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Welcome to SPEAQ's resources guide for Secondary Teachers!

 

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Interacting Orally   -   Secondary Cycle One

Find Someone Who. . .
Class Talks (pdf)
Concept Map (pdf)
History-ESL
(pdf)

Writing Texts   -   Secondary Cycle One


Comprehension of Oral and Written Texts   -   Secondary Cycle One

Meet Sandra Weird (pdf)
Find someone who...

 

Let's Talk

A Handbook on Oral Interaction for Secondary

Let's Talk file (pdf) 22mg

Individual Posters (pdf)

Let's Talk videos (mp4)

1. Valerie        2. Toni          3. Monique

(also available on ZOOM (after registation)

 

SPEAQ-quests: investigate - participate - create

 

 


Learning and Evaluation Situations

Sharks (pdf)

Say No to Drugs (pdf)

Advertising 1 (pdf)
    
Advertising 2 (pdf)

Organ Donation (pdf)
    
Organ Donation, Materials (pdf)
    
Organ Donation, Evaluation (pdf)

Planning an English Day or Week in your school

SPEAQ_English_day_week.pdf

English Day by Day - a calendar of activities for ESL

SPEAQ's Secondary Calendar Project

Evaluation documents

MELS documents and related material

Quick links to the following are provided on the SPEAQ site:

English as a Second Language Secondary Cycle One

English as a Second Language Secondary Cycle Two

ESL Insights - ESL site provides various resources to support teachers and pedagogical consultants in implementing the Elementary and Secondary ESL Programs.

Training sessions: MELS information is available at http://www.mela.gouv.qc.ca/sections/offreFormations

An index of documents and information can be found at the MELS site:

Elementary  in French  -  available in English

Secondary     in French  -  available in English

 Quebec ESL links

 

Teachers Resources, Professional training, etc. from luc.lefebvre@cssamares.qc.ca 

New programme documents, etc. from the Quebec English School Network

New Directions for Success   - Documents  in English by the MELS and others for the English sector

Many documents and bookmarks are available. From Dominique Plourde, Conseillère pédagogique d'anglais, langue seconde, Commission scolaire de Saint-Hyacinthe, 

Cybersite -  ESL resources and links for teachers and students. 

"Suzanne Guay created this tool kit for the Montérégie Mandate, this tool kit has everything inside to help students and teachers cope with the reform (Secondary Cycle 1) " Mariève Gagné, conseillère pédagogique, CSMV

Grilles pour soutenir les enseignants dans l'évaluation des compétences disciplinaires

Grilles de Karen Lyons et Mariève Gagné pour l'ensemble des critères du programme régulier (TO INTERACT ORALLY, TO REINVEST UNDERSTANDING, TO WRITE AND PRODUCE TEXTS)

Grilles de Gillian Baxter pour mieux comprendre les critères d'évaluation (Core)
Grilles de Gillian Baxter pour mieux comprendre les critères d'évaluation (Enriched)

Grille pour évaluer la compétence 1 (To interact orally) élaborée par Suzanne Guay

Grille pour évaluer la compétence 2 (To reinvest understanding of texts) élaborée par Suzanne Guay

Grille pour évaluer la compétence 3 (to write and produce texts) élaborée par Suzanne Guay

 

General Sites with a variety of aspects:

 

Games:

Games: The ESL game boards found on this page are in the form of Microsoft Word documents.

Gameaquarium - links to free games

Activities

We All Need An Eco-Hero ! Wequest

Wonder How To  http://www.wonderhowto.com/

 

 Grammar resources

Basic grammar possibly to include in context for Secondary Cycle 1

The Indiana State University OWL contains over 75 worksheets on a variety of topics designed to assist ESL students.

The Internet TESL Journal's links

The English Institute - An Elementary English Grammar Book Online book: Word Order, Indefinite Article, Definite Article, Nouns, etc.

Guide to Grammar and Writing: Notes for grammatical rules and explanations, comments on style, and usage suggestions as well as quizzes

Verb tense tutorials and exercises

Tenses explained - advanced

Lists of grammar links by parts of speech or tense

Learning English tenses with cartoons, part of VisualESL.com - a site about learning English visually.

 Video-audio-text resources

Reading / listening sites

National Geographic
Time Magazine
Scholastic News
Newsround
Wayback U.S. History
Awesome Stories
UpFront Magazine
More Time For Kids
World Records
How Stuff Works

Advanced listening practice regionalized for accents- Check out the Canadian resources! over 1,000 listening activities with downloadable MP3 audio files, transcripts and interactive quizzes.

Using Newspapers in the ESL Literacy Classroom. ERIC Digest.  http://eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal

Each story module on the site below includes the full text of each story and interactive activities to test comprehension. The learner can choose to read the text, listen to the text, or view the broadcast through streaming video.

PASSAGES WITH EXERCISES

Links to Internet audio resources that may be used by ESL students and teachers

Texts for your students

You may download the response process handbook here ...

Watch scientific clips and develop the response process with your students.... Brain Pop MOVIES 

 



Website where texts are simple and interesting (for secondary students):
     http://www.howstuffworks.com/

A digital reading portfolio from Riveside schoolboard for elementary classes.     http://www.qesnrecit.qc.ca/portfolio/eng/drp.htm

A site with videos for class at the high school level: some have activities    http://www.tolearnenglish.com/english-videos.php

Here is a media link:    http://www.media-awareness.ca
and this lesson plan is a good example for secondary second cycle classes.
http://www.domainelangues.qc.ca/forums/esl/documents/alcoweb.pdf

Listening:

 

TV personalities ( to Student Resources)

 

Video archives: Viewing

Writing

PRACTICE WRITING sites:
Paragraph Punch
Using an Editing Checklist
Writing Tips
Ace Writing
Power Proofreading Game
Five Paragraph Essay Movie
Writing Process Movie
Similes and Metaphors Movie
Antonyms Movie
Writing Paragraphs
Plagiarism
Academic Integrity
ESL Bee
Writing Fun
Essay Punch
Essay Map
BBC RaW
Write a Myth
Writing From Woodlands School
Five Paragraph Essay
Write Your Own Play
Planning Your Writing Game
Writing Guide
Model Bank (Many Essay Examples)


Free to use media

Images, sound, videos, etc. free to use from the Carrefour éducation

and other sites

 

 
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