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STUDENT CHALLENGE:  See HOW MANY QUESTIONS YOU can PREPARE to ask other blog readers by using THE HISTOMAP - write the questions in the comments box below and see how many answers you get – intermediate / advanced / teens / adults

23/6/2016

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THE HISTOMAP is the first historical map I have found which presents 4000 years of history and the relationships between populations at a glance!

Below are just a few ideas, vocabulary and expressions to ask questions with:

-     Prepare questions using:  How long...?  Which... ? When... ? Where... ? Who... ? etc.
 

-     Comparisons.                      '  

-     more powerful than
-     the most powerful
-     as... as


-     New vocabulary, verbs, passive tense and collocations:

-     conquered (by)
-     reign lasted
-     were in power for
-     lasted
-     weak / strong
-     great
-     destroyed (by)
-     short-lived
-     long-lived
-     Western / Eastern world
-     Middle-East
-     developed
-     grew
-     maintained
-     people vs population

You can download THE HISTOMAP  below.  I found it freely downloadable in Internet ..

Hope you find some stimulating questions to ask with it!
Susan

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SONGS in the classroom:  GRAMMAR GALORE – intermediate / advanced / teens / adults

23/6/2016

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Songs always bring a breath of fresh air into the SONGS in the classroom:  GRAMMAR GALORE – intermediate / advanced / teens / adults     lassroom and are greeted with joy.  I usually try to choose songs, which are not only clear and fairly easy to understand but have meaningful content for language learners such as grammar, phrasal verbs or vocabulary pertinent to what we are studying.

A wonderful song full of all kinds of grammar and expressions that is for intermediate / advanced students is HOLLYWOOD – Michael Buble.  The catchy tune is fun to listen and sing along to whilst the rich assortment of language leads to all kinds of possible adaptations for practice – some of which I have suggested at the end of the document to download.

You can download the worksheets to the song below.  Feel free to delete or translate the Italian into another language.

Can anyone suggest any other songs for practising grammar revision?

Hope you have fun with it!
Susan

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If you liked this song, check out my playlist for other chants and songs:
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Susan's ESL Learning Videos (Chants & Songs)
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REPETITIVE CHANTS:  An opportunity to LEARN COLLOCATIONS NATURALLY...– beginner/intermediate / advanced / children / teens / adults

3/6/2016

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Chants are a very repetitive way of embedding expressions in the brain so that they become second-nature and just 'sound right' without having to resort to learning grammar rules and translating from one's own language with the inevitable often horrific results.
 
I have been setting expressions to music and rhythmic chants for decades with excellent results. 
GOOD AT is an expression which many of my students just cannot remember and I would like them to be able to use collocations spontaneously - so I have invented this chant in the hope of fixing this expression forever!!
 
You can download the worksheet to the song below. 
Hope it's useful!
Susan
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    My name is Susan Brodar, born in London into a multilingual family and brought up bilingual English / Italian.

    I went to school in London until 15 when we moved to Germany where I finished my British education at Munich International School. I started teaching Italian at evening classes aged only 17 and studied Mass Communications and Journalism at Munich University.

    I continued teaching parallel to interpreting at trade fairs and business meetings as well doing translations. After working at the Italian Institute for Foreign Trade for a year I married my Italian globetrotting companion in 1983 and we set up our home near Venice, Italy where we continue to live with our two teenaged children.

    Having taken my British High School-leaving ‘A’ Level exams in English, Italian, French & German I am completely fluent in all four languages and am taking a DELE certification in Spanish to complement them.

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