Those of you who have read Teaching & Learning Pronunciation would have probably watched Jennifer's video lessons on vowels, although I'm not sure if all of you had realised that there were more videos apart from the one I embedded. You can navigate through the playlist by clicking on the arrows to the left or to the right of the video ...

A lot of teachers shy away from teaching pronunciation or they think it isn't important for learners to know the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) symbols. No doubt they have their reasons, but I often get asked by students, 'But how do I learn how to pronounce a word?' They look up a word in a dictionary, and they see these ...

Here's a simple presentation on how to draw parallel lines using set squares. This can be downloaded from either Author Stream, Scribd or SlideShare. Thanks goes to José Alberto. drawing parallel lines using set square... See more presentations by acLiLtocLiMB | Upload your own PowerPoint presentations

A lot of Spanish learners (and, no doubt, other Latin learners, too) have problems pronouncing the vowels (a, e, i, o, u) correctly. Often, they either pronounce it as in their own language, or they confuse letters, especially e with i. Last year, José Alberto, from IES Los Tarahales, and I were working on a chart to hang on the classroom wall to ...

There are quite a few free websites which allow you to create your own activities, and one of those is Puzzlemaker. Here, you can make your own puzzles, such as Word Search, Double Puzzles, Maths Squares, Cryptograms and Mazes. The only price you pay is a link to the website at the end of the document. As an example, I've created a double puzzle ...

With the help of José Alberto of IES Los Tarahales, I've come up with this PowerPoint presentation and worksheet which will help initiate students into the world of cartoon art. There are four exercises, the first of which guides the student in making a character out of a stick figure in four steps. In the worksheet, the student is expected to ...

The colours most widely known as the primary colours are red, green and blue. These are used, for example, in CRT displays, to make a wide range of other colours. In pigments and dye mixing, such as printing, however, the primary colours used are cyan, magenta and yellow. Mixing any two primary colours gives you a secondary colour: cyan + magenta ...

Mathematicians are artists and artists sometimes need to be mathematicians, too! Here, we present (my thanks goes to the cooperation of José Alberto of IES Los Tarahales, who did most of the work, really) some common basic expressions. The file is, as usual, available in Scribd and SlideShare. How can you use it? One way is to cut them up along ...

Further to the post on how to draw a face, we now learn how to draw basic facial expressions, inspired by the styles of cartoonists. First, watch the presentation, then practise on the worksheet. As usual, you can download these from Slideshare (.ppsx) or Scribd: PowerPoint (.pps) and worksheet. Faces: Drawing Basic Expressions View More ...

A picture paints a thousand words, a good picture, that is. I don't know if this presentation will be judged as good, but it contains a fair number of wonderful pictures to illustrate the world of textures and patterns. Be warned: this PowerPoint presentation is rather big (21 MB), but I hope you will agree that it's worth it. As usual, the ...