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Finally!
Are there any young englishpool students who haven't borrowed this book at some time?
Well, after over 12 years of almost constant lending, our most popular book from the englishpool library has finally had enough!
Thanks, People flip-book, for all your service!
Eiken Pre-2 Speaking Test Practice Q4 & Q5
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I Found an Old Talking Elmo
Last weekend while I was having a bit of a clean at home, I found an old talking Elmo. He was a little bit dusty and his batteries were spent ....so...I cleaned him up and replaced his batteries and here he is ready to join us as today's special guest.
Can you make out what Elmo is saying? Enjoy!
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Eiken Pre 2 Grade Speaking Test 英検準2級スピーキングテスト
As part of our Junior High School classes we've recently spent time practicing for the eiken speaking tests,英検スピーキングテスト, taking place soon. As time in the class is short, I created this little practice application for students to practice answering the 'opinon' type questions, typically 4 and 5 of the eiken test. At the moment I've only uploaded the pre-2, if you think it can be of help to you please click below:
https://www.englishpool.net/eiken-questions-pre2/
The idea is that you listen to question, and have a go at answering it. The more practice of these type of questions you have the easier it will be in the test!
On a Camping Trip
Recently in our Saturday morning Kinder class we started a theme of camping, based around the Potato Pal's, On a Camping Trip.
Here is a video of the book with the song.
Enjoy!
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英語で電気工作教室 Week 6
This was the final week of our English and Electronics Course (英語で電気工作教室). So it was time to put everything together and review what we have learned so far!
It was also the time to put the A into our STEAM course. As you my know STEAM in an education sense is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths. So hving concentrated on the STEM part in the previous five classes, today we decorated our robots. Marker pens, scissors, hot glues, crayons were made available and the children were free to give their robot a personality.
This student decided to turn his robot into a cat. Meow!
We then connected everything the robot, arduino and controller together using jumper wires. After quickly testing that everything was working as expected we had a lot of fun animating our robots. Check out the video of the above cat robot....
And then the course was finished. We boxed the robots, Arduinos and various components for the children to take home and show their parents.
If you'd like to find out more about future upcoming English and Electronics course please check the dedicated webpage:
https://www.englishpool.net/course/english-and-electronics
Thank you for reading!
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In the Evening
Last Saturday, in our Kinder class, we started the final book in the Potato Pals level 1 series. Here's a video of the song so you can practice at home.
Just need to find six spare dogs so we can do the 'walk the dog' action....
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Skidamarink a dink a dink
Valentine's Day is almost here, so today in our Kinder class we did the Skidamarink Song. Over the years this song has proved very popular and today was no exception! If you want to practise at home here is a video from the folks at Super Simple with Tobee and friends.
Before you ask, even after twelve years of using this song in my classes, I still have no idea what a 'skidamarink' is!!
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Making Towers from Paper Straws
Towards the end of last year, and as part of our upper-elementary school aged classes, I challenged each class to construct a tower using only paper straws and sellotape.
The reason for making the towers was that we were studying various famous towers around the world such as the Eiffel Tower, the Gerkin, the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, the Ostankino Tower and the Great Lighthouse of Alexandria as part of their textbook, Macmillan English. Unfortunately the children were not so impressed with these real world towers so get them more excited about the topic I let them build their own.
The results can be seen in the video below.
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Tea on Imakuma-yama (今熊山) and a visit to Kongo Falls (金剛の滝)
As part of our continuing series (including The THREE Little PIGS) of taking a hike in the great outdoor to enjoy a cup of tea and a snack. This video find us up on Imakuma-yama in Hachioji.
Happy New Year everybody!
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S-A-N-T-A
We started our Christmas lessons on Saturday. First song of the season was the S-A-N-T-A a festive variation from Super Simple Songs of the B-I-N-G-O song.
Video and link is below, enjoy!! And careful with those claps!
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She Sells Seashells on the Seashore...
Paul tries his hand, or should that be tongue, at the most well known tongue twister in the English langauge.
This video was made in response to our upper elementary aged students confusing 'she' and 'sea'. This is their homework!
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Hiking in Kamakura, with Scones, Tea and Peanut Butter
In this video Paul prepares some scones and samples some Marmite Crunchy Peanut Butter ( a gift from a Three Little Pigs cafe regular.) He also introduces some of the highlights of a relatively easy day trek from Kita-Kamaura station to Kamakura itself taking in the dizzingly high peak of Ohirayama (159.2m).
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Trick or Treat with Ozobot
Currently having a lot of fun with this Halloween activity from the team at Ozobot. The activity involves a brief introduction to the Ozobot color codes, with the aim of getting the Ozobot to collect as much candy as possible as it trundles around the neighbourhood Trick or Treating. The children only need to use 7 codes: slow, quick, fast, go left, go right, go straight and U-turn so even if they have never used an ozobot before it is really easy to pick up. Once they have completed their courses, we then have a competition to see whose Ozobot can collect the most candy...the record at this moment is 14.
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