Bombay TV- (short) written or spoken texts

Bombay TV offers the possibility of  creating  short written or spoken texts by subtitling short segments of Indian movies.
Aim: students write or record their voices creating a short text.
Level: any

Procedure.  Students:

• enter the  provided Bombay TV link
• choose a segment of a film
• prepare a dialogue
• record or write their dialogue 
• send the video segment to your e-mail
• open e-mail and share your video with the class  

NOTE: you may give your students a subject for their movies. 

Click HERE to access BOMBAY TV

 See an  example below
Subject:  Dealing with problems

Personalize funny videos at Bombay TV by Graphéine - Designer graphiste

Thanks to Ricard Garcia, speaker at the British Council April 2013 training workshop, for providing me with this link.

Pronunciation. How do you say...?

How you say is an on-line tool that will help you to learn how to pronounce words.

Aim: students introduce words they do not know how to pronounce in order to learn them with the sound

Suggested procedure if you want to use this tool in your class

•  make a list of the words students mispronounce.
  
• group students in teams
• write the words on the board
• ask teams (in turns)  how a word is pronounced
• check the pronunciation by introducing the  in How j say
• give a point to the team that pronounces the word correctly

Access the HOWJSAY page by clicking HERE



IF your students are Spanish speakers, you may start with some (or all) of these words:

since, to determine, idea,  successful, vegetable, suitable (the "i" does not sound), debt (the "b" does not sound), plumber (the "b" does not sound), sword  (the "w" does not sound), answer (the "w" does not sound), biscuit (the "u" does not sound), receipt, recipe, words that end in -es (services, oranges, he fixes), component (stress in "po"), architecture (the K), busy, opposite, key.

Logistics Vocabulary: Letters E and F

Aim: students of transport logistics match definitions with the given words. The handout or the  flipchart contain a reading/matching task and  a defining  task.
Suggested procedure: students  match the words and their definitions and later they explain words to their classmates so that they guess the word.  The texts are definitions of words related to transport. They all start with the letters E and F

Words included in this task (all  E or F  words):

Economy of scale, embargo, EDI, factory gate pricing, feature, flatcar, full truck load, etc.

You can download the materials from the site by clicking HERE

Materials: 

• Possibility 1: Word document with definitions and match task + key for the teacher 
• Possibiliy 2/ Promethean flipchart:  
• Active studio Promethean flip chart to project in class. Students can come to the whiteboard and  move  definitions to match the correct word. 

• Also I provide you with a list of all of the words (from A to Z). This list has been compiled by Kate Vitasek

You can download the materials from the site by clicking HERE

Majora Carter: 3 stories of local eco-entrepreneurship

Culture and Leisure

Three Stories of Entrepreneurship and local ecoactivism 

 Listen to Majora Carter talking about entrepreneurship in the local communities

Majora Carter (born October 27, 1966) is an urban revitalization strategist and public radio host, from the South Bronx area of New York City.Ms. Carter founded the non-profit environmental justice solutions corporation Sustainable South Bronx  before entering the private sector.

If you want to download the vocabulary and the script, click HERE .




Click HERE to go to the original source

Questions: 


1. Majora Carter tells us about both how to avoid social exclusion and how to improve the management of cities so as to maximize taxpayers' contributions. Can you think of/ Are you aware of/ similar initiatives in your area? Tell us about them

2. One of the issues Majora Carter tackles is energy production and consumption. Can you think of ways of minimizing the use and waste of energy resources?  Can you, as an individual, contribute to saving energy resources?

3. Governments are concerned with their population's  eating habits and access to food. How do our eating habits and food budget influence our health and the local/global economy? How do the different approaches to food access affect our economy and other countries' economy?

Reducing costs. "Cost to Serve" tools. Transport Logistics

Aim: students watch a video on how to reduce transport cost by taking into account variables such as size and frequency of transport.

Cost to Serve sample task

Procedure: the handout I have created for this video provides students with  pre-watching, while-watching and post-watching tasks.
Level: students should have a general knowledge of logistics English before watching the video. See image of task to get an idea of the required level. 

 You can download the materials from my site HERE



You tube video 




For original video source  (Logistics Bureau in Australia) , click HERE

Logistics vocabulary letter D

 
Aim: students of transport logistics complete definitions with the given words. Reading task.

Suggested procedure: Students fill in the blanks with the given words.  The texts are definitions of words related to transport. They all start with the letter D.

Fill-in the blanks task (Vocabulary for letter D)

Words included in this task (all D- words):

Database, Declared Value, Delivery –Duty-Paid, Discontinuous Demand, Dispatching, Distribution Center (DC), Double Stack,  Duty Free Zone (DFZ):

You can download the materials from the site by clicking HERE

Materials: 

• Possibility 1: Word document with definitions and fill-in the blanks task + key for the teacher 
• Possibiliy 2/ Promethean flipchart:  
• Active studio Promethean flip chart to project in class. Students can come to the whiteboard and  move the words to the correct blank. 

• Also I provide you with a list of all of the words (from A to Z). This list has been compiled by Kate Vitasek

You can download the materials from the site by clicking HERE 
 

Logistics Vocabulary Letter C

 
Aim: students of transport logistics match words and their definitions.

Flipchart Activstudio Promethean Version Example

Suggested procedure: provide students with the words and ask them to define them or try to define them. Most students will guess the meaning of the words. Don't tell your students whether their definitions are correct. Then give them the matching task and give the students the opportunity to compare their guesses with the dictionary definition.

Words included in this task (all C- words) : 
Call Center, Cantilever rack, Cargo,  Carrier, Cartel, Certificate of Compliance,  Certificate of origin, CIF, Claim, Collect Freight, Component, Confirming Order,Consignee, Consignment, Consolidator,  Coordinated Transportation,  Customs House Broker,   Container, Continuous Replenishment Planning,  Conveyor, Cubic Space,  Customization, Cross Docking.

You can download the materials from the site by clicking HERE

Word Version Example

Materials: 

• Possibility 1: Word document with shuffled words and definitions to photocopy  + key for the teacher 
• Possibiliy 2/ Promethean flipchart:  
• A) Active studio Promethean flip chart to project in class. Students can come to the whiteboard and move definitions around. 
•  B) With the flip chart, you may also use the  "spotlight" or "revealer"  tools to cover the definitions allowing the students to see the words. Students  define a word while their  classmates guess the word that is being defined.  Then, you all read the  given definition and compare students' definitions with the dictionary definition.

• Also I provide you with a list of all of the words (from A to Z). This list has been compiled by Kate Vitasek

You can download the materials from the site by clicking HERE