1) The tablets are stored in a cupboard next to Mark and Fran in Sector 6. Users should get the key from Ana, Marta, or James and plug the tablets in when finished. 2) Teachers can use the tablets to show students websites like the student portal, BBC, and other sites for research, language practice, and recording. Tablets can also be used for Google Classrooms, Edmodo, and other learner training. 3) One activity involves students taking photos around the center with the tablets and having other students try to guess what the photos are of.

1. Getting started using the
tablets
Madrid Adults - Summer 2015

2. Before we start...
Where are they stored?
Next to Mark & Fran (Sector 6) here:

3. Before we start cont.....
Get the key for the cupboard from
Ana, Marta, James, etc
Please plug them in when you finish.
There is also a
trolley to carry them to class

4. On the outside

5. On the outside

6. Swiping
Try swiping:
left to right
from the very top down

7. Swiping

8. Control panel
Useful to:
● check you’re connected
● turn off sound
● block screen rotation

9. Buttons

10. Buttons

11. ● to use the internet:
o show students the student portal, flo-
joe, bbc, & other sites
o research (eg. for presentation) /
language practise (video, audio,
reading, speaking [recording]
Why use Tablets?
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12. o class pages - google classrooms
(under construction), edmodo, etc
o learner training
o because students use tablets /
smartphones every day
o have some fun / variation
Why use Tablets………………?
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13. ● What do think it might be? Speculate
with your partner using:
might / may / must / can’t be / etc.
Activities - GUESS THE PHOTO
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14. ● With a partner:
o find the camera on your tablet and
take a pic
o go and take three (or more)
close-up photos around the centre
o you have five minutes
GUESS THE PHOTO
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15. ● Swap tablets with another pair
● What do you think the photos could
be?
GUESS THE PHOTO
What was in the photos?
How did you decide what to
photograph?
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16. A quiz activity
● go to google chrome and type this in
the address bar:
Activities - READING RACE
todaysmeet.com/tablet
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17. Find the answer and post it on
todaysmeet.com/tablet
1. Who was the 12th President of the
USA?
2. Who discovered penicillin, and when?
3. Who invented the term ‘blog’, and
when?
READING RACE
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18. 4. What is the capital of Paraguay?
5. How many players are there in an
Australian Rules football team?
6. Who designed St Paul’s Cathedral in
London?
READING RACE
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19. 1. Zachary Taylor
2. Scottish scientist and Nobel laureate Alexander
Fleming in 1928
3. BrE /blɒɡ/ a website where a person writes
regularly about recent events or topics that interest
them, usually with photos and links to other
websites (Oxford Advanced Learner’s)
4. Asunción
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6. Sir Christopher Wren
READING RACE - Answers
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20. ● Find the camera and switch to VIDEO
● test it - record your partner and ask
them about their first pet
INTERVIEWING - WORLD VISION
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21. ● Now record an interview with your
partner. THEY MUST SPEAK FOR
LONGER THAN 1 MIN (total).
● Ask them:
o What is your vision of a perfect
world?
o If you could change one thing in
the world, what would it be?
INTERVIEWING - WORLD VISION
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22. ● swap tablets with another pairs:
o who talks about world peace?
o who talks about diseases?
o who mentions politics?
o which message did you like most?
INTERVIEWING - WORLD VISION
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23. DO RESEARCH FOR MINI
PRESENTATION
Groups:
A.thesaurus.com
B.vocabulary.com
C.quizlet.com
D.visualthesaurus.com
E.macmillandictionary.com/language-
games
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24. Books onshelves:
Further ideas
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