A father-of-six has made his retro gaming dreams a reality by building an entire 80s arcade in the basement of his family home.
Jeremy Wagner, 48, of Warrenton, Missouri, is the proud owner of the Vintage Vault arcade. The 1,100sq foot space features 44 games cabinets, three pinball machines, pool and bumper pool tables, an air hockey, a vintage soda machine, a gumball machine and a bar area – as well as high score leaderboards for each game.
Quiz on gaming. CLIL elements – Maths and History. Reading, Writing, Speaking, Listening. Team Work.
Aidan Jackson, 18, from Cheshire, England, suffered from a potentially life-threatening epileptic seizure while playing Fortnite ‘duo mode’ online with Dia Lathora, 20, from Richardson, Texas.
The pair connected online playing Fortnite – and it was Dia’s quick thinking that Aidan was saved in time and taken to hospital.
Super cool excuse to talk about benefits and threats of gaming. And a chance to learn about stuff that makes your students tick!!!
DESPITE being born without any sex organs, an 18-year-old girl remains confident about dating. Jyoti was born ‘intersex’ – something she defines as ‘not having the typical binary sex organs or parts’.
Jyoti started to develop as a boy in utero for around 12 weeks before the process suddenly stopped – since then, she has identified as female and has taken oestrogen since her early teens.
Residing in Hopkins, Minnesota, Jyoti has never let her condition hold her back – recently graduating from high school and attending college in the summer, she is now regularly dating.
This story is a great follow up to classes on plastic suergeries, genetic screening and/or abortion.
After creating a huge piece of content based on articles from Huffington Post and finding out that I won’t be able to share it with you guys, I got frustrated, big time… and decided that I need a little break.
I did. Couple of months of trying to figure out something new and here I am. Back in the game, with all new… Totally Inappropriate Listening Activities based on a YT show created by Truly.
They will all come in form of pdf presentations with a quizlet vocabulary set and answer sheet. You can either use them for your online or f2f classes.
The first is a story of Sativa, a 23-year-old making decent money selling pictures of her feet.
If for some reason you haven’t used National Geographic materials so far, it’s a huge mistake!!! The NG team have done such a great job creating the games and quizzes.
Last week I picked the Gross out quiz for a group of 4th grade boys. They had sooo much fun and learned sooo much. Not just English vocabulary, though.
It was a full blown CLIL lesson. Social studies, Biology, Health all in a short 11 questions quiz.
After the class we created a Quizlet with vocabulary that they found interesting/worth remembering. The finale was a writing activity titled: ‘Which s grosser?’
Every person in the classroom was supposed to come up with an impossible choice of gross stuff to choose from. Some of the most memorable ideas from the kids?
Which is grosser?
Eating moldy cream cheese or eating hot dog with maggots?
Smelling your dad’s sweaty T-shirt or smelling your mom’s poop?
This is such a cool idea for the first lesson in the New Year!!!!
Purchase The World in 2021 edition of The Economist. It’s filled with articles that your students will love.
My personal favorite is the Calendar with The Economist selection of events around the world. From 63rd Grammy Awards and electric SUV race in Senegal, solar and lunar eclipse, all the way to celebration of 30th anniversary of fall of Soviet Union.
Let your students read the calendar and have a after-reading discussion. Let ss share their opinions on the event that they think is most surprising, interesting, scary, exciting etc.
After that invite ss to write a similar calendar for themselves. Skiing trip in February? Birthay party in March? First barbecue in May? Nothing is certain this year and it makes this writing activity even more fun.
Also… Collect ss’s calendars and read them together at the end of the school year to see how many things actually happened. You never know with the Corona Virus still aroud.
You really can’t get it any more fun and simple. Perfect lesson for primary school students coming back from winter break. Pdf plug-n-play presentation to use during your online and offline lessons.
This pdf presentation is a material for a B1 online lesson based on a video from world famous youtuber and internet celebrity Zoella.
Start the presentation and let your SS watch fragments of the video to find out how Zoella answered the questions. After that have your SS answer the questions in pairs/groups/in breakout rooms etc.
Having done a couple months of online classes, I started to notice that there are quite a few things that make them more fun.
One of those things, is allowing students to draw on the screen. While most teachers block the annotate feature, I decided to use it during the classes. I tested it with ‘places in town’ and ‘clothes’ but I’m pretty sure you can use for any vocabulary topic.
First, you introduce the vocabulary in your favorite app. In my case, it’s quizlet. It allows doing a quick presentation and then students can play/practice the vocab in their own way. Learn/test/match mode… whatever. I usually give them about 5 minutes to play with the words.
Young people have been through a lot since the COVID-19 pandemic began: school closures, massive changes to how they socialize.
On top of that, #strajkkobiet and abortion discussion going on in Poland and unrelenting uncertainty about what comes next.
Up to one-third of parents say they’ve noticed their children’s mental health get worse. There are many ways parents and teachers can help children cope with the pandemic and other challenges of 2020.
don't overthink shit 
