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Using Padlet´s "I can't draw" tool, create an image of yourself in front of a NY sight. Post it together with your class list number and the prompt you used.

The prompt has to be in English. When prompting follow the tips above.

Steps:

Click on the + icon

then choose +11,

find "I can't draw" and start writing your prompt.

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Inside this bus on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, a soft-spoken African-American seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white man, breaking existing segregation laws. The flawless character and quiet strength she exhibited successfully ignited action in others. For this, many believe Rosa Parks’s act was the event that sparked the Civil Rights movement.

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See U.S. racial and ethnic diversity, mapped block by block

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Racial Distribution - National Geographic

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Racial Distribution - National Geographic

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See U.S. racial and ethnic diversity, mapped block by block

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Mapping American diversity reveals not just a snapshot of today but the imprint of two and a half centuries of migration, conflict, and prosperity.

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As a way of consolidating or revising knowledge and understanding of a study unit, students have to design a DVD inlay for a fictional documentary film / biopic. They should give careful thought to the images to include, the cast list, the reviews, the 'blurb' at the back, and so on - using real DVD covers as examples.

Download

Editable DVD Inlay Template - I have created this editable template to be used in class. When printed off onto A4, it is exactly the correct size for a DVD case:

Examples

The following two examples from my own Year 9 students give an example.

(from the "Was the 20th Century a period of progress?" project at www.activehistory.co.uk)

(from the "Who is your History Hero?" project at www.activehistory.co.uk)

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As a way of consolidating or revising knowledge and understanding of a study unit, students have to design a DVD inlay for a fictional documentary film / biopic. They should give careful thought to the images to include, the cast list, the reviews, the 'blurb' at the back, and so on - using real DVD covers as examples.

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tree.fm - Tune Into Forests From Around The World

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This is a heavily interactive web application, and JavaScript is required. Simple HTML interfaces are possible, but that is not what this is.

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#BlueLZ #Englisch Kennt ihr Tracy Chapman? Klar!! Kennt ihr auch die Geschichte ihres Erfolgs? Alles begann mit einem Zufall. 1988 war die völlig unbekannte Chapman als Pre-Act beim Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert im Wembley. Dann fiel Stevie Wonders Synthesizer aus. 1/...

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BlueLZ #Englisch Kennt ihr Tracy Chapman? Klar!! Kennt ihr auch die Geschichte ihres Erfolgs? Alles begann mit einem Zufall. 1988 war die völlig unbekannte Chapman als Pre-Act beim Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Concert im Wembley. Dann fiel Stevie Wonders Synthesizer aus. 1/...

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Ellis Island Interactive Tour With Facts, Pictures, Video | Scholastic.com

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Learn about immigration on Ellis Island in this interactive, virtual tour. Facts about immigration, pictures of Ellis Island, oral histories, and videos help explain the immigration process to kids.

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virtual tour by heritage documentation programs

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Statue of Liberty | Virtual tour by Heritage Documentation Programs

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Virtual tour by Heritage Documentation Programs

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What Happened on 9/11?, Part I | National September 11 Memorial & Museum

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Essential Question: What happened on 9/11?

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Medienkompetenz der Schüler fördern

Während der Schulschließungen am Anfang des Jahres kam der Gymnasiallehrkraft Johanna Uhl die Idee, dass ihre Schüler der 8. Jahrgangsstufe im Fach Englisch gemeinsam ein „International Cook Book" erstellen. Dies bot sich an, da viele Lernende in ihrer Klasse einen Migrationshintergrund haben. Die Mitarbeit fand auf freiwilliger Basis statt, die meisten Schüler beteiligten sich allein oder in Partnerarbeit daran. Der gesamte Planungsprozess, die Durchführung und natürlich das Ergebnis zeigen, wie ein Distanz- oder auch Hybridunterricht mit digitalen Werkzeugen optimal funktionieren kann.

Book Creator als Hauptwerkzeug

Sie haben noch keinen Zugang?

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Kollaborativ und kreativ: So entsteht ein internationales Kochbuch

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Medienkompetenz der Schüler fördern Während der Schulschließungen am Anfang des Jahres kam der Gymnasiallehrkraft Johanna Uhl die Idee, dass ihre Schüler der 8. Jahrgangsstufe im Fach Englisch gemeinsam ein „International Cook Book" erstellen. Dies bot sich an, da viele Lernende in ihrer Klasse einen Migrationshintergrund haben.

