lunes, 5 de enero de 2015

DRAMA: READER: CHLOE

The reasons why I have chosen this book have been

               -Some words can be illustrated or paraphrased so that learners can work out the meaning.

               -The story should also have a logical progression and it should lead to a satisfying conclusion.

               -Use illustrations to provide comprehension support to the story.

               -Use simple constructions.

               -Use short sentences

               -Don’t use too many unfamiliar words.

               -Use easier or already known words instead of more difficult and less useful ones.


DRAMA: STORYTELLING: THREE LITTLE PIGS

Basing on the criteria for choosing a book, the reasons why that I have chosen the story of Three Little pigs have been.

               -Use redundancy and explicitness to help the reader deal with unfamiliar items.

               -The story should also have a logical progression and it should lead to a satisfying                              conclusion.

               -Use illustrations to provide comprehension support to the story.

               -Use simple constructions.

               -Use short sentences.

               -Don’t use too many unfamiliar words.

               -Use easier or already known words instead of more difficult and less useful ones.


DRAMA: HANDOUT SECTION 4

This handout has different types of storytelling activities to work with children.

This handout I really like and I find it very useful because all activities is proposed in the handout are well explained and in all activities is indicated: level, age, organization, AIMS, language focus, materials, procedure, comments and suggestion.

The activities that more I liked were:

Finger story: this activity is to make a puppet theatre with the fingers while you tell the story. I love this activity because it is a different way of telling stories in class and I think that children will pay more attention to the story. I think this activity is appropriate for younger children who are beginning to learn English.

Feeze!: the next activity I liked most was Freeze !: this activity the children had to represent the animals of the story with mime, and when the teacher says Freeze all children have to stay frozen in the position in which they are. This activity seems very fun to learn English in class. I think this kind of activities do children learn English in a fun way and they enjoy it more.

The last activity that has caught my attention was Class Play: In this activity the children had to do a theatre play about a story that had already read them in class. I really like this type of activity because all the children in the class can participate together while they are learning English in a more active and participatory way. 

miércoles, 24 de diciembre de 2014

DIDÁCTICA: DESING A LISTENING ACTIVITY

This activity consisted of putting on a song and creating an activity for our classmates related to this song, so we could know if they had understood it or they had not. 
The song talk about the animals who live in a farm, and we think that this tipe of song are easy and funny for vey young children. 
This activity consists of cross out with a pencil the animals that appear in the song. 
i think that this type of activitys are very interesting for children becouse they learn and practice listening skills but more entertaining










DRAMA: READERS

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domingo, 14 de diciembre de 2014

SPEAKING ACTIVITIES

4. RELATIVE SPEAKING

There are 25 cards which have pictures about the vocabulary of jobs, places, machines and tools.
The teacher will give to her students’ one card which only the pupil who has it will be able to see. They will have to cover them.
One by one the students will have to explain and describe their cards and, the other pupils will have to guess the answer. The first player who guesses it correctly will get the card. If anybody can guess, the teacher will get the card.

Who has more cards at the end of the game, will be the winner.



9. FAIRYTALE DOMINOES

Before doing the next activity, we will have to explain the vocabulary which is going to appear in this exercise: princes, wolf, ring, eagle, frog…
When the teacher knows that everybody has understood the words she will be able to star with this game.
In this activity, there are different cards with this vocabulary and the teacher will distribute them to her pupils.
When everybody has their cards, the teacher will choose one of the students and he will start with the story.
What they have to do is, with their cards, make a domino based on one story. The first one will have to invent the beginning of the story and he will have to end it with a word which appears in other student´s card. And the child, who has that card, will have to continue with the story.
To help them, the teacher will have to put in the blackboard the pictures which appear in each card.



36. HEADS, BODY AND LEGS

In this activity we have nine bodies which are divided in three parts: their heads, their bodies and their legs. They are divided with a line so before doing the activity the teacher will have to cut this line.
After that, the teacher will give to her pupils the different part that she has and her students will have to walk around the class describing the person who they are looking for.
They should not show the card to each other until they are almost sure that they have found the right card.
The first trio who have the correct body, will are who win.
Finally, when everybody has found their bodies, each group will describe their pictures for the rest of the class.



27. WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER?

We are going to do this activity not only to improve our children´s speaking but also because is a good way to meet our schoolmates.
In this activity we have two types of cards. The first one only has periods of time and, the second one, has different experiences.
The teacher will have to separate her children in two groups which have those cards.
The groups which have the experiences cards will have to question to the other group when they have done what they have in their cards. And, the other group will have to answer using their cards too.
The player who has asked must decide if the answer is plausible or not according to their knowledge of the player.
If the answer isn´t plausible they have to looking for the correct one.

                     

31. WHERE AM I?

There are 16 cards of different places to do this activity. As the same as the first activity, the teacher will have to give to her pupils one of them.
When everybody has one card will have to describe one by one the place which appears in the card and the other children will have to guess the name of the place.



DESING A LITENING ACTIVITY




Questions:

               Before:

-What can you see in the picture? Can you describe me one alien that appear in the picture?

-Have you seen any aliens before?

-Where do you think they are?

While:

-Have all the aliens the same parts of the body?

-Do you think that any of these aliens is bad? 

After:

-Paint the aliens with the same colour that appear in the story.


-What your favourite aliens? Why?