TIMETOAST A GOOD TOOL FOR YOUR ENGLISH LESSONS!!

In order to celebrate Andalusia's festivity my students have created timelines of famous Andalusian people with the application Timetoast.

The learning objectives of the activity are that the students will be able to order life events of important Andalusian people, use of different verbal tenses, investigate and know about Andalusian culture, work in groups and use of new technologies and application.

Some of the advantages that I have observed by using Timetoast is that students have organised their groups, investigated and decided their characters and the application. It is an easy and very intuitive application, the indications are in English so they have used English language, it is very visual and it motivates students because it can include images. They have developed the digital competence, social and linguistic competence.

I have organised the activity in four sessions, the first one to explain students what they have to do, the evaluation of the activity and to show them how to register and use TimeToast. In that session they chose their team works and investigated different artists, at the end of the session they communicated the person they have chosen.
In the second session students have selected at least 6 different important events of Andalusian's life and started to make the timeline. In the third sessions they have finished and share with the teacher. In the fourth session they did the oral exposition to share with all the class their knowledge and we did a self evaluation.

The main problem was to register because with the free account is limited so you can't use all the resources. But for projects like this one it is not necessary to pay, it is enough.

Students' reaction was good because they are used to make timelines but in a traditional way, posters. New technologies are so motivating for them, at the end of the sessions they evaluated the project as a good one and they will like to repeat the activity.

I would like to change the topic and maybe to do it about English or American artists, writers, musicians and maybe to work individually.

TimeToast is a good tool that helped students to achieve:
 the development of the digital competence they have used internet, computers to have a good timeline.
to organise and work in teams, the development of the social competence is important.
to develop their imagination including images, choosing diffetent tools in the app
to select and sum up the most important events in someone's life.

In conclusion it is a very useful tool that I will choose to work in my class because students have learnt and enjoyed a lot and I can evaluate different key competences.

Here you can find some of my students' timelines:


https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/2191287    Juan Ramón Jiménez

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/2191274     Antonio Banderas

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/2184983     Luis Cernuda

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/2184987     Pablo Alborán

MY REFLECTION ON READING HABITS

Nowadays our reading habits have suffered a big transformation. If we take a look 10 years ago the topics and the way of reading were different. Not only with the digital books but also the kind of books.

In the different images we can observe people reading alone, adults teaching children, students in school but it seems that almost all of them enjoy reading their books (digitals or not). Some of them have chosen their books becaise it's for pleasure but others haven't because other person have done it. I suppose that some of them could be happy and enthusiastic about their readings and other just do it because they have to. Not always we enjoy in our readings but if we choose them normally it is about a topic that is relevant for us.

In the second photograph I can feel like the adult woman because as teachers we should guide our students readings, I hope to choose something interesting for them.

Normally I choose different topics if I read in Spanish, something actual dynamic and actual. On the other hand in my second language I prefer reading classic literature. I have always read in paper and not e-books, I love reading and underlining my favourites parts.

When do I read? When I am on holidays!!! I would like to read everyday but when I am working I prefer reading books about teaching.

LEARN THE PAST SIMPLE WITH A NEW TECHNIQUE!!!

Dear students,

you can study the irregular verbs with a new technique, singing a song. Enjoy while learning grammar!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZzKe1BC2XU

ANIMALS!!

Vocabulary extra about animals!!

PAST SIMPLE AND PAST CONTINUOUS!!!!

Dear students,

here you can find some exercises to practise past simple and past continuous verbal tenses.

Good luck

Rocío

https://www.perfect-english-grammar.com/past-simple-past-continuous-exercise-1.html

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/tenses/simple_past_progressive.htm

https://www.esl-lounge.com/student/grammar/2g50-past-simple-or-past-continuous-worksheet.php

WELCOME!!!!

Hi to everyone,

My name is Rocío, I am an English teacher and I would like to post some activities to help my students to improve their English level. English language is my passion and I want to share all my knowledge with you. I hope I can help you!!

Best wishes 

Rocío