Segev Shalom English Staff

An Excellent Website

2010-04-23T00:20:00.000-07:00

Dear all,
When I was in the TESOL exhibit in Boston I came accross this very intresting website and I want to share it with you.

www.englishcentral.com
You can teach English through vidoes and practice speaking...

Meeting James Durst

2008-03-13T10:55:00.000-07:00

On March eleventh a group of students from Segev Shalom High School visited Kseife High School. The purpose of this visit is to see a concert performed by the famous folk singer James Durst, accompanied with two teachers; Manal Abbas and Mohammad Abu Leil. The singer performed many songs. He sang in English and other languages. The students enjoyed his performance and dazzling voice. They sang with him and frequently asked him question about his career, life, and the value of singing about "peace".

About James Durst:

"James has performed for audiences of all ages in 49 states and 45 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, Scandinavia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, in Russia, Azerbaijan, Japan, Korea, and most recently India and Israel. He draws from a rich and ever-evolving repertoire of distinctive original and collected songs in more than 2 dozen languages that reflect a global perspective and underscore the sense of interconnectedness we share with all of life. James engages each disparate audience in a participatory journey distilled from his travels, musically monitoring the pulse of the human condition, bringing us closer to our world and each other.
The interplay of his skillful, rhythmic guitar playing and strong, expressive voice provides a colorful palette which he uses to paint compelling musical pictures that encourage individual empowerment and compassionate relationships, while helping us to feel more hopeful about ourselves and our place on the planet. His performances for adults and/or children are spirited, relevant and often humorous.
James uses his role as minstrel to communicate global and social concerns common to us all, such as our environment, world peace and greater human understanding; while employing the uniquely synergistic qualities of word and melody to dissolve language, cultural and other barriers. Once, after a concert in Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, a woman who spoke no English found James backstage. Through an interpreter, she said "I didn't understand a word, but," touching the area of her heart, "I understood what you were saying."

Ten

2008-03-03T10:32:00.000-08:00

Unit 6: Under the Sea

Sea Monsters that Weren`t

Designing the Future

Writing a Formal Letter

Expressing Opinions

Writing a Good Paragraph

Punctuation Marks

For students who find it difficult to write please click here

Enjoy!
Manal

Yesterday

2008-02-28T01:10:00.000-08:00

Level: Intermediate
Grammar: past simple
Listen to the song carefully and fill in the missing words.Use your dictionary and give the meaning of the words in bold.
Find at least one synonym.

Yesterday Lyrics

Beatles
___________
All my troubles _______ so far away, Now it looks as though they're here to stay, Oh, I believe in _______. Suddenly, I'm not half the man I ______ to be, There's a shadow hanging over me, Oh, ________ ______ suddenly. Why she ______ to go I don't know, she wouldn't say. I _______, Something wrong, now I long for _____. ______, Love _____ such an easy game to play,Now I need a place to hide away, Oh, I believe in _______. Why she ______ to go I don't know, she wouldn't say. I ______, Something wrong, now I long for yesterday. Yesterday, Love was such an easy game to play, Now I need a place to hide away, Oh, I believe in yesterday. Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm-mm.

To listen and watch the song click here

Manal Abbas

Brick in the Wall- Teaching a song

2008-02-19T06:35:00.000-08:00

Level: intermediate.
Grammar: present simple, (do, don't).
Listen to the song carefully and fill in the missing words.
Use your dictionary and give the meaning of the words in bold.

Another Brick in the Wall
Pink Floyd

We_______ no education
We _______ no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
____________ the kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave the kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.
We _________no education
We _________no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
_________ ____ the kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave the kids alone!
All in all it's just another brick in the wall.
All in all you're just another brick in the wall.

"Wrong, Do it again!""If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any pudding. How can youhave any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?""You! Yes, you behind the bike sheds, stand still laddy!"

