Hello, I´m Jaime and this week I´m writing about two activities that we have done during the two previous weeks. The first one is called Aladdin´s workshop. It consisted in creating an activity related with Aladdin´s Disney film for children of 4th of primary in small groups. Nevertheless, what make this activity special is that […]
Read MoreHi everybody, today I would like to share a small reflection about our workshops projects with you. As those weeks we had been working in our workshops related with Aladdin I was thinking about a possibility of doing something similar in a real school, I consider the workshops we are doing are a great motivational […]
Read MoreHello, I´m Jaime and today I´m writing about the class of this week. Before starting the description of the activities we did during that class, I have to say as an introduction that during the previous weeks we have seen loads of different ways about how to include poetry in classrooms. On Monday, our teacher […]
Read MoreHi everyone! Today we, Azu Rodríguez and alicia.lopez, would like to share with you an experience that we carried out two days ago, which we consider could be useful for you (especially for those of you who could not come to our lesson). Although for some people it might sound a little bit strange, we […]
Read MoreHow 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 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 […]
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