Welcome to "The Tiny English Corner"!

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Hello and welcome to my blog "The Tiny English Corner"!

My name is M.Mar and it is my intention to create throughout this site a great "hodgepodge" of material, curiosities and activities for all my high-school students of English or anybody interested on it. It aims to contain different webs, blogs and recommendations I may find interesting and useful when learning such a complete language, which is based on ties of history, culture, geography and dynamism.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do :)


First of all, here you can find my three favourite dictionaries (bilingual and monolingual) of English:

http://www.wordreference.com/
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/es/
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/es/

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Genially Activity

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Some thoughts after using Genially in class: Taking into account this was the first time for me (and my students) using Genially, I must say it was not as user-friendly as we thought it would be at the very beginning, when we had a look at the app; that's why we needed to do an accurate planning in order to define every stage which would be followed not to make many mistakes and get the most out of Genially. The plan consisted on three different sessions before the oral presentation itself. In Stage 1, the group was established and the topic chosen; the activity was developed in 2º Bachillerato (second language) and since it is a small group formed by seven students we only did one group, dividing into sections their work. An idea came to my mind and after a short debate we thought about creating a TV show where everyone had their own part as a presenter (international and national news, sports, weather forecast, society, entertainment, etc.). In Stage 2 and 3, we ...
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Pixton Activity

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A reflection after using Pixton in class: Every time I have to do an activity in groups I like them not to be really large, so for me two or three people are enough to develop a task as the one presented above; in fact, Pixton could be a tool to be used independently, but we do not have enough computers to do so and I decided (taking into account the physical organization of the class) to do it by pairs, what worked really well. In order to get the final products you can see attached, I followed a very simple sequence of tasks due to the fact that Pixton is a very easy and intuitive too. Students were eager to start manipulating the program so I could not explain much to them. I asked them to create simple stories and a dialogue with vocabulary and expressions learnt in class. We developed this activity during one session and if they did not have the time to finish it, it was concluded at home and sent to me by email. The specific learning objectives for this activity were: creati...
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Edpuzzle Activity

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My reflection after using Edpuzzle: Although I had not used this program before, I consider that Edpuzzle surprises anyone having a quick look at it. If I chose this video instead of others is due to the fact that the unit we are working at in class right now is related to sports, and the topic of doping in famous footballers, basketball players or cyclists describes some of the situations we can hear about at the moment in any news. Apart from that, this video in particular is easy to understand according to the language level of my students and their interests. All in all, the main learning objectives for the session include a better understanding of specific vocabulary of the topic itself, the use of different verbal tenses, answering to some of the questions proposed and finally a personal opinion based on the content of the activity. Due to the fact that the video didn't last longer than 3 minutes, I decided not to develop a "flipped classroom" in this case; ...
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