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WebEnglish Newsletter October 28th

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A Teacher’s Insights over 40 Years #12

After 40 years of teaching, I have retired from the classroom with many lovely memories, a few embarrassing regrets, and loads of acquired insight into what teaching is really about. In short snippets, I am sharing some of these insights with you. This is #12. Individualisation - As a Simple Necessity As my readers certainly have realised by now, the …

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A Teacher’s Insights over 40 Years #12

Updated: ALL Fairy Tale Themes

Fairy Tales, in General

A theme page with lesson plans and materials about less well-known fairy tales for all levels. More Fairy Tales: Little Red Riding Hood,
Sleeping Beauty,
The Three Billy Goats Gruff,
Cinderella,
The Emperor's New Clothes,
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Rumpelstiltskin,
Goldilocks, And the Three Bears


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Fairy Tales, in General

Current Topic Halloween, Oct 31st

Halloween 1-3

A Theme Page about All Hallows' Eve, Halloween, on October 31st, suitable for level A1, year 1-3 in Sweden Related Theme: Halloween 4-6

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Halloween 1-3
Halloween 4-6

Halloween 4-6

A Theme Page about All Hallows' Eve, Halloween, on October 31st, suitable for level A1.2. - A2.1., year 4-6 in Sweden Related Themes: Halloween 1-3, Halloween 7-9

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Halloween 7-9

A Theme Page about All Hallows' Eve, Halloween, on October 31st, suitable for level A2-B1, year 7-9 in Sweden Related Themes: Halloween 4-6, Halloween B1, Salem Witch Hunt

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Halloween 7-9
Halloween B1

Halloween B1

A Theme Page about All Hallows' Eve, "Halloween", on October 31st, suitable for level B1, 9 and above in Sweden Related Themes: Halloween 7-9, Salem Witch Hunt

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From November Calendar

Guy Fawkes' - Bonfire Night

In 1605, thirteen young men planned to blow up the Houses of Parliament. Among them was Guy Fawkes, Britain's most notorious traitor.

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Guy Fawkes' - Bonfire Night

Remembrance Day, Nov 11th

Remembrance Day
Remembrance Day is also called Armistice Day, Poppy Day, or Veterans' Day. An armistice is a formal agreement of warring parties to stop fighting. Armistice Day is commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany at Compiègne, France (Wikipedia)

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World Kindness Day, Nov 13th

World Kindness Day is an international holiday, formed in 1998, that is observed annually on November 13 as part of the World Kindness Movement.

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Kindness

International Day for Tolerance, Nov 16th

International Day for Tolerance
In 1994, UNESCO marked the 125th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi's birth paving the way for the proclamation of 16 November as the International Day for Tolerance International Day for Tolerance, 16 November

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Thanksgiving, Nov 25th

The Day of Thanksgiving, a k a "Turkey Day" is celebrated on the 4th Thursday in November. Here are some videos you can show your students to learn about this tradition.

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Thanksgiving

New Links

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Fairy Tales, in General
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Engineer's Thumb - Audiobook - YouTube (53:27) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Audiobooks in English. (If you want to listen with subtitles, turn on CC.)

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Baamboozle

Games | Baamboozle
Over 500,000 games made by teachers. Sign up for free to play in class.

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El-Rey

Learn English with TV Series | Anne with an E

Rumplestiltskin_-_Anne_Anderson
Learn English with TV Series | Anne with an E - YouTube (18:43)
This Learn English with TV series lesson is a special one because it's been highly requested! We hope you'll enjoy learning with this wonderful series,

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Reading For Pleasure: Reading Questions

Reading For Pleasure: Reading Questionshttps://childrenreadingforpleasure.blogspot.com/2019/06/reading-questions.htmlThe idea is that the children read the questions and then think about and discuss them on the way to assembly, break, etc.

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Little Red Riding Hood
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Best English Idioms about Life

Best English Idioms about Life Learn English for free! PurlandTraining.com

Increase your vocabulary by learning these 20 common English idioms about life: Best English Idioms about Life – Interactive Test Take our online test. Type you…

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Short stories for English classes - with audio

Short stories for English classes - with audio
Short stories for the English class, graded for intermediate and advanced learners

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Sleeping Beauty

Thanks for Reading Bonus

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27 Interesting Facts About Words

That You Probably Didn’t Know.