NIAGARA FALLS state park LIVE.... in my CLASS!

You can't travel the world with your students.... 

but you can take virtual trips with them!

Well... this morning we had an appointment, a very important (virtual) meeting which had been set up months ago. 

At 12.30 our time we had a Skype conference call with Mr. Jim Hill, senior manager of heritage operations at the Niagara Park in Ontario. 

Jim works here! Now isn't this amazing!

Well... he was so nice to go to work a bit earlier this morning and at 6.30 am (his time) he called us, as agreed! My students were so excited... and so was I! I mean.. who wouldn't be?

Jim introduced himself and then he took the camera and walked around! This is what we were seeing

My students were really interested and asked a lot of questions! They were able to understand and communicate in English and this experience was really motivating for them and for me!

I highly recommend using Skype in the classroom through Microsoft education. 

Can't wait to experience more of this next year!

Thank you, 

Miss Alex

10.000 THANX!

E chi lo avrebbe mai pensato che un BLOG nato quasi per caso avrebbe avuto più di 10.000 visualizzazioni in DUE MESI???'

Sono felicissima!!! I am super HAPPY! 10.000 total pageviews in just two months! I would have never have thought that!

I have so much more to say and to share and I love the fact that you send me comments and questions and requests. Keep doing that! 

You can comment on this page, follow me by email, send me a message on my Fb page, or comment on Instragram or Youtube!

Thanks again for all the support! I have received messages from Italy, from the Usa, from the Uk, from Russia, from Belgium, from Spain, from Germany, from Argentina, from Mexico, from Australia.. and many more! Thank you so much!

Thank you, 

Miss Alex

MEGHAN AND HARRY: a love story

The countdown has started!

Yes, this is the ROYAL WEDDING WEEK!

Whether you are a British fan... or not, I am pretty sure you have somehow heard it, accidentally or not, on the news or saw people talking about it on television. 

Well, to be honest, I haven't really paid attention to gossips or to all the speculation that I am sure has been going on over this wedding. 

I do have to admit that I wasn't really a British history/culture fan until some years ago. I have always been more interested in the American history/culture. 

Well, things change. Well, we change.

Since I started teaching about British culture and history I discovered I really liked at first, and then I found out I actually loved it. And if you really like something... when you talk about it to your students, they will like it too or at least find it interesting. 

So this is what I try to do every day. 

And this is what I am going to do this week. 

I bought books and souvenirs about this 2018 Royal wedding, I watched videos and I edited them with Edpuzzle for my secondary school students. They will use their own computer, listen to the videos and answer the questions online and, of course, send the answers  to me. 

Here are the links:

Ed puzzle Windsor Castle exercise nr 1

Ed puzzle Meghan and Harry exercise nr 2

Ed puzzle Meghan and Harry exercise nr 3

Edpuzzle Meghand and Harry exercise nr 4

Ed puzzle Kate Middleton's wedding dress exercise nr 5

Edpuzzle William and Kate exercise nr 6

For my primary school students I edited a presentation with different worksheets which could be easily used in 3rd, 4th, 5th year primary school classes. These worksheets could be used all together or not. I am going to choose different worksheets for different classes, print them on A3 pages and then put together the whole story. 

Here are the worksheets:

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On Saturday 19th we are going to work on these worksheets and videos and while watching (part of) the royal wedding and...... we are going to experience a British cream tea!

Live British, feel British, at least for one day!

Enjoy it!

Thank you, 

Miss Alex