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Learning where different countries from all over the world are located on a map is quite a simple issue, even for a little child. Don't you believe me?
Then, watch this:

Wow!. Now, it's your turn!

This is the third school year that my students go to Málaga Airport to carry out a survey about travelling.
The main aim of this assignment is to collect information so as to find out why people travel. Well, I'm not telling you the truth... the real aim is to get them to speak English. By asking different people questions concerning their trips, they have a great chance to use English outside the class; face to face interviews make them practice what they have been learning. They love this activity and that´s another reason to do it every year.
The full activity is here .
This time they have gone a bit further, most of them recorded videos of the interviews. Students never stop surprising me.

As I promised in a previous post, here you have some of my students' works:

Blanca

Paula y Raquel

Pablo y Borja

Mindmapping is really useful in teaching and learning. It reflects the way the brain works and can help students organize their ideas.
Mind maps were developed by Tony Buzan who "wanted to know how to use the brain most effectively in order to cope with all the learning we have to do".

They are a powerful tool for:

-taking notes
-doing a project
-writing an essay
-new vocabulary
-summarizing information
-giving a presentation
-explaining grammar
And many more..

How to do it?

Write the main idea or topic in the middle of the page, start a main branch on a new line radiating out from the key word and add some other ideas on smaller lines coming off the main branches.
It is a good idea to use lines, colours, arrows, pictures or some other way of showing connections between the ideas generated on your mind map; by personalising it with your own symbols and designs it will be easier for you to understand and remember things.

For further information:

Maximise the Power of Your Brain - Tony Buzan MIND MAPPING

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newISS_01.htm

For creating a mind map:

Wikimindmap

bubbl.us

mind42

Good article, isn't it? Written by a good student as well!

I'd like to thank Antonio Solano for this fun link
Great idea to use other such interisting links in order to motivate our students to do their homework, don't you agree?

They had to:
-identify the films above
-say what kind of films they are
-choose one and write about its plot, main characters and review.

Once they have done it, they will create a mind map about films just here

They will include:
-different types of films
-films posters
-a link to Wikipedia
-another link to a site with interesting information (plot summary, video clip...)
-their opinion

Students' works coming soon.

Can you identify the different places? Do you know where they are?
Click where you think they are located and do it as quick as possible!

How many points did you get?

https://www.crazygames.com/game/traveler-iq-challenge

Note: I'd like to thank Emily North for providing me with a new link, the previous one was broken :)

Thank you to Mónica and Elena.They did a good job.

WELL DONE!