How well are your country doing in the Olympic Games?

Follow Your Country

Find out about competitors; compare your countries performance to team GB; listen to audio and video clips relevant to your nation; read articles; check out latest records, key facts and medals and subscribe to the latest headlines at:-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/olympics/2012/countries

TEFL Habitats of Great Britain Vocabulary Resource

Habitats of Great Britain -Vocabulary

Learn vocabulary associated with the environment at TEFL Vocabulary Resources

Resource to develop definitions of scientific vocabulary and phrases, synonyms, building words from the root, adding prefixes and suffixes. 

Further resources will follow to use the vocabulary you have learned.

Indigenous Culture and Mapping Resources

Reviving Our Culture, Mapping Our Future

by The ABN and The Gaia Foundation

The story behind a group of indigenous communities from around the world who met in South Africa two years ago. An awe inspiring video resource showing new methods (mapping and modelling) of communicating a message to the rest of the world. 

With a transcript for the teacher and practical ideas for activities in the classroom.

TEFL Communicative Resources.  

Olympic and Para Olympic TEFL Resource Books

British Council TEFL Olympic Visitor Book Resources

Writers - Mike Davies, Devo Forbes, Chris Speck, Mandy Loader, Suzanne Guerrero, Andy Baxter and Anthony Cosgrove

The British Council have produced two workbooks that you can be working through as the Olympic Games continue. They can be found at

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-for-the-games/visitors-handbook-olympics

You can either read the books online, search for content or download the handbooks to read later.

The books contain:-

• situational language activities.  

• an A-Z sports directory 

• a description of each individual olympic sport 

• a test with answers

• an answer key for all questions

The Sheka Forest Listening Comprehension Resource

The Sheka Forest Story - Wisdom from the Past, Resilience for the Future

by The ABN and The Gaia Foundation

The Sheka Forest Story shows the power of collaboration.

The Sheka forest is one of Ethiopia's largest and last remaining tropical forests. Clan leaders, the local community and the local government have come together with the support of local partner, Melca Ethiopia, to help secure the future of the forest, its rich bio-cultural diversity and to enhance sustainable livelihood options.

The story tells an enchanting tale of the complexities of forest governance at a time when it has never been more critical.

"It takes everyone to protect a forest. It only takes a few to destroy it".

A film made with partner Melca Ethiopia. More about Melca Ethiopia here 

melca-ethiopia.org/

This resource is a video listening task. Components of the lesson are loaded on the TEFL Communicative Resources ready to go.  The teacher's key and student sheet can be downloaded and printed from that page.  

The Olympics - Ready, Steady, Go!

Great Olympic Resources for TEFL Students

TEFL Communicative Resources

Links to slide shows to allow you to explore facts; interactive bibliographies on individual athletes with video's, images, timelines etc; information on international teams etc

http://getset.london2012.com/en/heroes

Slideshows - TEFL Grammar Resources

Four Present Tense Slide Shows 

Illustrating the form, function, meaning and uses of each tense.  The Present Simple, the Present Continuous, the Present Perfect and the Present Perfect Continuous can all be found on the TEFL Grammar Resources of this blog page.

BBC World Service Pronunciation Resource

BBC World Service Pronunciation Tips

A very good resource to study from. I recommend it because you will hear a Standard English accent which is easily understood by yourself and by others when they hear you speak with it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/ .

• Start by watching the video 'Pronunciation Tips from bbclearningenglish.com' 

• After you have introduced yourself to the resource, 'the sounds of English'  tab is a useful place to start. 
• To take your learning further than the voiced, voiceless and other consonants previously introduced on this page.I would suggest that you start learning the single vowel sounds and then the dipthongs (double vowel sounds)last as they are trickier. 

• Alternatively, you could revise the consonants first. 

TEFL Pronunciation Resources

Online TEFL Presentation Resource on Climate Change

Climate Change TEFL Resource

How has it been caused?  Is it a man-made problem? Or is it an effect of the sun getting hotter? 

These questions are examined in the presentation posted on the CLIL and EAP Resources.  There are opportunities to work with sentences using specific sentence constructions that express cause and effect.

Use English with Accuracy - Grammar Resource

TEFL Grammar Resource Page

This page has been reorganised and some web links added from:-

http://www.usingenglish.com/

This site has superb grammar resources and is well worth a visit.  I have integrated links to some of the resources.  For example: a glossary of grammatical terms; a list of irregular verbs; a list of phrasal verbs; and grammar quizzes for revision purposes.

Go to TEFL Grammar Resources to see more.

Ballgowns at the V&A Museum

British Glamour Since 1950

• Develop fashion vocabulary
• Practise reading and listening skills

"Through interviews with designers Nicholas Oakwell, Bruce Oldfield, David Sassoon, Mary Katrantzou and Roksanda Illincic, this film examines the significance of the ballgown, and what it is to be truly glamorous"

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/videos/b/ballgowns-british-glamour-since-1950

Go to TEFL Vocabulary Resources

Arctic CLIL Learning Resource

Change at the Top of the World

A video report on Global Warming. Charles Annenberg Weingarten (founder of www.explore.org)
http://explore.org/#!/videos/player/arctic-change-at-the-top-of-the-world

The host and director noted above presents the land, the legal and economic issues underlying the Arctic situation. Most importantly he hears the voice of the Inuit, indigenous peoples of the region. Elisapee Sheutiapik (the Mayor of Iqaluit, Nunavut) amongst others plays a major role in assisting him in this process.

An ecosystem video report of the Arctic that defines key scientific vocabulary and phrases whilst on a round trip on Akademik Loffe (a scientific, expedition boat). The focus of the report is on the Arctic Ecosystem; Past, Present and Future; and the local inhabitants. The story is broad, accurate and far reaching in it's implications. 

TEFL CLIL and EAP Resources . 

• Reflection on Poem
• Introduction
• Resolute, Meeting the Mayor of Iqaluit and the Discussions with the Women Elders

• Oil Exploration, International Law and Mapping Territory
• Nanisivik and the Canadian Coastguard 
• Jacques Sirois (Naturalist). Further Discussion on Climate Change and Pollution 
• Expedition on the Baffin Sea to Greenland
• The 'Sister City Agreement' in Sisimiut 
• Return to Iqaluit 
• Summary of Video  

Plus this extra section:-

• More Activities and Ideas for Discussions for TEFL teachers and students: 

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