A COUPLE OF POSSIBLE OF BLENDED

LEARNING SEQUENCES

1. A CULTURE TOPIC TO PLAN A TRIP TO

2. USING INTERNET FOR CONTROLLED PRACTICE

A CULTURAL TOPIC
Teacher elicits ideas on a culture topic and pre-teaches vocabulary
Students work in the class on a reading topic, e.g London, and do some reading exercises
Students go online to find out tourist information in.
Students post their ideas on a class blog
Students meet in class to discuss the ideas on the blog and plan trip to.
Teacher picks out examples of language on the blog/ in the discussion and gives feedback
Students use feed back to make their own podcast/write up a plan for a trip to

Using internet for controlled practice

This is much simpler-students do an ebased digital exercise on a grammar point
and discuss the answer together

Possible flipped classroom ideas:

Students research a culture topic and share with class:

teacher focuses on the structure of the discussion and feeds
in vocabulary and grammar as needed

Students find five new words from a website suited to their

level and teach them to their friends

Students look up grammar rules and come to class with two

examples sentences that show a difference (siple present vs
present continuous)

Some references
www.visuword.com
www.padlet.com

www.prezi.com
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/articles/chris-Baldwin-learningtechnologies-classroom-a-whirlwind-tour

http://nickpeachey.blogspot.com/

Some thoughts on possible use of IT in class

Websites (information)

Search for information

Search for word
Compare information
Use information (to prepare for a speech or a piece of writing)

Websites (interactive)

Practice language (controlled practice: vocab, grammar gab fills, etc.)

Practice spelling
Collaborate (wiki, blogs, Skype)
Upload some sort product (pictures, Facebook, YouTube, record and draw, etc.)

App (tablet, smartphone)

Present and practice language (matching, reading, etc.)

Collaborate and make product

Projectors

Show information
Support teacher presentation
Support students presentation

White-and blackboard

Show information
Support teacher presentation
Support students presentation

Publisher websites and CD

Practice materials (typically grammar and vocab)

Extend practice (typically, more reading and writing)

The websites that provide or link you to audio

materials

http://www.eslpod.com/website/index_new.html
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/
http://eslnews.org.nz/

http://esl.culips.com/

The websites that provide or link you to

reading materials

http://www.eslreading.org/
http://www.eslfast.com/#A
http://www.rong-chang.com/qa2/
http://www.mightybook.com/free_to_read.html

The websites that provide or link you to video

materials
http://www.englishmedialab.com/
http://www.online-languages.info/english/video.php
http://www.english-online.org.uk/begvideocourse/begvideo10.htm

The websites for collaborative writing

http://titanpad.com/
www.bitstrips.com

www.storybird.com
http://www.mixedink.com

The websites for teacher references and

enrichment
http://www.usingenglish.com/
http://eltj.oxfordjournals.org/
http://iteslj.org/