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Emoji is the fastest growing language in history. Five billion emojis are sent every day, just on Facebook Messenger. They're appearing in some surprising places too. One court judge in England used a smiley face emoji in a document to make it easy to explain the court's decision to children. It's not surprising that there's a day to celebrate emojis, but what do you know about its organisers, the website Emojipedia?

Know your emoji

The company Unicode actually creates the computer code that give us emojis, but Emojipedia is where you can learn exactly what each emoji means and how to use it. Most of us probably know and use the most popular emojis, like the classic smiley face, heart or the smiling face with tears of laughter. But if you want to grow your emoji vocabulary, you can use Emojipedia to find out new ways to speak emoji.

So, for example, go to Emojipedia and type in sick and it will give you several options. If you mean ill, as in the American English phrase I'm sick, you can use the face with a thermometer or a mask. Or maybe you mean I feel sick, like in British English to mean to vomit. Since 2017, when Unicode added the vomiting emoji, you can choose from two green faces. Or maybe you're just feeling a bit dizzy, in which case you can choose the confused, dizzy-looking face. If you wanted to talk about hospital or a medical condition, Emojipedia has also suggested a syringe or a pill. So you can see with just one real word, sick, you have a lot of emojis to choose from to explain exactly what you mean!

New, inclusive emojis

Unicode adds new emojis all the time. They might take time to be available on all platforms and phones, but you will see them immediately on Emojipedia. An important improvement to the emoji list, which had 2,823 emojis after its 2018 update, is to make the emojis more diverse. Since 2015, when Apple added five different emoji skin colours, people have been able to choose how to represent themselves best. The 2018 update added red hair, Afro hair and a bald face, all in a range of skin colours, but that update didn't go far enough either. Many people asked for new emojis to represent deaf and blind people, and people with physical or invisible disabilities.

Save the date!

There's some emoji history behind how Emojipedia chose 17 July to celebrate World Emoji Day. Check out the calendar emoji on Emojipedia and look carefully. Can you see the date?

The code for each emoji is the same, but different platforms, like Twitter or Facebook, for example, design their emojis in different ways. When Emojipedia was deciding which day to hold World Emoji Day, only Apple was using a calendar emoji with a date on, 17 July. So they decided to celebrate emojis on 17 July too. Apple chose that date because it was when Apple introduced its iCal calendar feature for Mac in 2002. Now, other platforms have added dates to their calendar emojis. Facebook Messenger uses its launch date of 9 August. Twitter's calendar emoji shows 21 March because that's the date Twitter created its company. It used to show Twitter's launch date, which was 15 July, but that was too close to World Emoji Day's date, so they changed it.

Happy World Emoji Day!

So, if you want to send someone a message using emoji to celebrate World Emoji day, Emojipedia has plenty to choose from, including six colours of raising hand emojis, five party emojis and two kinds of fireworks. You can even choose a world globe that shows the part of the world you live in. Whichever emojis you choose to celebrate, we wish you Happy World Emoji Day!

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Emoji is the fastest growing language in history. Five billion emojis are sent every day, just on Facebook Messenger. They're appearing in some surprising places too. One court judge in England used a smiley face emoji in a document to make it easy to explain the court's decision to children.

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140 This or that-Ideen | frage spiel, netflix serien liste, disney filme liste

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05.03.2020 - Erkunde ElenainLoves Pinnwand „this or that" auf Pinterest. Weitere Ideen zu frage spiel, netflix serien liste, disney filme liste.

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The best Super Bowl Ads - New York Times

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The best Super Bowl Ads - New York Times

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Here is how our critic saw the Super Bowl commercials from best to worst.

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How do you procrastinate (I know you do ;) )?? I'm guilty of procrastinating every day. I sometimes convince myself that I can't work until the house is spotless so I clean it until every room shines. On other occasions I feel I can't do anything before watching an episode (or three) of Friends (btw. My life wouldn't be complete without Monica, Chandler, Rachel, Ross, Phoebe, and Joe). And then, there are days when I just scroll up and down my facebook checking out what's happening in the world...not very productive, right?

Not everything on facebook is useless though! There are some pretty cool pages out there! One of them is Humans of New York - a photoblog with street portraits and interviews collected on the streets of New York City. I'm absolutely hooked on reading those short but inspiring stories!

