Peter Smith

🇯🇪 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 30 yrs MFL teacher. Connecting students internationally from Day 1 gives daily purpose to foreign language acquisition.

[Dr Elaine Cox 🍃 💚 🍃🌽🥬🐦‍⬛🐌🇬🇧 @ElaineCox11]

How sad on this October day
To see our hedges shorn away
Small creatures would've liked to eat
The hawthorn berries, rose hips sweet,
Blackberries, nuts and sloes,
But through the blades the banquet goes.
Won’t somebody heed our words
And leave the berries for the birds
@PamAyres

[Schoolshape Language Laboratory.. @Schoolshape]

Assigning and assessing work for students of different abilities is a complex task which Schoolshape handles neatly on one screen #tefl #langchat #mfltwitterati #eTwinning #earlylang #flippedclassroom #humanize #lovelanguages #DLIC #language #curriculum #actfl #edutwitter

[Schoolshape Language Laboratory.. @Schoolshape]

Practice exercise: Spanish singular & plural. Worksheet contains auto-assess with results recorded on the teaching screen #LanguageLab #LanguageLaboratory #langtwt #lovelanguages #language #edtech #flteach #eTwinning #tefl #actfl #langchat #edutwitter #mflchat #mfltwitterati

[Schoolshape Language Laboratory.. @Schoolshape]

Interrogatives exercise made in Schoolshape Resource Designer #LanguageLab #LanguageLaboratory #langtwt #lovelanguages #language #edtech #flteach #eTwinning #tefl #actfl #langchat #edutwitter #mflchat #mfltwitterati #assessment #assessmentforlearning #assessment_evaluation

[Schoolshape Language Laboratory.. @Schoolshape]

https://t.co/zRQohTXk9b Listening practice with cloze comprehension test. #LanguageLab #LanguageLaboratory #langtwt #lovelanguages #language #edtech #flteach #eTwinning #tefl #actfl #langchat #edutwitter #mflchat #mfltwitterati #assessment #assessmentforlearning

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

American schools have enough to do, but should we prioritize MANNERS before knowledge in the early grades? #EduChat

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Therapy dogs waiting to start their shift at a children’s hospital.. 😊

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

Every fraction of a degree matters.

Every day matters.

Limiting global temperature rise is still possible, but only through concrete, urgent #ClimateAction.

[Dr Olivier Elzingre @OlivierElzingre]

As a language teacher struggling to get 3rd year language students to use the verb ‘to have’ when students say their age in French, this is very annoying 😂😂😂

[Peter Smith @PeterRLSmith]

@OlivierElzingre @a_happy_teacher That's a lot less than I have, but in this case less is more! 😂

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

Dear councils, 97% of UK meadows are gone. So if you have wildflowers like ox-eye daisies on roadverges and in public spaces, don't spray them with weedkiller or over-mow them. Let's give pollinating insects like bees and butterflies a chance 🐝

[Peter Smith @PeterRLSmith]

There's never been a better time to get kids talking to Pandas in German. #celebratespeaking

[Schoolshape Language Laboratory.. @Schoolshape]

This video shows you can create a simple dialogue in a worksheet. Ss can build asynchronous conversations on the same sheet using the pairing function, along with writing & cloze exercises.
#tefl #mfl #langchat #mfltwitterati #eTwinning #earlylang #lovelanguages #language #actfl

[German Embassy London @GermanEmbassy]

We're looking for the UK's most outstanding German language teachers for this year's #GermanTeacherAward.

The deadline for nominations is 10 May.

ℹ️ https://t.co/OCEXwckyCv

[Peter Smith @PeterRLSmith]

@Goodlawproject is supporting two climate change protesters who have been found in contempt of court for speaking about climate change as their motivation.
Please support if you can. https://t.co/Rk1IQycv6C

[Peter Dynes @PGDynes]

The records for April keep tumbling. This is at 1.3C - before El Niño has even developed. Can you imagine the summer months temperatures when the globe warms to 2C? On current trajectory- this doesn’t end well for agriculture or civilization.

[Nahel Belgherze @WxNB_]

BREAKING: Vietnam 🇻🇳 and Laos 🇱🇦 have both set a new national heat record today. This comes just 3 weeks after Thailand 🇹🇭 measured over 45°C for the first time in its history, setting a new national heat record.

Absolutely brutal.

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. RT if you agree 🌳

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

This is brilliant. We need lots more green spaces boosting biodiversity and benefitting pollinating insects like this inspiring wildflower meadow at @Kings_College, Cambridge. Let’s bring nature back 🐝

[UN Biodiversity @UNBiodiversity]

Nature-based solutions are increasingly seen as integral to climate and biodiversity goals. Examples include the creation or restoration of urban green spaces, forests, coral reefs, rivers, floodplains, and grasslands — to name a few.
https://t.co/LdNu3mukZd

Via @WBG_Climate

[Peter Smith @PeterRLSmith]

@VEverettmfl An unwanted tick-toc follower?!😂