Making English Fun

Hello and welcome

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Just a short note about what it is we do and hope to do in the future. 

I am a teacher in Hong Kong and have spent ten years teaching primary school students. In that time i have seen some examples of great practice that i would like to share. I have made resources that can be found here through links or on the site.

I have also found a shared interest with my students in the use of technology, science and general studies when teaching language. 

It is here that i will share some of the activities and resources i have both made and found.



Recently I have been learning how to make APPs for mobile phones and although late to the game i am hoping some of the things i can develop will be of use to other teachers now and in the future.

i figure there are more talented people out there than me who can make them, but all to often the apps i try to use get difficult quickly, are not specific enough with content or hit a pay wall that most students, teachers or schools can not afford. 

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I hope that the content I provide will go someway in over coming those obstacles. 

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One of the main challenges ESL teachers, especially in Hong Kong, bu i suspect everywhere, face is the lack of time to make an impression and therefore an impact on their students. It bothered me for quite a while and i couldn't find a solution that worked consistently for me. Then, while sitting chatting to a grade 2 student about some colouring work she was doing for Chinese and she was talking about her Mum making her a  blue birthday cake with food colouring. 

I remembered what a primary school teacher had done with me when i was at school, the rainbow milk experiment. 

Now I am am older and if not wiser at least i know more than when i was eight years old, so i know the science behind the experiment, but at the time is was like magic to me. 

I wanted to do the same when i was teaching. I went out that evening and tried to find food colouring, of course i bought the wrong type the first time, so armed the next day with a freshly googled shopping list i got the equipment needed. 

The fact that i have now made so many lessons on science and nature testifies to the difference it has made in my teaching and I am fairly sure my students experience of language learning.

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I don;t do it every week, or even every month but now and then between the more traditional language lessons the students receive we will stop and do something different. 

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Those 'now and thens' have turned into the highlights of my teaching, i hope some of the things i have done can help you achieve , or achieve this more often  as well. 

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Thanks Mrs Smedley, your still teaching students 35 years on!

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