Simpsons' Home Matching exercise

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Pull and drag to form correct sentences.

The Simpsons' Home Interactive!

Week four: Design a lesson plan activity to make the students talk about the house after learning it or reviewing it with the Simpson Interactive home.
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Task 1:
Instruction: Click on the green arrows to and tour the house.While discovering the house answer the following questions:

1- How many rooms are there in The Simpsons house?
2- How do the Simpsons get to the second floor?
3- How many people live in The Simpsons house?

Task2:
Instruction: Tour the Simpsons rooms and cross out the wrong item:

1- In Bart's bedroom, there is a bed, a bookshelf, a lamp, an alarm clock and computer.
2- In Lisa's room, there is a telephone, a mirror, a bookshelf and a television.
3- In Maggie's room, there is a Cd player, a craddle, a bin, a window.
4- In the kitchen, there is a washing machine, a stove and fridge.
5- In the living room, there is an armchair, a television, a rug, a lamp, a picture.
6- In the family room there is a piano, a heater, a chiminey and a sofa.

Task3:
Instruction: Describ what the Simpsons are doing in the rooms:

1- Homer is .................
2- Bart is ..................
3- Lisa is ..............
4- Maggie is ...........

Task 4:
Instruction: Match the colors with the rooms:

pink, purple, blue
Maggie's room is .........
The kitchen is ..........
The family room is ........
Bart's room is ........

Task 5: Integrated writing/ Speaking:
Instruction: Based on the Simpsons activity write a paragraph about your dream house, include the location and type of the house, state how many rooms, what are they and describe the equipment in each room. To conclude your writing state if you like it or not and why?
You may need to use adjectives like : big, small, nice, lovely, modern, cosy, .....

Share with the whole class!

Homework: Draw your dream house.

Teachers and learners roles in integrating virtual or physical classroom!

The roles of learners and teachers in integrating virtual classrooms are interlinked!
The teachers act as monitors that guide the learning process. They monitor the setting and choose the material that the learners should work on. They provide feedback and assessment for the learners' performance and help build their knowledge.

The learners however interact with the material depending on the teachers'feedback to be able to demonstrate autonomy, creativity and contribute to global cultural interaction. They play a vital role in social change and cascade their knowledge to others using material that they have created themselves.Both teachers and learners here work collaborative to install and build competence, knowledge and creativity!

Reflection and Practice in Virtual education.

Week 2: The uses of language and how they change our practices:

The action oriented approach advocated that language can be learnt through communication language competence not as just a system of rules or grammar. For learners to develop their language competence, they should bring to the fore the three main competencies that are linguistic competence, socio-linguistic and pragmatic competence. This can be developped through meaningful and authentic situation that are based on current practice of the newly acquired functions, chunks and language exchange patterns.When the learner is aware of the three competencies, they manage to control and manipulate the pragmatic force, communicative capacity, level of politeness or formality in any discourse! Thus they become autonomous and manage to produce language meaningfully.

Listening Activity: Bleak House, Charles DICKENS.

Dear Colleagues:
This is my modest contribution to the Teachers Forum with Bleak House listening activity.
Hope You'll shower me with your constructive feedback.
Cheers .
Houssnia.
Browsing Literature:

Welcome To Junior School Drama Workshop:

Bleak House. Charles DICKENS.

Vocabulary activity:
Match the words in column A with their equivalent explanation in column B:
Column A Column B.
1- asylum. a- without home.
2- Passion b- well known.
3- Popular c- brain damage
4- Crowd d- hospital for mentally sick people.
5- Homeless e- a lot of people.
6- Stroke f- great love for something.
Answers:
1………
2-………
3-………
4-………..
5-……...
6-………

Brain Storming: Pre- questions:
1- How often do you read English stories?
2- What are the English writers/ novelists you do know?
3- Look at the picture .Do you know this man? (Charles DICKENS).
4- Have you ever read one of his stories?

Historical Backround :
Charles Dickens is a great English novelist of the 19th century, the Victorian period. His writings are marked with revolutionary spirit over the social evils, injustice and hypocrisy. As a young boy, he was forced to leave school and work in a factory. His father was a clerk in the navy pay office. He ended up in financial troubles.
Dickens worked in many jobs .He was a law office clerk, a newspaper editor and reporter in parliament. He married Catherine Hogarth and had ten children. His famous works include:
Oliver Twist , Great Expectations, Our mutual Friend , A tale of two cities , David Copper field , Bleak House ….

Before listening : Pre- activities :

A- Study these words and give your own examples :
Siblings : brothers and sisters.
e.g: I have five siblings . ( I have five brothers and sisters).
To work hard : to make great efforts
e.g : Ali always gets good marks in English because he works hard.
Mocked by : laughed at
e.g: The little girl is mocked by her friends because of her ragged clothes.
It’s not good to laugh at people.
Clerk : a person employed to do general office work.
e.g. : Steve works as a clerk in a bank.

