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. 

The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence.

Hello everyone,

We've been thinking about how the television and particularly the big company Disney, affects children. Then we found a really amazing book that make us reflect and investigate this topic. Is written by Henry Giroux a succesful pedagogue that have published tens of books all over the world.

 In this case, as we have mention, the focus is Disney and childhood. This company offers and image of innocence, and image that could be fake. That's what Henry explores in this essay, making a deep investigation, quoting people that have worked for this company and even quoting Walt Disney and his contradictions. 

We recommend this book for everyone, but specially our own classmates, because as a teacher we have a powerful tool in our hands; the future society. So we have to be prepared about what is good and what is not good for our pupils. We're sure if you read it a lot of ideas will come to your head. See you on the next publication.

Cat and mouse go to London

Transport survey

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     Age: 4-6 years

·       Organization: group, whole class

·       Aims: To ask and find out how people come to school; to ask and find out how long the journey takes; (to compare journeys and mean of transport), present Simple.

·       Language focus: Present Simple, places of the city, parts of days, transports,

·       Materials:  essential: photocopies of survey table.

  How do you come to school? I come by bus….

·       Procedure: 

1.    Divide the class into groups of 4-6.

2.    Draw the table on the board as above.

3.    Ask the children to copy the table and to write the names of members of their group in the first column.

4.    Elicit and practise question children need to ask to complete the table.

5.    Demonstrate the activity with one child. 

Ø  How do you come to school? I come by bus….

6.    Children take turns to ask and answer questions in their groups and complete the table.

Vocabulary swap

Transport survey

·       Age: 4-6 years

·       Organization: group, whole class

·       Aims: To recall and practise aying four items of vocabulary from different lexical sets in a rhythmic way; to ‘teach’ the items to friends.

·       Language focus: places of the city, parts of days, transports,

·       Materials:  essential: Essential: vocabulary swap cards.

Transports:  Bus, plane, ship, bike, car, train, car, motorbaik, boat…

Parts of the day: morning, midday, afternoon, evening, at night.

Parts of the city:  square, street, skyscraper, streetlight, telephone box, church.