Learn English with Lucky

If you've searched online for teaching materials at some point in your career, no matter how long you've been a teacher, you've surely come across Teachers Pay Teachers. It's a great site for getting lost on a Sunday afternoon, or at 2 a.m. if you're not careful. According to their web site, 5 million teachers used the site in the past year, there are more than 3 million resources on the site, and one billion resources have been downloaded since its inception. That's billion with a "B."  A former New York City school teacher, Paul Edelman started the site in 2006 and it's grown to be one of the highest traffic sites in the world. As of today, it's ranked 1,218 in the world and 449 in the United States. I've seen it rank as well as low 200s in the US... These are incredible stats when we consider the fact that there are about 400 million active sites in the world today! Earlier this year, I finally launched my own store on Teachers Pay Teach...

When we went into confinement here in France, I found myself browsing many American Facebook pages (mostly teaching) and spending way too much online. But among the gems I found during this time was www.boomlearning.com . Their “Boom Cards” are online interactive games created by teachers for their students. Teachers can monitor what games the students have played and see how well they have done. They can also share and sell the games they’ve made (and accompanying materials) on the same platform. I was immediately hooked. I needed something to help me keep my private students’ attention for hour-long classes once per week. We were doing live Bingo and “Treasure Hunts” where they found items around the house like socks and salt, but I knew I’d need something more exciting. Eventually, I increased classes to twice a week, and 1.5 hours; I credit the Boom Cards for keeping them actively engaged.  H ow do the cards work? Teachers either buy or create these online educational games. So...

Here's our latest video! I will post a few more over the summer... I hope you are enjoying your holidays!

We've got 50 videos now on YouTube, so if you haven't seen our channel lately, please take a look! I've recently added some themed videos on animals, food and the weather. Each has a version for maternelle/Cp/CE1 with no text and another for primary with text. I'm making them very simple, with the words repeated many times!  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkjtingV03sD373QuLL_s-g/videos These videos also follow the same vocabulary in my most recent Boom Cards. I've explained more about them in this post, and here is a link if you want to see: https://wow.boomlearning.com/author/learnenglishwithlucky?ref=5 I've also added two GIFs that tell a child whether he or she has gotten something correct or not... The first one says "Sorry!" in a sad voice. They both have music. Please let me know what you think! I will continue to add more, especially  over the summer. I am working on another video with Lucky as the star...

Lucky et Kelly à la maison... C'est ma nouvelle video pour les enfants. Gratuit sur YouTube ! Lucky and Kelly at Home... This is my newest video for children. It's free on YouTube! Also, see Lucky's new Boom Cards!

With the confinement, I am struggling to find ways that I can hold my lessons without the children being stuck in front of a screen for an hour... The first week we played Bingo (Loto) and they enjoyed that, but they are just sitting there... This may be the solution: a Treasure Hunt in English! It's very simple... I created a short video that I showed, while pausing along the way. Each screen showed what item the children's team had to find. I used these words: sock spoon paper towels sponge pen pencil fork book shoe shirt soap eraser key tape hat coat You don't need a video to do this... You could surely just hold a page to the screen with the words to find... But if you want something with the words pronounced and a vocabulary sheet ready to print here is a link to my Teachers Pay Teachers store... Included: Individual Student Video #1 (eight words) + answer video Individual Student Video #2 (eight words) + answer video Team Video (8 words fo...

Bonjour!  (en anglais en bas) Voici une petite vidéo de 57 secondes que j’ai faite pour le plaisir après que le fils d’un ami a laissé une voiture Matchbox chez moi. Lucky est parti à l’aventure avec! Profiter! C’était amusant à faire... J’espère que mes élèves auront un peu de vocabulaire pendant nos vacances. Voici le scénario: Lucky, il est temps de rentrer à la maison! Allez! Lucky, où vas-tu ? Lucky, non. Pas le cirque ! Non, Lucky. Pas la ville ! Non, Lucky. Pas la caserne de pompiers ! Non, Lucky. Pas le match de foot. Oh, OK. Tu as besoin d’essence ? OK, tu dois aller à la pharmacie. D'accord. Non, Lucky ! Pas l’aéroport ! non! Pas l’espace ! Lucky! Ah, bon garçon, Lucky ! Reste à la maison ! J’ai posté une autre version (avec du texte) sur TpT ainsi. Merci d’avoir visité! De nouvelles vidéos sont affichées tout le temps. S’il vous plaît vérifier fréquemment! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This is a little 57-second...