Our evaluation of ESL classes.

Hi Everyone! This is coming to the end. We want to evaluate our progress through the classes in this subject and how give us new knowledge that we can apply in our future as teachers. First of all, when we recently begin the classes we were a bit nervous because we didn’t know how was going to be.

 Now we can say that we have lived a bunch of experiences that make us feel confortable with what we’ve chosen, being teachers of english. It’s important to mention, that as teachers, we must keep improving oir skills and we have to adapt it to the children, because they have different learning rythms.

This subject give us a real vision about how we have to educate children in ESL and shows how the book can be used as a powerul tool that help children to learn new words that there’re struggle with. We also have improve the way we prepare the classes, with the material given by the teacher we have a lot of resources that help us to create new activities.

We are concious that we have an important task in our professional career, help and guide the future generations and we live in a society that is getting more developed each year and teach english is to make a gift for children, because they will be able to use it in different situations. But this point requires a high level of comprehension of how we have to educate. We’ll keep improving.

Thanks for read this,                                       
   See you!

                                                                                                  Daniel and Aida.

Yellow submarine

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

First Pre teaching

Second Pre teaching

First Post teaching

Second Post teaching

Rest of the presentations.

Hi everyone! This post is dedicated to you, we want to thank you your expositions, we learnt a lot and we had a good time as well. You expositions are really innovative and give us ideas to keep developing a or teaching skills. We’re glad to share the same classroom with all of you. And, of course, special thanks to the fabulous native speakers that help us to improve our level of english, we will keep learning of you.

See you soon!

Daniel and Aida

Multiple intelligences.

Howard Gardner developed the theory of multiple intelligences. Every human has skills, abilities and potential, but they’re very different in each one. The intelligence is something that can improve with training as someone that goes to the gymnasium to rain develop the muscles a person can develop the mind. But as we mention this is different because every person has divergent characteristics. So we cannot affirm that someone is more intelligent than any other one, because the intelligence is not possible to measure in all the areas. To make conscious about how is the human mind, Howard Gardner develop his theory dividing the intelligence in different types:

• Visual-Spatial: Imagine in someone that has to orientate through a map. This makes someone have easier to understand what his position in the map is.
• Bodily-kinesthetic: All sports players need this intelligence to develop their activity, from football players to dancers.
• Emotional: The ability of understand the other (interpersonal) and yourself (intrapersonal), very important to keep social relationships.
• Musical: Develop your mind to play instruments and even compose your own music, this needs musical intelligence.         
• Linguistic: The way you are able to write a text and understand text from other writers that helps to comprehend different written information easily.
• Logical –Mathematical: Understand the mathematic language and apply it to a specific activity like architecture or physics, for example.

Daniel and Aida.

Reilusionate

Material used to prepare the activities

We take in count the advices that teacher gives us to make our umbrella to prepare the activities that we were going to put in practise with children. First of all we must to say that Carol Reid’s book, 500 activities for the primary classroom, was very useful for us and we found out a lot information that supported us to structure the activities. 

We use the other material, Teaching Languages to young learners, but we focus on the book because the information seems to be more clear and organized.

 We must add that we visited different blogs to see how some activities worked out. We found different channels in youtube that is important to emphasize, so we are going to put the links below. 

We hope you find it useful! See you next time!   

Youtube channels:    

Daniel and Aida. 

The very hungry caterpillar

Food song

•        Age: 4- 6 years

•        Level: A1.1

•       Organization: pairs, whole class.

•       Aims: To memorize a word list related with food. To learn the way to answer to short questions of the Present Simple (Yes, I do/ No, I don’t).

•        Language focus: Present Simple, fruits, parts of days, days of the week.

•       Material: Real objects (Pieces of food)

·       Procedure:

We start with a funny presentation and then introduce the words we use in the story through a song.

Do you like apple? Yes, I do.

Do you like lollipop? Yes, I do.

Do you like apple with lollipop? No, I don’t.

Do you like pear? Yes, I do.

Do you like chocolate? Yes, I do.

Do you like pear with chocolate? No, I don’t.

Do you like ice cream? Yes, I do.

Do you like broccoli? Yes, I do.

Do you like ice cream with broccoli?  No, I don’t.

Do you like bananas? Yes, I do.

Do you like soup? Yes, I do.

Do you like bananas with soup? No, I don’t.

 Guess what?

•      Age: 4- 6 years

•      Level: A1.1

•      Organization: we show different pieces of fruit.       

•    Aims: To identify and recognize the name of different pieces of fruit, develop five senses.

•      Language focus: Present Simple, fruits, parts of days, days of the week.

•      Material: The members of the group will interact with the children, describing different pieces of food and children have to guess it.  Then we ask for a volunteer, and she/he will choose a fruit to be guessed for the pupils.

•      Procedure:

The members of the group will interact with the children, describing different pieces of food and children have to guess it.  Then we ask for a volunteer, and she/he will choose a fruit to be guessed for the pupils.

   It’s a big fruit

Find the hidden fruit we ask for the children to close their eyes and we will hide a fruit in somewhere and they have to fine the fruit and guess the name.