I have recently been practising for FCE speaking test part 2 (photo comparison) and I noticed that my students struggle with speaking and speculating about photos. Even though they know some useful phrases to make hypotheses and they're familiar with modal verbs of speculation, they still lack ability to put these into practice. I knew I had to stimulate my students' imagination and give them an interesting task to help them become more successful at speculating about photos, so I decided to turn one of my procrastinating activities into a task for my students. This is how I came up with a lesson plan based on a few photos and stories taken from HONY in order to give my students the opportunity to practice modal verbs and other phrases of speculation to hypothesise about photos.

In the lesson students can also become more confident at describing people and their feelings as well as telling or writing stories. The lesson can be adapted to lower levels and can be used to practice for other Cambridge exams such as PET speaking test part 3 (photo description).

Here are the links to the lesson plan (link) and the worksheets:

Humans of New York lesson step by step
Humans of New York lesson photos A-E
Humans of New York matching activity
Humans of New York matching activity KEY
Humans of New York creative writing (homework)
Hope you like the lesson. Don't hesitate to write to me with your comments about it :)

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Humans of New York lesson plan and worksheets

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How do you procrastinate (I know you do ;) )?? I'm guilty of procrastinating every day. I sometimes convince myself that I can't work until the house is spotless so I clean it until every room shines. On other occasions I feel I can't do anything before watching an episode (or three) of Friends (btw.

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U.S. Commemorates 400th Anniversary of Jamestowne Settlement, 2006
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Queen of America

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Take a closer look at the story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith in this section of the Frieze of American History.

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The Hermitage, Jackson's Tomb, and Andrew J. Donelson's Residence, 12 Miles from Nashville, Tennessee..., 1856
Francis W. Strickland
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The Removal Act

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Take a closer look at the wording of the Indian Removal Act in this reproduction of the original document.

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"Custer's Last Stand" poster for Buffalo Bill's Wild West show (detail), 1905
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The Indians Win

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Most Commonly Spoken Languages in the US

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Most Commonly Spoken Languages in the US

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Last month, I wrote about the fun and the pitfalls of viral maps, a feature that included 88 super-simple maps of my own creation. As a follow-up, I'm writing up short items on some of those maps, walking through how I created them and how they succumb to (and hopefully overcome) the shortfalls of viral cartography.

One of the most interesting data sets for aspiring mapmakers is the Census Bureau's American Community Survey. Among other things, that survey includes a detailed look at the languages spoken in American homes. All the maps below are based on the responses to this survey. However, an ACS participant does not select his language from a list of predeteremined options; he fills in a blank box with his self-selected answer. For instance, some people answered the ACS with "Chinese," while others gave specific dialects such as "Mandarin" or "Cantonese". These were all treated as different languages in the ACS data and when constructing these maps. (See the raw data here.) New York is marked "Chinese" because more people responded with "Chinese" than any other language other than English or Spanish. If all Chinese languages (or languages under the umbrella of a larger language family) had been grouped together, the answers for many states would change. In addition, Hawaiian is listed as a Pacific Island language, so following the ACS classifications, it was not included in the Native American languages map. The spelling of each language is based on the language of the ACS.

OK, that map is not too interesting. Now, let's remove Spanish from the mix.

Given these new parameters, we now see a trio of Native American languages, Navajo, Dakota, and Yupik, on the map. Navajo is the most prevalent Native American language, with more than 170,000 speakers, while Dakota lags behind with just 18,000. According to the census, there are more speakers of Navajo in Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona than there are speakers of other Native American languages in all other states combined.*

Here are a couple more language groups of interest. First, the Scandinavians. The census categorizes Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian as Scandinavian languages.

Next up, Indo-Aryan languages. For the purposes of this map, we consider Hindi, Gujarati, Urdu, Bengali, Panjabi, Marathi, Nepali, and Sinhalese to fall into that category.

Finally, African languages. The choices here are Amharic, Berber, Chadic, Cushite, Sudanic, Nilotic, Nilo-hamitic, Nubian, Saharan, Khoisan, Swahili, Bantu, Mande, Fulani, Gur, Efik, Mbum, as well as "Kru, Ibo, Yoruba," which the census lists as a single language.

See more of Slate's maps.

Correction, May 13, 2014: This article originally misspelled Arapaho in the map of most commonly spoken Native American languages. (Return.)

Update, May 16, 2014: This paragraph was revised to clarify how the maps were constructed. (Return.)