While – listening:
Listen to the story and underline the correct answer :
http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/bleakhouse/animation.shtml
1- Charles Dickens was born on :
a- January 6th , 1812
b- February 7th , 1812
c- March 8th , 1812
2- His parents are called :
a- James and Elizabeth Dickens.
b- Jane and Elizabeth Dickens.
c- John and Elizabeth Dickens.
3- How many siblings does Charles have:
a- 6 siblings.
b- 7 siblings.
c- 8 siblings.
4- Charles father pointed at the big house remarking that:
a- Charles can work in that house, if he works hard.
b- Charles can buy the house, if he makes great efforts.
c- Charles can live in that house, if he works hard.
5- Charles’ family did not have a lot of money; Charles worked in a blacking factory labelling pots because:
a- He wants to be rich.
b- He wants to pay school fees.
c- He wants to help and support his family.
6- When John entered prison , Charles visited him :
a- Every Saturday.
b- Every Sunday.
c- Every Monday.
7- In 1831 , Charles worked in :
a- Tourism.
b- Journalism.
c- Parliament.
8- In 1835 Charles got married to Catharine Hogarth , how many children did they have ?
a- 8 children.
b- 9 children
c- 10 children.
9- Charles' writings make him very popular. Rumours claim :
a- He becomes a criminal and entered prison.
b- He becomes crazy and entered asylum.
c- He becomes a senator and works in a parliament.
10-Charles Dickens bought “Gad hill House” when he was :
a- 42 years old.
b- 43 years old.
c- 44 years old.
11- Charles had a relationship with Ellen Ternan .She is :
a- a singer .
b- an actress .
c- Journalist.
12- “Our Mutual Friend “ is :
a- Charles’ dearest friend.
b- His wife’s friend.
c- The title of his fictional book
13-Before his death , Charles Dickens suffers from:
a- Heart attack.
b- A stroke.
c- A stomach-ache.
14- Charles finished his novel “ The Mystery Of Edwin Drood “ :
a- True.
b- False.
c- We don’t know.
Post – Listening :

Pair work : Complete the chart with your partner :
- Charles worked a lot in his childhood and did not have a free time!
- What are the activities you do in your free time ( out of school) ?

You : Your partner:
e.g : I Play football . e.g: He/ she reads a book.
………………............ .........................................

Group Work: Use your Dictionary and find a synonym for these words , them put them in a coherent sentences:
a- Bleak: …………….
b- Fame: ………….
c- Raven: …………..
d- Sail: ………….
e- Injured: …………
f- Success: …………
g- Label: ………..
Search :
Use the internet and find at least 4 writers who wrote about the Victorian Period and state their major books / writings.

Writer : Major writings/ books.
1-………….... a- .........................
2-……………….. b-..........................
3-……………… c-..........................
4-……………… d-.........................

Discussion : In groups of four , discuss the following questions :
Share your ideas and choose a reporter to report your findings:
1- Is it important to work hard in life ? Why?
2- Charles Dickens had a sad , difficult childhood! How about you?
3-What is the lesson you learnt from this story?
4- If you want to recommend this story to a friend what will you tell them? ( Write a short paragraph about it).

Homework :
1- Use the internet and Draw Charles’ family tree.
2- Draw a picture of the house of your dreams.
( Answers will be posted on the same page , next week).
Good luck.

Week 1 feedback.

Hi all,

This is a short feedback about what our colleague , Khadija, wrote in her report concerning blogs:In her report , Khadija highlighted the important role of blogs in facilitating students learning , and giving a new breathe to teaching English. From her point of view we can deduce:

* Blogs are a call for change and novelty in learning and motivation.
* Thanks to blogs students become responsible for their learning because they are involved in it by reading and writing..
* The blogs as important tools of teaching symbolize a new method to approach modern teaching technology.

Thank you Miss Khadija.
All the best,Houssnia.

Hi dear colleagues,

While week one assignment dealt with definitions, theories and views about blogs and bloggers, week two , however, shed more light on how to put these into practice.Hence , there are three main powerful softwares to create blogs for EFL education .

1-BLOGGER.
2-WORDPRESS.
3-BLOGGERLINES.

There several common features between the three softawares which are as follows:

* Teachers may opt to create blogs in all the softwares because they sherish a rapid access to the web. Bloggers manage to create blogs , update them and post whatever they want through them in a twinkling of an eye.

* All of them encompass the "RSS"(Real Simple Syndication)(Real Site Summary) feature, which means that all the bloggers get notified whenever a text is posted on the web so that they can share it with others and comment on it as well.

*The three softwares are meant to bridge the gap between users and create a community of bloggers through reading and writing.Coming to which software to use with students I would say that:*WORDPRESS is an easy one in use since it stands as simple plat form for chatting with aesthetic aspect.

*BLOGERLINES: enhances building a community of users but without a possiblity to add links or photos on it.*BLOGGER is the most wide and powerfull for its huge capicity to hold files , add links , photos, and post messages,I think it can be the most suitable one for students.As for the difference between the three kinds od blogs:

1-TUTOR BLOG is a blog created by the teacher while the students are not necessarily members of it , they just get the instruction from the blog and do the assignment on their own pace , then send the feedback to the tutor's email box.

2-CLASSROOM BLOG is a blog for the whole class'students , both the teacher and the students are members , it completes class work outside it. The students are meant to work in groups or individually on the same issue mentioned on the blog and post their findings to it...

3- LEARNER BLOG is when every student create their own blog. And having the others commenting on it , sharing the links, providing advice , views and constructive criticism. I think it's the best one since it gives room to self development , info sharing and progress.

Should I create a blog for my students I would opt for Classroom blog because it gives more weigh to collaboration and cooperative learning , I would add some links on my blog and post some instruction / questions about reading short stories and grammar quizzes online ,so that they can do them and post the answer on the blog.And latter I would encourage them to create their own blog.

Why not I may cherish a dream coming true : INTERGRATING ICT IN THE CLASSROOM.
All the best ,Houssnia.

Miss Tiana Houssnia. Ibn Lbanna Junior high school.

Hi all,
Let's do our best to make of our blogs the greatest learning environments that could have ever existed.
Cheers ,
Houssnia.

Thank you Mr AiT HADDANE

Hi Mr Ait Haddane,
Congratulations for your blog!
I hope we can learn from each other to integrate ICT in our classrooms and thank you very much for your invitation.
Cheers ,
Houssnia.