THE LION KING

Put in practice with 5 or 6 years old

Pre-teaching

The children will be sitting down in the floor and the lights will be turn off.

In the blackboard will be already put some flashcards with the animals of the story.

The teacher will do a short explanation abput the name of the animals and including the sizes too.

For example; this is a big lion or this is a small hyena.

After that the teacher will give to each child a flashcard with an animal of it. In the flashcards it will appear different animals with different sizes. 

The teacher will ask to them questions about which animal and which size they have in their flashcard.

Once the teacher has asked most of them we will put all of children that have the same animal in the same group.

Actual-Teaching

The lion king story is quite complicated to perfomance in a short time. And it also has many characters so our idea was to adapt the story.

Monday 21 of September 2015

HOW TO TEACH PRONUNCIATION

Today in class we are done some activities to teach pronunciation. First of all the teacher has given to us some tongue twisters, for exemple:

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper Picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?


She sells seashells by the seashore.
The shells she sells are surely seashells.
So if she sells shells on the seashore,
I'm sure she sells seashore shells
After that we had to learn a story in groups and we had to try to understand the story at the same time that we pronunciate well. The story was called The boy who cried Wolf. Then, for proving that some pupils had to read this story in loud voice and the teacher said some thigs to improve. She reforced the pronuntiation, the entonation and the gestures while someone is telling a story.  In this class we learned that is very important to pronunce and entonate well because children are more concentrated when they see some diferent as a performance.

THE THREE LITTLE PIGS

Put in practice with age 5 or 6.

Pre-teaching

It's important to create an atmosphere where the children have to feel confortable and relax to listen a story.

The children will be sitting down in the floor, and the teacher will be sitting in front of them. 

The teacher will show them flashcards with the characters of the story. First of all the children just have to listen to her/him.

By this way the will know the characters before the teacher tells the story.

Now the teacher will show the flashcards again but the children will have to say the name of each character.

Also we will show them the real materials that in the story are going to appear, for example wood, straw, and brick.

Actual- teaching

While the teacher is telling the story its important to keep the children focus on it. But we have to remember that it's also important the children's participation and interaction.

Post- teaching

Once we have finished the story, we will do a dynamic activity with the children.

First of all we will ask questions about the story, if they've liked it, etc.

After this will show them the material again, and we will ask questions and they will have to answer true or false.

For example: the teacher will show the wood and will ask; is this wood? They will have to say TRUE.

Lastly the will draw the part of the story that they liked the most.

Our colourful world

PRE-TEACHING

When children enter in the class, the lights will be turn off. The teacher will ask to them what is their favourite colour, and they will try to say the colour in english, if not the teacher will repeat this colour well and she will  have got a lantern with shiny paper of diferent colours. She will focus on the wall with the lantern. To continue, children will repeat  the colour that is on the wall and when it will be their favourite colour they will have to go there and say it.

To finish the pre-teaching the teacher will sing a song about de colors and when it says the favourite colour of each one they will have to jump. You can find songs here:

But in class we sang this one:

Red red the apple is red, the apple is red red red.
Green green the tree is green, the tree is green green green.
Blue blue the sky is blue, the sky is blue blue blue.
Yellow yellow the lemon is yellow, the lemon is yellow yellow yellow.
Orange orange the pumpkin is orange, the pumpkin ir orange orange orange.



ACTUAL-TEACHING

For learning the colours is necessary to motivate the pupils, so the teacher will do some planets with the colours of the story and she will give to them one.

The voice sound is very important and teacher can  change the sound depend on the colour. When the planet of the story will be red children with the red planet will have to stand up and show it and this with the rest of the colours.

We think that  is a good idea for learning the colours if the interact and they feel that they are in the story.



POST-TEACHING

When the story had finished the teacher will prove if children have learned the colours, so the teacher can say one colour in loud voice and the have to touch something in the class of this colour.

Then the teacher can ask about the colours, and use some pictures, for exemple: What colour is the lemon?, What colour is the tree? What colour is the sea?... and they will answer.




It would be a good idea to repeat the pre-teaching song using the pictures and teacher can change the words of the song.

REFLECTION UNIT 1 - TEACHING IN THE PRIMARY CLASSROOM: AN INTEGRATED PROCESS

  LISTENING AND SPEAKING

Firt of all, we have to consider that students learning have some parts which will influence in their learning. In addition, each part has a part which will influence in students learning too.

In the next picture, we have all of the parts and subparts which will influence:



Firstly, he learning context has a vital importance in the children. It's neccessary that teachers will be real, natural and understable, due to, with this characteristics students will think that the "new" language will be near to them. Futhermore, it's important too, that students will be active by the proposal of the teacher, and the teacher use body language and visual aids.