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I am from Coimbra, Portugal, and am currently teaching in a school in Soure, about 30 km away from Coimbra. I have been a teacher of English for over 20 years and have already taught different levels and age groups. After all this time I can say I love working with adult groups because there are no coursebooks and I can create my own resources. I am an avid reader, a blogger and very curious about free tools and their implementation in the classroom.

Saturday, October 30, 2010

More on... HALLOWEEN

Kids and teens love bizarre, weird stuff, don't they?
I've signed up for regular updates from The Guinness World of Records (their "monthly superlative news fix") for some time and guess what?! Recently they've announced a list of Top Halloween Records - and I thought: Wow - why not show our classes a slideshow of Halloween records next week to introduce or review the adjective degrees, namely the superlative forms???? The Telegraph also has an amazing picture gallery of carved pumpkins and here is another under the heading "Thrill the world 2010" with zombies.
As Halloween approaches, both BBC and CNN have posted images and articles on this subject, even comparing US and UK spendings as it happens here or in this video. So, besides those old but still useful Classroom Timesavers (Holidays and Special Days in the USA / Festivals and Special Days in Britain), what I've already posted before and am posting now, there is a wide range of sources to choose from - one needs but time to search and choose and that's what we haven't got...
Further interesting / curious infos can be found...
http://us.cnn.com/video/ - free app (only till Oct 31) for cell phones called "Trick or Track" so that parents can track their children's location

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

From Cristina, Spain:

Thanks, Alex, as always, for your fantastic ideas on each topic. I can´t imagine how much time-consuming it must be for you to look for all these sites and links, which I find really useful, so, thank you very much once more.

Alexandra Duarte said...

You're always welcome, Cristina! Thanks for visiting the blog and for your precious comments.
Keep in touch,
A hug, Alexandra

Anonymous said...

Hi, halloween is a very nice time!!! I like it very much because it makes me feel a child again. I’ve seen a witch and I’ve played :) It makes me remember good old times!!! A happy Halloween.

Hugs and kisses,

São Simoes (former student)

Anonymous said...

your suggestions about sites to visit are always great! well done,Alex!!
a big hug!
Simo

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