Monday, August 23, 2010

English Board: I need your help!

Brad and I are both in charge of putting together English bulletin boards for our students roughly every month-2 months. I have a little board that's about 3x4 feet. For the 1st couple of months I did a board that showed different areas of Colorado and had a little Colorado word search worksheet for the students to fill out if they wanted to for a sticker from me. (I have a sticker sheet that I use to help motivate them to raise their hand in class, talk to me outside of class etc.)


For June and July I put together a board for the World Cup. 

Sorry it's so small! It's the best picture I have at the moment. I have the flags of all the countries that were in the tournament around the outside, a schedule on the lower left, a picture of the Japanese team, a map showing where all the countries are that were participating, a short English blurb on the World Cup and a handout. 

And since we've been out of school for a month, I need some ideas on what to put up in September. I was thinking about doing something about the similarities and differences of English vs. Japanese schools. For example: Japanese schools start in April and end in March and have a 1 month break in August (with lots of homework). American schools start in August and end in May with no homework over summer vacation. Japanese public schools have uniforms and most students have school lunch, which takes place in the classroom. American schools have varied school lunch/paper sack lunch that takes place in the cafeteria etc. BUT I'm having trouble figuring out how to do this with little to no English (English levels are still pretty low at my school).

Does anybody have any ideas or websites that they know of to come up with a board using little to no English and with a fun game/worksheet to include with it? Any ideas are welcome! If you want you can email me at bwkgand@gmail.com

Thank you!

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