My Special Corner!

  Hello everyone!!  Today I want to tell you my experience using TimeToast.  TimeToast is a tool to create online time lines. I think it is a great way to work some topics with students because using time lines children learn in a more visual and organized form. So, it is easy for them to retain and internalise new ideas.  As the last Friday was the Book Day, I use this app to work on different topics related to that. I am going to explain how I organize this Friday lesson: Firstly, I told the students what day was and why we celebrate that. Then, I showed the webpage (TimeToast) and explained the fucntioning to them. After, that I made groups of three or four and gave to them a piece of paper with different information. For example, some of them had important authors information and other had information about significant books.  What they had to do was reading the information, underlining the key ideas or words and searching for the words they didn't understan...

Reading is, for me, an essential activity.  It's an enriching hobby that we can enjoy from a very early age.  It's a time for ourselves and a possibility to imagine other types of living. It's something magic that everyone has to enjoy.  Personally, my reading habits have changed over the years. When I was a child, I spent a lot of time reading. I liked going to the library, changing books with my friends, going to the bookshop and buying the last book from my favourite books collection... Now, as adult, I have less free time for my hobbies but I always try to find time for reading even if it is five minutes at night. Regarding my reading interests, I prefer reading funny novels with crazy and love adventures, but I also like historical novels. I usually read in Spanish because it is easier for me and if I am tired and I want to relax, I don't take foreign language books because it means an extra effort since I have to be more concentrate; but I sometimes read English o...

  Hello everyone!!  I've created this blog to share everything I consider interesting for teaching and learning English in primary school.  So, for writing my first blog post, these are three webs from where I take ideas for my English lessons:  1.  https://es.liveworksheets.com/   (It's a fantastic page in which you can create your own worksheets and you can also look for worksheets that are already made.) 2.  https://www.pinterest.es/ (It's an amazing web where you can find and share all type of resources: worksheets, crafts, groups activities...) 3.  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8eJxPzmvTb12v7LlZUJcLQ (It's a youtube channel with a great variety of English videos such as sciences, history, language...) I hope you enjoy them!!  See you soon!