PRODUKTIVE UNTERRICHTSEINSTIEGE

A wonderful book if you are interested in special lesson lead-ins. Unfortunately, the book is only available in German. 

Below you can see an example page, - one of my favourites. It describes how you can use a ball of yarn in a speaking exercise to produce a web. When somebody in the group speaks, they hold on to the yarn and then give the coil on to the next speaker and so on. In the end a thick web will (hopefully) have been produced. Students can thus see how much they spoke - maybe even in comparison with other groups? Did anybody not say anything? Well, then they will not be holding on to any piece of the yarn..

Here's a direct link to the book information at Amazon.

EINSTEIN

Make Einstein say whatever you want by using the link below. - Nice idea as a starter or lead-in maybe?

http://www.hetemeel.com/einsteinform.php

On the same page you will also find other images that you can put text to...

WORDLE

A wonderful page that makes a WORDLE (see picture) out of any text - typed or copy/pasted. You can use it as a lead in to any lesson. One idea is to use the first couple of paragraphs of a short story you are going to read and make a wordle out of it. Then let the students try and guess what the story is about...


Here's the link: www.wordle.net


Have fun :-)