martes, 29 de abril de 2008

CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

all the good activities are those ones that works according with the differents skills´ abilities, example I plann to my Ss a speaking activity called conversation club, and I have many different ones depending on the skill, then, the idea is to work directly on activities in which Ss are going to develop their language and also show a progress through different contexts during this acquisition process.
next I´ll name different class activities that I usually use with my kids
  • movie time (I apply all the language skills here, and you don´t have to watch all the movie, instead just a little piece and then give them some questions related with the movie´s context. they love it!)
  • show and tell (speaking, reading, writing. They have to look for something important for them, bring it to the class and then talk about it)
  • song club ( listening, reading. They must fill in the blanks, organize sentences in order write the hole paragraph, etc.. by listening)
  • reading time (this is to improve their reading comprehension which is very important fot them)
  • role play ( they have to create a story or dialogue and then perform)
  • and many more, the list is too long but those are important ones.

martes, 22 de abril de 2008

it is obvious that languages situation is going to make a big change in our country, now thats very good for us ´cause we´ve already are bilingual. but, then I´m just thinking how is it gonna be after? not as good as before, thought we can´t stop now, so just continue learning different things, maybe different languages; that´s my conclusion, other wise we´re gonna be behind all of that movement.