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Objective A: Comprehending spoken and visual text   According to the MYP language acquisition guide (2014):  “Comprehending spoken and visual text encompasses aspects of listening and viewing, and involves the student in constructing meaning and interpreting spoken and visual text to understand how images presented with oral text interplay to convey ideas, values and attitudes. Engaging …

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The more I use Evernote, the more I love it! I wrote about using Evernote to help students acquire a second language before and now I encourage teachers to use Evernote to organize their teaching resources.  The powerful secrete tool is to use Evernote extension, Web Clipper. This extension can be easily downloaded for your …

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Objective B: Comprehending written and visual text  According to the MYP language acquisition guide (2014): “Comprehending written and visual text encompasses aspects of reading and viewing, and involves the student in constructing meaning and interpreting written and visual text to understand how images presented with written text interplay to convey ideas, values and attitudes. Engaging with text …

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The unit planning process is like trying to solve the rubik’s cube! Unit planning is not merely for documentation. It helps teachers to focus on holistic teaching and learning, instead of just developing numerous class activities over a period of study. As a teacher to a new school or teaching a new course, I know …

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I discovered this TED talk through Twitter, “Breaking the language barrier” by Tim Doner @TEDxTeen 2014. After watching it, I was truly impressed and shared with my students, who have been really inspired.  In this talk, Tim mentioned that he was able to remember words in French, but he couldn’t really have a fluent conversation …

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Photo Credit: thisisbossi via Compfight cc Lino allows users to post digital sticky notes on a virtual cork-board. Users can share ideas by posting texts, images, videos, links, and any type of files to the sticky notes. Sticky notes come with different colors. Users can change the color and the size of the font. Additionally, the …

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