Conversations - Can you swim? Yes, I can!

As you have probably noticed, September is getting closer and closer thus I started preparing materials for the next school year. Will it be useful to tell our classmates what we have learnt during holidays? I hope it will! I have prepared cards with questions that may be useful for practising CAN / CAN'T and short ansfers. Learners work in pairs. Each student is given one card

 (student A or student B). They ask each other given questions and answer. 

a. Can you dive?

b. Yes, I can. / No, I can't. 

Easy as it is! ;)

Mother's Day!

Hello!!

I promised I would share materials that I prepared for Mother's Day. Here you will find files with flashcards, memory game, cards for mothers and many others ... It will be easier if I show it ;) !

For so long I couldn't come with the idea what vocabulary I shoud use when it comes to Mother's Day. I was thinking about duties or other annoying things that every mum has to deal with every day. However, I decided to teach children vocabulary which is more pleasant and strongly connected with every woman ;) Here you have 13 flashcards which may refer (or should refer :)) to Mother's Day. 

If you like them you can download here.

You will find here also a task with vocabulary from flashcards. It's a word search. Word placement: forward, backward, diagonal, up and down - to make it more demanding ;)

DOWNLOAD!!!

I also prepared a memory game with adjectives describing mother. 

Download here ;)

I designed cards for mums with tracing and frames in which learners may draw their mothers or insert a photo. They may also decorate the card with flowers :)

Here you have 3 different cards ;)

The last thing that I prepared is a flower. Children cut the flowers out and glue the center of the flower into their notebooks. Under each petal they write adjectives describing their mothers. 

FLOWERS TO DOWNLOAD ;)

I hope you will find it useful!

Mother's Day dates in different countries

Do you remember about Mother's Day?! In Poland people celebrate Mother's Day on 26th May. What about other countries .... ?

February

Mother's Day in Norway is the second Sunday in February

8th March 

In Bulgaria Mother's Day is fixed and always celebrated on 8 March, along with International Women's Day

March/April

Mother's Day in the UK always falls on the fourth Sunday in the Christian Festival of Lent. The day is called Mothering Sunday.

May

First Sunday in May (3rd in 2009)

Mother's Day is celebrated on the first Sunday in May in:

Spain Portugal

Second Sunday in May (10th in 2009)

Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in May in:

Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Canada Denmark Netherlands

Finland Germany Italy Japan Turkey United States

10 May 

Mother's Day is always celebrated on 10 May in:

Bahrain Hong Kong India Malaysia Mexico

Pakistan Saudi Arabia Singapore United Arab Emirates

26 May

Mother's Day in  Poland!!!

Last Sunday in May

France

Sweden

August

12 August

Mother's Day in Thailand is celebrated on the Queen of Thailand's birthday. 

It is a big celebration with street decorations.

Timelines!

Hello guys!

I'm sure you know matura exams are comming so I've decided to prepare something for students of high school. I've observed that tenses make learners confused and they have a lot of problems with grammar. I always try to visualize the tense or the order of actions. I'm a visual so I learn through colours, shapes and ... timelines. I've noticed that many students acquire the rules faster when they're able to 'see' a certain tense in a timeline. That's why I've created cards presenting each tense in a timeline form. I did my best to make it clear and esthetic and I hope you'll find it useful and helpful.

I wish you a nice weekend!

Download the timelines!

Animals puzzles !

Hello!

I should start with apologizing you for not writing so long. Unfortunately, I have so many things to do and so little time to remember about those things.

Recently, I've prepared wild animals puzzles and domestic animals puzzles which - as I've observed - give a lot of fun for young learners. They love guessing which animal is going to appear, thus they're more engaged into the task. 

HERE YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE CARDS AND CUT OUT THE SHAPES YOU WANT.

ENJOY!

Have you got ... ?

Good afternoon! 

I promised I would come back more creative and I hope I won't let you down! The whole Easter I couldn't stop thinking about my blog, although I wanted a little break from work and responsibilities. I believe this blog will be getting better and better as time goes by. Today, I'd like to present you some cards which can be used for teaching "have got" questions and short answers. Students may also use them for describing people's apperance. 

The procedure:
Students work in pairs. Student A asks questions : Have you got brown eyes? Have you got a beard?
Student B answers: "Yes, I have" or "No, I haven't".
After collecting enough information, student A can ask directly: "Are you Danielle?"
Student B answers: "Yes, I am" or " No, I'm not".

Students may exchange their cards with other pairs or you can prepare more than one 'Student B card' for each 'Student A card'.

More cards here ;)

I wish you a sunny and creative day!

What's the time?

Hello!

Since some time I do nothing but share my new ideas for a lesson, that's why this is the last post before Easter. Today I have prepared two boards for student A and student B. The purpose of this task is to practice asking about the time and answering the questions. 

Student A: What's the time in 2a?
Student B: It's a quarter to ten.

Student A fills the gap and the next question is asked by student B and so on.

See you after Easter! I hope I'll come back more creative than ever!