DIDÁCTICA: VIDEOS

British Council - Teaching Speaking Techniques (John Kay)

This video teaches different techniques for working speaking in class with students.

First explains the importance of having a class organized before you start, because that teacher and students will be more relaxed.

He also talks about which are better to work in groups, because that child can help each other. In older children, it is better to work in pairs.

When explaining something in class, it is important to know if all the children have understood that we know seeing if children do you have said. If a child has not understood it back to explain.

Finally explains that when we do activities with the children, we cannot talk at the same time, because we listen to what they say.

Teaching Activities - British Council - BBC

As the previous video, this video explains some techniques for classroom activities. The examples in the video are from a school in Thailand.

In this video we explained the importance of choosing the theme of activities in a careful way, should be a topic that interests them children to be motivated to do the activities.

Some of the activities shown in this video are for example a debate with older children is a very good activity because everyone has to participate. First are divided into small groups to see if they will be for or against the topic and then everyone has to make their point.

For younger children, the activity that offers us is, from the image of a story or text, children make predictions about what they think is going to happen, then the teacher reads the story.

Carol Read: Ideas for using flashcards

This has been one of the videos that I liked because I think that I can apply it in the classroom.

In this video, Carol Read explains various activities to use flashcards in the classroom with young children. I think that is a useful flashcard for use in class because it helps children learn vocabulary material and is an alternative method to learn and I think that they find it much easier.

Some of the activities presented to us are:

-Flash!

-Slowly, Slowly

-What´s missing?

-Magic eyes

-Lip Reading

-Flashcard riddles

-Flashcard groups

-Hands on heads

-Flashcard chain

- Kim´s game

Activities that I liked most were:

-What's Missing? Because it is an activity in which children have to be much focused and has to be very fast.

-Lip Reading: This is another activity that I really liked; I think it could work in pairs so that all children participate.

Carol Read: The secret of working with children.

In this video, Carol Read teaches a series of techniques and activities for teaching a second language to young children.

I found it very interesting because it teaches us how to explain a second language through songs, dances, and other different techniques that teachers can implement in the classroom.

One thing that I liked was that she explained the activity and then people doing activities with her, so much better understands the activities and the conference becomes more enjoyable