The Tiny English Corner

Hello everyone! I enjoyed a lot the Edpuzzle activities from the two blogs I had already evaluated " Ana educa y divierte ;) " and " ESL Freak "; both of their tasks are focused on current affairs and cultural issues, which I found quite motivating and interesting for my students. That is the reason why I will now plan an Edpuzzle activity with my groups based on how Easter is celebrated in UK and in the rest of the world. It is a great way to introduce new ideas and start learning about festivities and different traditions. This first video was a complete activity available in Edpuzzle with all the questions already prepared. The following one was made by me. It is about the history of Easter. Hope you like them!

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...

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/