Correction, May 27, 2014: This article originally misstated that only two languages categorized by the Census as Native American languages-Navajo and Dakota-were displayed in the "Most Commonly Spoken Language Other than English or Spanish." It also included Yupik. (Return.)

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Last month, I wrote about the fun and the pitfalls of viral maps, a feature that included 88 super-simple maps of my own creation. As a follow-up, I'm writing up short items on some of those maps, walking through how I created them and how they succumb to (and hopefully overcome) the shortfalls of viral cartography.

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How to become president of the US - Animation (englisch)

Der animierte 6-Minuten-Clip (3D) erklärt auf spielerische Art und Weise das amerikanische Wahlsystem. Er liegt in deutscher und englischer Sprachfassung vor.

(Hinweis: Die im Film genannte Regel "the winner takes it all" gilt nur zum Teil in den beiden kleinen Bundesstaaten Nebraska und Maine. Einige der Wahlmännerstimmen werden dort anders vergeben.)

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Der animierte 6-Minuten-Clip (3D) erklärt auf spielerische Art und Weise das amerikanische Wahlsystem. Er liegt in deutscher und englischer Sprachfassung vor. (Hinweis: Die im Film genannte Regel "the winner takes it all" gilt nur zum Teil in den beiden kleinen Bundesstaaten Nebraska und Maine. Einige der Wahlmännerstimmen werden dort anders vergeben.)

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Ten popular two-sentence horror stories have been divided into three columns for students to match the beginning, middle and end. The goal here is for students to use contextual and cohesive clues that will allow them to rewrite these stories, starting with the beginning of each story under column A, then choosing the next part under column B, and finally thinking of a suitable ending under C. In addition, the students are asked to decide where the missing full stop between the first and the second sentence in each story should be.
Two-Sentence Stories.pdf
ANSWERS:
1. I never go to sleep. I keep waking up.
2. The grinning face stared at me from the darkness beyond my bedroom window. I live on the 14th floor.
3. Lying in bed that night she asked why I was breathing so heavily. I wasn't.
4. I woke up to hear knocking on glass. At first, I thought it was the window until I heard it come from the mirror again.
5. There was a picture in my phone of me sleeping. I live alone.
6. Working the night shift alone tonight. There is a face in the cellar staring at the security camera.
7. They delivered the mannequins in bubble wrap. From the main room I begin to hear popping.
8. You get home, tired after a long day's work and ready for a relaxing night alone. You reach for the light switch, but another hand is already there.
9. A girl heard her mom yell her name from downstairs, and started to head down. As she got to the stairs, her mom pulled her into her room and said "I heard that too."
10. I walked into the bathroom one night and looked at myself in the mirror. Only one of us walked out.

The students choose the three stories they find the creepiest, write a brief explanation for each of them, and share their thoughts with the rest of the class.

Now display the following:

What is scary about this? Why? Think about the tiny little things and everyday struggles of life in the 21st century. What "scares" you the most?

After brainstorming a few ideas as a whole group, ask the students to come up with a two-sentence story featuring one of those everyday life "struggles", edit it, publish it, and then share it. My students are teenagers in Spain, so most stories were about technological issues, social media, school (especially exams and deadlines) or getting around the city.

Your alarm goes off and you hit the snooze button for 5 more minutes. When you wake up, you realise your final exam was an hour ago.

You have been stalking a friend on Instagram. Suddenly, you accidentally like an old picture.

That was a long queue to get on the bus. My travel card had expired and I had no money on me.

9:00 a.m.. 7% battery life and no charger.

The final discussion based on these stories allowed the students to share experiences and make personal connections with each other in an active, student-centred learning environment that also encouraged critical thinking as the students analysed and assessed these attitudes and behaviours.

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MapCrunch - teleport to a random place in the world

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Teleport to a random point on the globe. Find new and exciting travel destinations. Share weird and wonderful places with your friends.

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(2/3) "Even in special education, our curriculum is based on Common Core standards. I'll have to teach about seasons to a child who doesn't know his own name. I'm expected to teach To Kill A Mockingbird to a classroom full of nonverbal students, some of whom may be wearing diapers and haven't learned their ABCs.

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Wordwall - Create better lessons quicker

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Was holiday really relaxing? Did you experience any stress during your vacation?, Are you happy to get back to school or not? Why?.

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1940s NYC | Street photos of every building in New York City in 1939/1940

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MyStorybook.com - Make Your Own Storybook for Free

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This free new tool makes storytelling fun again!

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An audio tour of Montana's four major ecosystems