Thursday, August 8
The first activity of the morning you know it has to do with vocabulary. The sun and the clouds, which were empty on the first day, now are full of interesting words that have been drawing attention to each of us: evensong, Toff, brolly or hubby are some of the terms that we will not longer forget .
Thursday, we make first a small debate in class: which do you prefer, dogs or cats? We make two groups, one supporter of puppies and another prefer cats. From here, each of us has to discuss with the partner about this: which of these animals is better or which company gives less problems. In pairs, we have to argue and give our reasons to try to convince the other person that our choice is correct.
Then, we have to do three groups: one with people who have dogs, other group with peopel who have cats and one for people who do not have pets. In these groups, we initiate a debate about the corrections that the teacher should do: when to do it, the reason for correcting and who should make them. Amid the debate, the teacher says the word carota, a term that brings all what we should review in the activities carried out by students .
C-content/argument
A-accuracy/use of grammar and vocabulary
R -range of language
O-organisation/paragraphs ( intro , main body and conclusion )
T- task Achievement
A- appropiacy ( register / style )
In the second session of the morning, we discovered a fascinating activity: Cuisenaire Rods. The Cuisenaire rods are normally used in the world of mathematics, but, lately, also used in language teaching, especially the so-called Silent way method that uses silence as a teaching technique. The teacher conducts the necessary silences in his speech and thus invites the student to speak once that he or she feels safe in the development of the task . The Cuisenaire rods can be used to create stories, to learn vocabulary, intonation, spelling ... On our YouTube channel about Bell Teacher Campus, we have several videos with the activities that made Anna Young session with Cuisenaire rods.
Activities with Cuisenaire Rods
Here we leave some of the links we recommended our profe.
Speaking Activities
Speaking extra
Reading extra
Spelling City
Afternoon : workshop with Anna Young ( Splng , Spelng , Spiling ... A creative approach to spelling ) . Activities with letters to build words .
Today we work with all of the words you select in our mural vocabulary. We put them on the table, beside a picture of a traffic light. If you know the meaning of the word, place it near the green traffic signal. If you do not know, red in color. At orange, we put those terms with which we have doubts. Among the groups, try to remember the meanings of all the words.
The light
More activities to develop vocabulary:
-A person has to give the definition of the word that touches and others have to guess what it is.
-We place all the words on the table. One fellow thinks and defines a word. The others have to quickly grab the card with the word corresponding to its definition.
Game-points: draw on paper 25 points. We need two contestants and a referee. The referee reads definitions and the contestants have to guess the word. Person who can draw first a line between two points. Win who ends up making a square.
Poems-named: create poems with the names of classmates. Here I leave you the poem made about me ...
We ended the class with delivery of certificates and giving to our wonderful teacher, Anna Young, a tiny detail (full of affection). Next, we place the farewell ceremony at the Auditorium.
In the afternoon, last excusión the beautiful town of Bury St Edmunds
And finally, awesome farewell party!
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