Teacher Pages

Here are some websites connected to Bruce Moon's presentation on Google job searches:

www.google.com

Google Job Search Directory

Job Search Engines

• SimplyHired.com
• Indeed.com
• Jobster

Jobseeker Resources

• Job-hunt.org
  • Job-hunt.org-California

Maps.google.com

 Here are some job-related activities from the Manythings.org site:

Jobs Concentration game

Jobs Matching Exercise

Scrambled Jobs Words 

Jobs Anagrams

Jobs Video (view at home)

Jobs Vocabulary- Use the pull-down list to do many activities

VOA Special English- Economic story on job losses

Foreign Workers in the US- VOA story from 2001

Here are some ELLO conversations that talk about jobs. Don't forget to check the questions and vocabulary explanations on the right hand side of the page.

Bad Jobs

Job Options

Cool Jobs

Jobs (This is and older lesson on the site and works a bit differently. See the link for the transcript above the screen)

Part-time Jobs

Spelling City  Test 6 A.M    Test 6 P.M..

Wednesday P.M

Beehive

• Personal stories - Choose "browse by personal story" in the upper right hand corner
• Job Interview video

Thursday A.M.

BBC Grammar Challenge

• Zero article
• Verb, object, to +infinitive

Beehive has: 

• personal stories about people and their careers. It's interesting to learn how people got the careers they have. (Click on "Browse by Personal Story" in the right hand upper corner
• a section on applying for a job, including a video on the job interview

There's lots more. Explore it and prepare for a job.

Grammar Challenge is a weekly grammar "game" that uses English learners to teach grammar points.

BBC Learning English has lots of activities and interesting things to do related to learning English.

www.manythings.org is a great site with lots of activities especially for beginners and advanced beginners.

Here's a great  collection of tutorials for learning Picasa.

Here are some resources for using Smartboards:

CATESOL 2008 Smartboard workshop

Smart Technologies Smart Notebook Lessons page

Smart Notebook Activity creation guide (PDF)

Speller Software download- A free spelling activity addition to the Smart Notebook (This looks VERY COOL and makes me wish I had a Smartboard....)

Smartboard Teacher Exchange download site

Mr. Shurley ESL