PAINTER

Painter: VAN GOGH





I´ve chosen this picture because I think it´s a good idea that children can do something similar with spots and stripes.

You can explain also the different colours, and they can use the different combinations.

SARA MURILLO MARQUES

READING TECHNIQUES

READING TECHNIQUES

-Skimming

Questions:

•       What are the animals that appear in the text?
•      Children should read the text and then, they should match the mouse name with the corresponding mouse picture (Although, this activity is connecting with intensive reading technique).

-Scanning

Questions:

•          What different kind of mice appear in the text?
•        Match these informations with the corresponding mouse:

                  Dormouse                    .                          . They can climb very well.

                  Harvest mouse            .                           . They are popular pets.

                  House mouse               .                          . They weigh six grams.

                  Jumping mouse           .                            . They live for about three years.

                  Pygmy mouse              .                           . They have long back feet.

  

-Intensive reading

Questions:

•          What is the favourite food of mice?
•          Where do the mice live?     …

•          First: Children read the text; Second: The teacher asks some questions about the text.

•     Task:    Completing a table:

                        Mice                                  weight              features              food

      

                    Pygmy mouse

                    Jumping mouse

                    House mouse

                    Harvest mouse

                    Dormouse

-Predicting

Questions:

•          Before reading, teacher asks some questions, like: What do you think that these mice eat or live  and so on.

           

We think that with these activities you can understand and learning the different reading techniques.

Irene Casanova Peño y Sara Murillo Marques

Activities about different teaching methods.

.Questions:

1. - It has been said that the Grammar-Translation Method teaches students about the target language, but not how to use it. Explain the difference in your own words.

This method (Grammar-translation) is properly when you teach the grammar. Because although you translate all the grammar, you can´t communicate well, and for this reason you don´t learn with this method to communicate properly.

The important thing is develop the communicative competence.

2. - In a Grammar- Translation Method, grammar is treated deductively; in the Direct Method, grammar is treated inductively. Can you explain the difference between deductive and inductive treatments of grammar?

Grammar Translation – Deductive (Generalizationà Specifications, activities...).

Direct Method – Inductive (Specifications, activities…à Generalization).

In the first one (G-T) is deductive because the teacher explain (translation) all things. And in the second one, are the children who learn theirself.

Ex (G-T): Italy is here (map).

Ex (DM): Where is Italy in the map? Somebody know?

3. - Which of the following techniques follows from the principles of the Audio- Lingual Method, and which ones don´t? Explain the reasons for your answer.

We choose the paragraph B, because in this case is the most similar to Audio-Lingual method. In this method the teacher always is a model for imitation. Also, children or students repetition and imitation and the have dialogues memorization.

5. - Asher believes that foreign language instruction can and should be modeled on native language acquisition. What are some characteristics of TPR that are similar to the way children acquire their native language?

TPR (Total Physical Response) is a useful method for children when they learn a first language. Because children imitation the direct behavior that the teacher directs them. Also, children listen and speak in a enjoyable way. And for this reason, they learn properly a L1.

7. - A lot of target language structures and vocabulary can be taught through the imperative. Plan part of a TPR lesson in which the present continuous tense, or another structure in the target language, is introduced.

We teach something with TPR method without use the imperative with the children. We can do this method and also you use the imperative but in a different way.

Example: If we could teach the relative clauses, we will tell children for example, “Stand up the girls who wearing jeans”. You teach the relative clauses and also, you use the TPR (with the imperative).

Belén López-Roberts, Cristina Vieco y Sara Murillo.

SONGSHEET

I CAN'T HEAR YOU:
 
 
For this activity the teacher has this action:

- Count to three
- Raise your hand
- Move your toes
- count to five
- Drink the sea
- Touch your nose
- Touch the sky
- Clap your hands
 
1º When the teacher says the action, the children should show the respective pictures or they should make  gestures.

2º Children should order the pictures when they listen the song.


 
Sara Murillo, Cristina Seijas e Irene Casanova.

Listening Activity

LISTENING ACTIVITY

Children will listen an activity. This activity talks about different aliens who are in a pub.

1-Before listening

- We put some pictures and children should surround it when they listen the word.

- They should asssociate the picture with the sound.

2-While listening

-Children should do a TASK :

Children will listen the names of aliens and they will listen the actions, colours, ..., about the different aliens. Then they will do the task with this information.

3-After listening

- After listening and doing the task, children should paint a picture in black and white. And they should paint the picture with the information about the task.

Irene Casanova Peño y Sara Murillo Marques.

English Resources in Infant education

Hello!

I have been looking for a lot of pages about resources in English which can be used in Infant education.

I only found a pretty page, this is the following: http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/index.htm
I hope that this page will be adequate and good too.

From my point of view, I´ve chosen this page as  there are a lot of resources (Discover & Explore; what´s that word; Scientific kids; Fun & Games) which you can use with children in the class. Apart from that, this resources talk about the enviroment. 
And it should also be considered that today in schools have science as a subject. Because of mainly schools are bilingual and for this reason, I think it could be a useful page.