Teacher Tips with Clyo

  Hello there!  Today we embark on the first trip most of us take when we start our English learning... well the second trip, first is usually to the store to buy a notebook which we'll resent the second we start filling it with verbs (shoutout to my students). Today we're learning the ropes of the simple present tense. Now you may be thinking, "teacher Clyo, isn't this a bit too simple?". You might be right but you might also be wrong, it is a simple topic but it has so many uses that you'd be surprised as to how much of a regular everyday conversation is made of Simple Present sentences. So with that in mind, let's go back to the basics.

Hello, hello... (is anyone else singing this after that Tiktok trend?) One of the most difficult parts of teaching English as a second language is finding adequate material for our lessons, especially because our students want topics that are relevant and simple that they can easily relate to their everyday lives and our job as teachers is being really careful to give them content that is age adequate but still interesting. And here is where my favourite broadcasting company (sorry Televisa) comes in. The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) has dedicated itself to give us material and content that we can use in our lessons. I'll leave you this tip today because if you need listenings this is the best place to find them. Fuente: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/features/childrens-stories/rainyday 

Hello there! I was cruising the internet the other day when suddenly I found myself in Twitter surrounded by these green, gray and yellow square grids. So of course, being the noisy person I am, followed the hashtags to the answer of this new trend that was stalking my timeline.  The answer to this incognita is called Wordle and is a word game first created by the New York Times which consists in a new word each 12 hours.  How do you play it? And most importantly why do I think it helps in education?  The game is simple in itself. A hidden 5 letter word for which you have 6 tries to find. Once you type the first word the letters will change colour according to the degree of accuracy you've placed the letters with. If you were correct the letters will turn green, if the word has the letter in it but in the wrong place they will turn yellow, and if it's not in the word it will turn gray in both the game and your keyboard. And so you continue trying until you hit the word of...