Teachers' Box

The Teacher’s Menu

teachersimonealves — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 16:41:30 +0000

The week menu was prepared according to my personal tastes. Feel so exclusive! Thanks Top Flex 3! It’s time to start my new dietary habits!

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Breakfast	Tea, Soy milk and a piece of bread	Fruit juice and cookies	Bread and tofu and Soy milk	Soy milk, one piece of bread and tea	Fruit juice and cookies	Fruit and tofu	Fruit and cereal
Lunch	Salmon, rice, vegetables and fruit juice	Pasta, salad(broccoli, onions, asparagus), fruit juice	Rice, beans, meat and salad(pepper, lettuce and onions)	Chicken and salad (cabbage and mushrooms)	Rice, eggs, legumes and fruit juice	Rice and beans, chicken and fruit juice	Pasta in vegetal oil and fruit juice
Dinner	Salad(tomatoes, carrot and lettuce) and fruit juice	1 banana/apple and yogurt	Chicken and a tomatoes and cucumber salad	Fruit juice and yogurt	Tomatoes, lettuce, carrot and fruit juice	Vegetable soup and fruit juice	Diet cake and fruit juice
Snacks		A cup of tea	cookies		yogurt	Tea	yogurt

TF3 Project

teachersimonealves — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:45:53 +0000

The Unit 6 for TF3 starts discussing dietary habits, healthy and unhealthy food, healthy eating pyramid, etc. Students suggested the ideal week menu for their partners. Strategies were decided: the 1st step should be an interview with the “client”, to get to know his habits, preferences, possible health problems (diabetes, high cholesterol, etc) or any food restrictions. It worked really well and now my TF3 groups have a mission: to develop a healthy menu for me! I was interviewed and had to answer the same questions thay had asked their partners. The next step is to be in groups and prepare the menu for me.

Campo Grande Top Flex 3 – Saturday group interviewing me

Adults and games

teachersimonealves — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:19:13 +0000

My Flex/Top Flex students usually ask for game activities in class. This is paradise for a teacher, isn’t it? So I suggested my Flex 6 group last semester to have some game moments. But all games in the classroom must have a purpose; they can be miming games to practice continuous tenses, questions and answers to review, recycle or consolidate structures , board games for different purposes, etc. After trying all these things we all know they really work, I had an idea: to go bowling! It’s an activity adults could really enjoy. Some go bowling with friends on the weekend. So, why not go bowling in class?

Campo Grande Flex 6 Group bowling

To play it in class, we needed to adapt the rules of the game: According to the number of pins they knocked down, there would be a question. The questions ranged from the most simple, for students who got close to a strike, to the most complex ones . The questions were prepared by the students themselves in a previous activity in which we were reviewing structures.

It was a real good time!

Hello world!

teachersimonealves — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:31:35 +0000

Hello everybody!!!

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