How to improve storytelling: During the previous weeks we have been dealing with storytelling activities for children in class. First, we took some videos of Michael Rosen, who is an English children’s novelist, as a good example of storytelling. Then we analyze curiously the characteristics that made Rosen´s stories catchy for children and even for […]
Read MoreNowadays, the problem related to education that concern of everyone is to improve the level of English in the classrooms. There are lots of research works about the best way to teach English to our students. Twenty years ago, we only learnt English using books and practising with some exercises filling the gaps. Fortunately, that […]
Read MoreDuring this week, we have been working on telling stories strategies. I have discovered that we have different methods to work on the same story. On one hand, we can divide the characters between the students. I think this is a very motivational method because the students can feel involve in the story, and in my […]
Read MoreOn this week in class we were dealing with Nursery Rhymes. These are songs written as poems structures for pre-school children (from 2 to 6 years old) and normally expressed through movements originated in Great Britain from the 18th and 19th Century. They are used in every daily classroom of the English speaking countries and […]
Read Morehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X08zzXWzag I’m sure many of you have seen this video in Facebook or in other social media and maybe you liked and you agree with it. It talks about the artists, any kind of artist and what they do. And you might say, “What does it with the subject about? It’s about literature. It talks […]
Read MoreBefore this week, I did not know about storytelling and much less how to use it in class. So I am going to start telling what is Storytelling. Storytelling is narrate a story in a different way and always from a narrative point of view. It is a technique that you can use in class to tell […]
Read MoreI have to recognize that phonetics has always been the least appealing aspect of learning/teaching the English language for me. Being a Spanish speaker, it is quite scary when the very first thing you are told to learn by heart is the IPA chart, specially if your teacher’s accent had nothing to do with the […]
Read MoreThis week we had some really interesting classes, but one of them was more interesting than others for me, it was a class in which we were talking about storytelling. In that class we were discussing about some characteristic that a good storyteller should keep in mind, like for example the use of onomatopoeias or […]
Read MoreHi everyone! Welcome again! Today I would like to devote this entry to talk about a topic which I consider is quite interesting, “Subversive messages hidden under infant literature”. It came up a few days ago, in our lesson focused on Nursery rhymes. The lesson was divided into three stages. The first one […]
Read MoreThroughout this opening post I will try to analyze one of the initial concepts we studied in the subject and to expand personal ideas about it that could be useful for all of us. Our personal point of view One of the first points of the topic The discovery of Children´s literature was the definition […]
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