Spark Adobe materials

Witty Comics

Comics can be used as decoration for plain worksheets, or as conversation starters. They can also introduce new grammar in context.

"Yesterday" cloze text

Listen to the song and do the exercise below.

A trick with Learning Apps

One of the many cool features of Learning Apps is the fact that you can group apps into a sort of folder and link your students just to that folder. You can give it a background image and structure and rename it according to your needs, thus making sure that your students only have access to the apps you want them to see. Below is an example of an App Matrix.

LearningApps on literature

Guess the character's name before you run out of petals!
This could be used as an introduction to a literature lesson or to a reading lesson on the topic of famous literary characters.
It can be continued with an exercise on imagining a day in the life of specific characters.

LearningApp Malta

Welcome to Autumn!

Here you can find my latest image created via Adobe Spark.

It looks like this:

Avatars

This is an embedded Voki avatar, using embed.ly for the purpose:

I just made a new Voki. See it here:

http://tinyurl.com/y2mblfxz

Ed Puzzle

Below you can see a couple of EdPuzzle activities, which allow your students to watch a video and respond to some questions outside of the classroom. Almost any video can be used, as EdPuzzle allows access to YouTube, Khan Academy, TedTalks, NatGeo and many other video libraries.

Malta Warmers

WordArt.com can be used to create images made up of words that you choose. This is an excellent warmer activity, or a way of exploring a text.

Another type of online-generated warmer can be a Word Grid, created with LearningApps.

And a Present Perfect tense warmer on Malta:

Malta experiences by Roberta Basarbolieva