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April Fool’s Day In Artistic Lies

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This quote by Pablo Picaso is a perfect match to the Day!

Celebrate the annual tradition of April Fools’ Day in a completely different way. Instead of playing practical jokes on each other, explore how “lies” and deception can create art, op art! Op art is short for ‘optical art’. The word optical is used to describe things that relate to how we see. Op art works like an optical Illusion. Artists use shapes, colours and patterns in special ways to create images that look as if they are moving, curving or blurring. When looking at Op art, our brain is deceived into believing a complete lie! The Op art movement was inspired by advances in computing, aerospace, and television in the 60’s.

Find a selection of Op art worksheets below to get creative and talk about shapes, lines and the feelings you receive. A list of descriptive words to critique art may come handy!

Op Art Worksheets at bonlacfoods.com

Op Art Worksheets and Optical Illusions at mindgearlabs.com

Op Art in Steps at tanaallen.weebly.com

Op Art inspired by Vasarely at woojr.com

Back to School Activities and Motivation

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Browsing around for new school year first day ideas, I came upon some activities that would be interesting to try out. I also found some classroom posters that are really cool. So here they are:

1] TeamExercises is a youtube channel full of team games that can be used throughout the school year. You can absolutely find a game to start the day!

2] A first day lesson proposal that uses poetry and can match all levels.

3] Just a reminder for Categories, the classic vocabulary game that most students love playing and can be adapted to match a first day by asking for classroom objects or school subjects or school routine verbs!

4] Free download colourful icebreakers along with suggestions on how to use them.

5] 10 Motivational Posters for Your Classroom to brighten up the space and also generate discussion about classroom rules and moods!

6] Finally, an article on how to be kind to ESL learners!

If crafting sounds as a more appealing first day activity, here’s an older entry with some ideas: last-minute-new-school-year-crafts

Salad Decoration: Know Your Fruit And Vegetables!

Photo: www.hellowonderful.co/post/8-CREATIVE-WAYS-TO-GET-KIDS-TO-EAT-SALAD

Summer indulges us in fruits and vegetables inspiring nutritious creativity! Either for a party or our personal pleasure, salads can be refreshing not only to our palate but eyes, too. Have a look at this collection of what I think easy and impressive salad decoration ideas along with their instructions.

Photo: www.savvymom.ca/index.php/partysavvy/easter-party/4184/food

Beginner or not, revise and play with some fruit and vegetables vocabulary with the following resources.

photo: www.simplifylivelove.com/easy-summer-fruit-snack/

GAMES

Listening matching game at digitaldialects.com

Fruits Listening Memory Game and  Vegetables Listening Memory Game at eslgamesworld.com

Fruits crossword puzzle and Vegetables crossword puzzle at iteslj.org

Choose the kind of word game you like at manythings.org for fruit and vegetables

QUIZZES

Vegetables vocabulary quiz at englishmedialab.com

Comprehension exercises at tolearnenglish.com and a4esl.org

Fruit listening quizzes and Vegetables listening quizzes at 123listening.com

Two Poems About Rain

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Rain In Summer

How beautiful is the rain!
After the dust and heat,
In the broad and fiery street,
In the narrow lane,
How beautiful is the rain!
How it clatters along the roofs
Like the tramp of hoofs!
How it gushes and struggles out
From the throat of the overflowing spout!
Across the window-pane
It pours and pours;
And swift and wide,
With a muddy tide,
Like a river down the gutter roars
The rain, the welcome rain!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

April Rain Song

Let the rain kiss you.
Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops.
Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
The rain makes still pools on the sidewalk.
The rain makes running pools in the gutter.
The rain plays a little sleep-song on our roof at night –
And I love the rain.

Langston Hughes (1902-1967)

Read the poems. List all the verbs that the poets use for the rain. Describe the images of the rain in each poem. Are there any similes in the poems? Compare the two poems: how are they similar/different? What feelings do you get from them?

You can copy these poems on a template or write your own and create some art. Get inspired!

Basketball Shape Poem

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What Is Your Pet Saying?

Can you interprete your pet’s body language? Test your knowledge with two cute posters designed by artist and animator Lili Chin of doggiedrawings.net, which you can download for free here together with other interesting posters.

Can you describe when your pet shows such behaviour? Do you have similar feelings? When do you feel like that? Use the following starters to explain:

  1. My cat/dog   is/looks/feels   stressed    when/every time…
  2. I usually   am/feel    stressed     when/every time…

Happy Easter Wishes and Jokes

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May this Easter bring fresh, hopeful blessings to our hearts!

What do you usually wish at Easter time? Traditional or funny here’s a list of Easter wishes and greetings.

Jokes and riddles are always fun to read. How many can you answer? Challenge your friends or students with these printable Easter jokes.

Q. What do you call a rabbit with fleas?

A. Bugs Bunny!

Q. What kind of music do bunnies like?

A. Hip Hop.

Q. Why didn’t the bunny hop?

A. No bunny knows.

Q. Why shouldn’t you tell an Easter egg a joke?

A. It might crack up!

Q. What did the Easter Bunny say to the carrot?

A. “It’s been nice gnawing you!”

Q. How does the Easter Bunny stay fit?

A. Eggs-ercise and hare-robics! 

Q.How do you know carrots are good for your eyes?

A.Have you ever seen a rabbit wearing glasses?

 

photo from http://thegraphicsfairy.com/

 

Model Holiday Postcard and Worksheet for Elementary EFL Students-Υπόδειγμα Κάρτας Διακοπών και Φύλλο Εργασίας για την Ε Δημοτικού

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Working in Primary Education last year gave me the chance to create various worksheets which I’d like to share in the hope they will help more students and teachers out there. 

The worksheet I developed is based on the Coursebook that Greek students follow in Grade E. There is a model postcard text providing a few phrase choices and a lined space where students can write their own postcard. 

I hope you’ll find the Model Holiday Postcard and Worksheet to be as useful a resource as I did!  If this is the case, please share the link back to my site rather than give the document away. Happy postcard writing!

 

Merry Christmas With Mr Bean-Lesson Plan and Worksheet

Are you looking for a fun way to introduce some seasonal vocabulary, customs and activities to spend this year’s last school day? Well, how about watching a Mr Bean episode with your class? That’s what I did last year with my Grade 6 pupils and it was great success because it seems they are never bored with Mr Bean. Moreover, they were really motivated to do the worksheet activities since they all enjoyed the story.

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Weekly Progress Report In EFL-Εβδομαδιαία Ενημέρωση Προόδου Για EFL

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Here’s a weekly-progress-report template I created and used with both students and parents last year. This template was especially designed for students with problematic performance, because I needed to record and monitor the student’s specific tactics and behaviour in every class. I didn’t want to just tick on ready-made progress reports, but rather describe the exact performance.

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