Best iPad Apps for ESL Teachers #15 - CamScanner HD

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Camscanner HD is an awesome tool for ESL teachers. Many times teachers need to project student work, texts, etc. on a projector, and this tool makes it easy.

One thing I really love about this app is the ability to crop scans, manipulate them, annotate them and more. Also, this amazing app amazingly takes out background colors and bad lighting in photos to make amazing images for classroom use.

One good way to use it would be to simply scan an exemplary student paper and put it on the board as an example, or use it to annotate a reading that students have done.  Best of all, the app   is FREE!


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Here is the classroom activity for After Earth with Will Smith with a worksheet for the passive forms and writing/discussion.

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Oblivion looks like a great movie with Tom Cruise. This activity uses the movie,pictures, vocab cards and a worksheet to help students to practice the present progressive tense in a fun, interactive way that is more like a game than just an exercise.

How to use the worksheet:
Download the Worksheet Here  (Please note, it will look funny on the downloader, but in Word it's fine).

1. Cut and Distribute Pictures to students
2.  Play the trailer and have students sequence the scene in order (They may need two times). You may want to run this part as a game. First team in order wins. 
3. Distribute vocab cards and have students place vocab with the correct pictures.  You can run this as a competition as well. First team with correct 
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5. Students complete worksheet with fill in the blanks.
6. Teacher reviews answers.

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Reported speech using noun clauses is a very difficult concept for many students to understand. I hope that this tutorial will help you to figure it out.

Basically, reported speech works like this:

"John is your teacher,"  I told Jennifer.  = Quoted Speech
I told Jennifer that John was her teacher. = Reported Speech

The difference between the two is the verb after John and the pronoun before father. The verb in quoted speech changes when the reported verb, "told," is in the past tense. If it is in the present tense, the verb from the quoted speech will stay the same.

Also, the pronoun has to change from "her" to "your" because we are not talking to Jennifer anymore. See the video below for more details.

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