No Bake Cheesecake Recipe

The finished product ;)

½ cup sugar

8 oz cream cheese

8 oz whipped cream

1 tsp vanilla

1 graham pie crust

1 packet of clear gelatin

fruit topping og choice

Blend cream cheese until smooth, add whipped cream, sugar and vanilla until fluffy. Spoon into crust. Chill at least 2 hours and top with fruit topping. Enjoy your no bake cheesecake!

Three brothers suffer a heart attack on the same day in Italy

Three brothers in Rome had a heart attack all on the same day! Weird isn't it?

Guido and Alberto Garofalo were in a family picnic when Guido, 45 suffered a heart attack and dropped dead on the ground.

His brother Alberto, 54, rushed to his brother's side to help him but perhaps he was overcome by his emotions seeing his brother lifeless so he too suffered the same fate.

The third brother however was not present at the picnic but visiting their aged mother in the hospital in Catania and didn't know what happened to his two brothers. But he too suffered a sudden heart attack.

Lucky for him he was at a hospital so he was taken immediately to the emergency room where the doctor stabilized him. He survived but did they tell him about what happened to his two brothers? He might get another heart attack if they tell him.

ESL GAMES AND ACTIVITIES FOR YOUNG LEARNERS part 1

I had been making ESL materials for a Filipino teacher in a school in Turkey called ISIK OKULLARI for her activities with young ESL learners for quite some time now. Based on the pictures she sends me when I make her reports and videos, it looks the kids have the grandest time when they do my activities. I'd like to share them with you here too and hope it helps you make your ESL lessons fun as it is educational. Have a blast!

Pronunciation Baseball

Draw a baseball diamond on the board. Divide the students into two teams. Each team takes turns “at bat." One by one, ask students different pronunciation questions. (These can be individual words, like "pneumonia" or "premise" or "indict" or "salmon", ones that are not pronounced like they are spelled; alternately, you can give two similarly spelled words with different pronunciations, like "tough" and "dough", "steak" and "beak", "blood" and "brood", "through" and "thorough").

Here are the rules:
1. Whenever a student is "at bat", he or she cannot be helped by other students.
2. If the student answers the question correctly, the team advances one base. (A total of four questions must be answered correctly before the team "scores" a home run).
3. If the student is incorrect, the team gets one "out." Once the team has three outs, the other team will go up to bat.

4. Play until you run out of words. It's good to prepare enough words so that everyone has at least one chance up at bat. Write the words in big letters on pieces of paper beforehand, but you could also post them on the board.

Kangaroo Kang

Instructions:

1. To encourage movement in the class, have students organised into teams.

2. Each team is given a balloon to place between their knees they are not allowed to use their hands to touch the balloon at anytime.

3. One person from each team must jump like a kangaroo forward to a chair in the front of the room, their they must pick with their hands a word, they then turn around jumping back to the next person in their team.

4. This continues until all the code words have been collected and all of the team members have jumped to the chair.

5. The words must then be placed in a correct order and the captain must then read it out to the teacher.

6. Rewards are given to the winning team. Fun, loud and competitive way to engage students in a physical manner with language.