Rewrite the sentences in Italics in a positive way.
Remember! Use the present simple.
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
Why do you think we need an education?
__________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________

Find two words in colloquial English:_________ ,___________

To listen and watch the song click here*

Good luck!
Manal Abbas

Words

2008-02-15T13:48:00.000-08:00

Good to know!

The longest common word
"pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" (45)6
The two longest one-syllable words in English
"screeched" (9)2, "strengths" (9)2.
words which contain all five (or six, if you append "ly") vowels in alphabetical order
"facetious"1, "abstemious"4, "annelidous"5, "arsenious"4
words which contain all five vowels in reverse alphabetical order
"duoliteral"5, "subcontinental"5 "uncomplimentary"5
words which contain the longest strings of consonants14
"bergschrund" (6), "borschts" (6), "eschscholtzia" (6), "latchstring" (6), "weltschmerz" (6)
longest word with no repeated letters
"uncopyrightable" (15)4
sentence containing seven spellings of the [i] ("ee") sound
"He believed Caesar could see people seizing the seas."
sentence containing nine ways the combination "ough" can be pronounced
"A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughmanstrode through the streets of Scarborough;after falling into a slough,he coughed and hiccoughed."
longest word typeable on a qwerty keyboard with left hand9
"desegregated" (12), "desegregates" (12), "reverberated" (12), "reverberates" (12), "stewardesses" (12), "watercresses" (12)
longest word typeable on a qwerty keyboard with right hand10
"homophony" (9), "homophyly" (9), "nonillion" (9), "pollinium" (9), "polyonomy" (9), "polyphony" (9)
longest word typeable on a qwerty keyboard with alternating hands11
"dismantlement" (13)
longest word typeable on a qwerty keyboard on the top row ("qwertyuiop")7
"rupturewort" (11)
longest word typeable on a qwerty keyboard on the middle row ("asdfghjkl")8
"alfalfas" (11), "hadassah" (11)

Semantics

words with two synonyms which are antonyms
"cleave" ("adhere" and "separate")4

"cover" ("conceal" and "expose")13

"sanction" ("approve" and "prohibit" (colloquial))12

"transparent" ("hidden" (jargon) and "known" (jargon))15

"trim" ("garnish" and "prune")16
seemingly contradictory synonyms
"flammable" and "inflammable""toxicant" and "intoxicant"

Useful Links

2008-02-15T03:53:00.000-08:00

Teaching Vocabs
http://www.middlesmoor.com/teachers%202001/06%20teaching%20vocabulary.htm

Arthur Miller`s All my Sons
http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/drama/allmysons.htm

Using Film and TV
http://www.penguinreaders.com/downloads/prteachersguides/PRTGusingfilmtv.pdf

Developing Listening Skills
http://www.penguinreaders.com/downloads/prteachersguides/listeningskills.pdf

Placement Tests
http://www.penguinreaders.com/downloads/prteachersguides/placementtest.pdf

Graded Readers
http://www.penguinreaders.com/downloads/prteachersguides/PRTGgraded_readers.pdf

Tongue Twisters

2008-02-15T02:17:00.000-08:00

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumped and thundered threatening the three-D thoughts of Matthew the thug - although, theatrically, it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that the thirty year old thug thought of that morning.

There was a fisherman named Fisherwho fished for some fish in a fissure.Till a fish with a grin,pulled the fisherman in.Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.

How much wood could Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck, if Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood? If Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood, how much wood could and would Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck? Chuck Woods' woodchuck would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as any woodchuck would, if a woodchuck could and would chuck wood.

Bobby Bippy bought a bat.Bobby Bippy bought a ball.With his bat Bob banged the ballBanged it bump against the wallBut so boldly Bobby banged itThat he burst his rubber ball""Boo!"" cried BobbyBad luck ballBad luck Bobby, bad luck ballNow to drown his many troublesBobby Bippy's blowing bubbles.

Enjoy !

Manal

Segev Shalom School

2008-02-14T05:13:00.000-08:00