This is an invitation to make an excellent book of worksheets.==========================
Note
to the reader who is a teacher
Have you ever had that moment when
one or more of your students is done with the lesson and you can see
boredom appear in their eyes?
Have you ever wished you could reach
into a magic box and pull out a worksheet that would keep fast
students occupied?
This is that magic box. These
worksheets worked for us and we want to share them with you.
In return, we ask that you pass
along these worksheets to your colleagues. Please write to us with
your suggestions and if you have a mafic worksheet, please share it.
We can include it in the next edition.
Send your comments and worksheets
that work for you to FreeEnglishLessons@gmail.com.
The worksheets will become Creative
Commons. Please assume that other teachers will adapt your work and
improve their lessons. We will ask that your name is attributed to
all derivations of the work.
Note
to the reader who is a student
You are probably annoyed by the
boring classes that you might be taking or you might be interested in
accelerating your speed of acquiring English.
Step 1: Tear out this page of
the book.
You can tear out this page (the
words “annoyed” and “boring teacher” probably will be
associated with your current school) and give the rest of the book to
one of your teachers or perhaps to a principal.
Step 2: Get this book in front
of a boring teacher.
It might help if you simply slip
into the teacher's room and place this book on a table. Or leave it
next to the photocopy machine, if your school is equipped with such a
dangerous device.
Step 3: Get the ebook and share
it with your friends
Research shows that studnets who
work together and encourage each other often learn faster and more.
Step 4: Start your Personal
Learning Plan (PLP)
You might want to show future
teachers what you have already done in your classes, so that the
future teachers can adapt to your plan for your success.
Step 5: encourage your
classmates to start their own PLPs
Why not spread the joy of
independent learning by asking your classmates to join you?
Step 6: Contact
bibpenpals@yahoo.com and
ask for penpals.
You might need to send a copy of
your request email to FreeEnglishLessons@gmail.com
because the bibpenpals email address is not monitored daily. If you
have access to the Internet, you can watch videos at
www.Youtube.com/bibpenpals
and you can look for BIBPenpals on Facebook at
www.Facebook.com/bibpenpals.
You will learn to speak better if you have a native speaker working
with you.
Send your comments to
FreeEnglishLessons@gmail.com.
www.Facebook.com/bibpenpals.
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A
note to directors of schools
It is a hazardous business to make
suggestions to teachers. Many will nod their heads and say, “That's
something I will start to do in my next class,” but really you
don't know what is happening in their heads. Other teachers might
make a face and eventually agree to do what you asked them to do, but
you feel you need to follow up with monitoring.
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The beauty of this Photocopiable
Pages approach is that the teacher doesn't need to prepare a lesson
plan, since the worksheets are generally easily completed by
students. If your school has access to the Internet, there are
videos associated with each worksheet. Students or the teacher can
switch on the video and let the class proceed. It's a way to
differentiate the instruction.
If your school is plagued with
teachers who lead a one-lesson-for-all approach, then the creation of
portfolios and personal learning plans might be one part of the cure.
Your classes will have a new culture of learning and inquiry by
using this book and some of the other books in our series, including:
Building More Responsive Schools
(Dr. Abraham S. Fischler),
Let's Lecture Less by Mario Llorente
and S. McCrea
How can we improve schools? (the
Humanistic approach) by Mario Llorente and others
Free article "Colors and Snakes for Language Learning"
Guide on the Side (in production)
The Flipped Classroom (Ask students to watch your lecture at home and arrive ready to discuss the lecture in the next class)
All of these books are available as
free ebooks.
Send your comments to
FreeEnglishLessons@gmail.com.
Here is the introduction to the book
There are many workbooks with effective
worksheets.
Many students benefit from filling in
blanks to learn the differences between past and present and subject
and verb. But let’s look at the binders and folders that students
carry around. What do we see?
Often we see a stack of worksheets that
appear to be carried around but not looked at more than once or
twice.
The goal of this packet is to give you useful worksheets that students can use again and again.
Worksheet A
How to politely interrupt the teacher
Worksheet B
My Learning Plan
Worksheet C
Pronunciation Practice Chart
These are the three sheets that I
distribute at no cost online.
I like to introduce the sheets to my
students in that order. Here’s what I say:
Teacher Talk A
How To Interrupt the Teacher
I like to give my students permission
to interrupt. It is an excellent skill and it communicates
immediately that the class is centered around you, the students.
Your best skill will be speaking. Talking is how you will quickly
show people your level of English. So I want you talking. Let’s
practice using this sheet…
Lower levels: It’s okay to
ask questions. We want you to talk a lot. Let’s use these words…
Teacher Talk B
My Learning Plan
The learning plan is a set of goals.
You can put your goals on this sheet. We can work together to find
words and homework to meet your goals.
Lower levels: What do you want
to do? Let’s look at each part of this page.
Teacher Talk C
Pronunciation
The learning plan is a set of goals.
You can put your goals on this sheet. We can work
Lower levels: What do you want
to do? Let’s look at each part of this page.
Teacher Talk (at least once a week)
Remember, students: Eventually you
will not need these sheets. Eventually you will leave these sheets
on a bookshelf or you’ll toss them out because you need the binder
for another project. Someday, you won’t need these pages. But
right now, let’s look at these pages again – what can we add?
What can we review?
No Photocopier? No Problem
None of these worksheets needs to be
photocopied. You can put this information on a board and the
students can get the information on blank sheets of paper.
Final word to teachers:
- You have the “teacher talk.”
- You have the sheets.
Let’s get started.
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The end of the book goes like this:
There
will be future editions....
Note to future contributors
This book is intended to be sold at a
very small profit margin and will in fact be given away to schools in
developing countries, such as Cuba.
The aim is to get the contributors
(whose names will be on the cover) invitations to come to the
schools.
A contributor who places some lessons
in this compilation will be encouraged to send the ebook to hundreds
of schools in an area that the contributor wants to visit... in
exchange for a place to sleep, the contributor offers to give a
workshop. Not a bad way to spend a holiday.
If you are interested in participating,
send me some examples of worksheets … the aim is to make the 101
pages useful. The core of the program is the creation of a
portfolio, so the items in the portfolio will help show future
teachers the level of fluency that the student has attained. The
portfolio will also show what areas the student has and perhaps
hasn't mastered.
Steve (editor / compiler)
I hope you will participate. Let's
throw together a bigger, better and more diverse collection of
worksheets that teachers can use.
I think it's okay to have multiple
approaches to irregular verbs in the same workbook... after all, it's
an ebook. It will also be available for purchase as a 8.5 x 11
format book on Createspace.
Ending Message
Thank you for using my photocopiable
worksheets in your class. Please
contact me at danaroseenglish@yahoo.com.
Thanks. If you have a worksheet that works for you, I hope you
will let me share it in the next edition of our book.
English Language Teaching can take you
from Alaska to Argentina!
A list of
tips
1. Go for it and
actually make it happen!
2. Relate to
students on a personal level
3. Be energetic
and show that you want to be there teaching
4. Have
unconditional positive regard and treat mistakes as a good part of
the learning process
5. Give real
world examples
6. Make the activities fun and
interesting
Keep in touch.
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