes, they answer every single question, they are the ones who like to read aloud, they're the ones who like to present their works first and... how come???
Well, maybe the best thing to do in a moment like that is to have a conversation with each one of them to know what happened. That's what I'm gonna do! (y)

See you people!

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

THIS IS A CLASSIC!
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Maybe here... Yeah, maybe here!

IMPORTANT TOOLS: HERE WE GOOOO!!!

I was a little upset thoughtful about my in vain struggle to make my students more independent during classes or when not in class. But I think I've overcome that for at least a while.

This is the reason I'm going to post some interesting websites here in my blog every now and then just to have a list of them in case someone would like to "try" those internet tools. I have like dozens of nice thing, but I'm starting with just a few of them. Maybe this is the place to put my site searches. Maybe here... Yeah, maybe here!

CLICK ON THE NAME OF THE WEBSITES TO VISIT THEM.

Essay Rater - Incredible tool that corrects your composition and gives you a score of your final draft.




Text-to-Speech - This great tool enables you to listen the pronunciation of the language you are learning with different voices, tones, pitches, genres, etc.



Wordia - This website provides video posts from users all over the word about the words in the dictionary.


Well, I continue this list any other day! See you!

Why keeping the idiot thing?

INTO IT?

I know I shouldn't do something meaningful in the Aslan's community at Orkut, so why do I?

Well, I thinki it's simply because I'd like to add something that is really relevant to that "place" which doesn't have anything that can improve or make students more effective on the study of the second language they are learning.

Everytime I upload an interesting website, or some clues on how to improve the students English, someone erases it as it was an unimportant thing or spam and I get really mad at it!

Maybe is my time not to be an IDIOT and look for a better "place" to upload the things I think are important and that can help in some way everybody who wants to become an English speaker in fact.

This is my point of view...

Traslating Machine

DOG BARKING TRANSLATOR

Something very surprising happened yesterday while I was at my friend's.

A cousin of mine who I don't talk for a long time popped up greeting me and saying those things we normally do when chatting to friends. I found that really strange, but the point didn't took long to arrive.

She asked me to translate an abstract from Portuguese to English, because she needed that to present a work in a congress and blah blah blah....

Okay I felt like not accepting at first, but then I realized she wanted me to do that for free and well as I'm someone who thinks we teachers have to value our profession I accepted that not saying that I'd ask for a payment for the job. I think she was all happy because I'd translate her paper but before saying good-bye I said: Alright, so it's 20 bucks, is that okay? In my opinion she felt a little embarrassed because she gave that "yellow" smile and said, it was okay.

When I got home and told this story to my mother she loved it, since my mother doesn't like my cousin very much. She thinks my cousin is very stuck up! Well, I must admit it's not only her that thinks so... hehehe