Month: November 2017
Sweet Potato Toast With Labneh, Dill and Spices
Sweet Potato Toast With Labneh, Dill and Spices
By Kitty Greenwald
Nov. 16, 2017
https://www.wsj.com/articles/30-minute-recipe-sweet-potato-toast-with-labneh-dill-and-spices-1510758124
Roasted sweet potatoes
The Food Lab: The Best Roasted Sweet Potatoes
2010
J. Kenji López-Alt
http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/11/the-best-roasted-sweet-potatoes-thanksgiving-sides-the-food-lab.html
a 350°F (180°C) oven and baked until tender
to make the most of this effect, you’ve really only got to cook them in a temperature-controlled water bath at 150°F (66°C) for one hour before baking
The par-cooked potatoes were significantly sweeter and more flavorful than the plain roasted potatoes, which were starchy and bland.
Fatalism
Military Suicide: A Former Army Psychiatrist’s Veterans Day Reflections
By Elspeth Cameron Ritchie
TIME. Nov. 10, 2011
Military Suicide: A Former Army Psychiatrist’s Veterans Day Reflections
Many Soldiers also develop a sense of fatalism when around frequent death and destruction.
I want. I can. I will
Words count because they condition
For every every statement, there is a positive, a negative, and a neutral way of making that statement.
a stickler for words
Liminal state
TEDx Talks
May 21, 2013
Phonics (Tracey Chapelton)
British Council Spain, 2014
PHONICS GAMES
1. Emotional introductions
2. Point to the sound you hear (17:30)
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3. Letter race (19:21)
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4. Cross the River (22:06) stepping stones
5. Run to the …
6. Hula hoops (24:21)
BLENDING AND SEGMENTING GAMES (26:00)
1. Help the puppet
2. Word race (32:21) flash cards, spelling out
3. Fix the mistake
4. Running word dictation
KidsTV123
young learners successfully
Cambridge University Press ELT
2015
6 Key principles of teaching very young learners:
3. They benefit from meaning-focused activities and natural language use – not from explicit rules
songs, rhymes and chants
17:10 we need more contact hours. It’s that simple as that: quantity matters.
19:02 An age-appropriate methodology:
– multi-sensory learning
– songs, chants and rhymes
– stories
– learning to interact
– playing games
– learning to think
26:49 Strategy 2: Use rhythm and auditory sub-modalities to help children to remember difficult words
29:20 Strategy 3: Revise lexical sets with the help fo memory games
30:08 What do you think is next?
Dr. Joan Kang Shin
2016
National Geographic Learning: Young Learners
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYuzKEv8KcxMlXQxy0UIzog
Dr. Joan Kang Shin discusses how literacy activities can be introduced with learners as young as pre-school age and provide the building blocks for balanced literacy programming for young EFL learners.
conceptual habilities in L2
16:00 phonological awareness
17:16 phonemic awareness
Green Eggs and Ham
20:12 Chicka Chicka
23:56 Hot Potato Game
29:21 “BINGO”, a game for spelling words
30:05 Valuable dispositions of early literacy instruction
34:50 skills integration
38:53 Five helpful building blocks for an effective EFL literacy program
46:52 shared reading
Picture card games
Practicing Vocabulary with Picture Cards
National Geographic Learning: Young Learners
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYuzKEv8KcxMlXQxy0UIzog
photographs stimulate curiosity
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Macmillan ELT Spain, 2013
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National Geographic Learning: Young Learners
2015
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYuzKEv8KcxMlXQxy0UIzog
‘Stop!’, a Picture Card game
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National Geographic Learning: Young Learners
Dr. Joan Kang Shin
a game that allows learners to touch realia
Brick words. Mortar words
Explicit Vocabulary Teaching Strategies
AmericanGraduateDC
active and generative tasks:
– discussion
– writing activities
– graphic organizers (filling up information)
brick words
mortar words: functions, characteristics
Isabel L. Beck & Margaret G. McKeown
– tier I
– tier II
– tier III
SanBdoCitySchools
McGraw-Hill Education PreK-12