dimarts, 15 de juny del 2010
dilluns, 14 de juny del 2010
dijous, 3 de juny del 2010
Introducing Cultural Contents in English Lessons
Introducing Cultural Contents in a class of Infant education or Primary can be very beneficial, because at that age children absorb all the information that we provide them. This subject can come in handy to explain other aspects of different countries, learn about other lifestyles and at the same time increase their vocabulary.
To begin with, the best resource we can have is to sing a song altogether, so that students can start getting in touch with the language and help make any possible shyness disappear. The teacher would have the job to encourage and motivate children, singing is a fun way of learning. With songs you are able to have a lot of interaction and get much benefit, work on different topics, like colours, animals and numbers. Its one of the most productive ways to work with youngest pupils. There are many songs and rhymes to teach children, here we could make use of the ICT, as having computers and projectors in class we can listen to songs or videos directly from internet.
Another way of introducing culture contents can be working with the climate. Depending on the age we are going to work with, we would adjust the level. Climate is different in each country, we could compare weather in Spain with United Kingdom. With the youngest students it would be a great way of introducing colours, for example: yellow-sun, blue-sky and with Primary they could start making sentences, example: today is sunny, in England it rains a lot. With this topic we can expand their vocabulary.
The Royal Family would be another topic to study and get to know a bit about Great Britain, and at the same time they could study all the members of their own family tree. Students from Primary could do projects about the Royal Family, looking for pictures on the net or magazines and create a big family tree mural. Infant education could start learning the main members of their own family: mother, father, sister, brother or make a drawing of all their own family and write underneath who is in the picture: mother, brother,etc.
As they are learning a culture of a different country, its good to know that the United Kingdom is formed by four nations, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. A group project would be to draw and paint in a giant size poster of all the United Kingdom, and each corresponded name and then hang it on the class wall, so that every time the teacher mentions a different place, like London, famous for being the capital and having Big Ben, students can identify it on the map. All ages could learn the colours of different flags. In little groups they would all make the different flags, Wales with its colours and the dragon, Northern Ireland, Scotland, England and the United Kingdom. It can be a way for introducing other countries in future projects.
When it comes near to holidays, normally its because some kind celebration is coming soon, like Christmas or Easter. Children always enjoy them so working with that topic is a great way of catching their attention. Easter time is popular in the United Kingdom, everybody participates and spends a lot of time preparing it all, especially for children. So we would use English to do crafts class. We would have to speak slowly and with very short sentences and using vocabulary they already know, but introducing a little bit more, for example: egg, Easter, paint, holiday. Every student would bring their own egg, and paint with different colors and ornaments, spots, stripes, faces.
Introducing cultural contents in an English lesson you can use many resources, and work with them individually, in pairs or groups, but we always have to have each student in consideration and his o her possibilities, and make sure they understand everything and that at the end of the day the English lesson has been beneficial to each one of the students.
Introducing Cultural Contents in a class of Infant education or Primary can be very beneficial, because at that age children absorb all the information that we provide them. This subject can come in handy to explain other aspects of different countries, learn about other lifestyles and at the same time increase their vocabulary.
To begin with, the best resource we can have is to sing a song altogether, so that students can start getting in touch with the language and help make any possible shyness disappear. The teacher would have the job to encourage and motivate children, singing is a fun way of learning. With songs you are able to have a lot of interaction and get much benefit, work on different topics, like colours, animals and numbers. Its one of the most productive ways to work with youngest pupils. There are many songs and rhymes to teach children, here we could make use of the ICT, as having computers and projectors in class we can listen to songs or videos directly from internet.
Another way of introducing culture contents can be working with the climate. Depending on the age we are going to work with, we would adjust the level. Climate is different in each country, we could compare weather in Spain with United Kingdom. With the youngest students it would be a great way of introducing colours, for example: yellow-sun, blue-sky and with Primary they could start making sentences, example: today is sunny, in England it rains a lot. With this topic we can expand their vocabulary.
The Royal Family would be another topic to study and get to know a bit about Great Britain, and at the same time they could study all the members of their own family tree. Students from Primary could do projects about the Royal Family, looking for pictures on the net or magazines and create a big family tree mural. Infant education could start learning the main members of their own family: mother, father, sister, brother or make a drawing of all their own family and write underneath who is in the picture: mother, brother,etc.
As they are learning a culture of a different country, its good to know that the United Kingdom is formed by four nations, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. A group project would be to draw and paint in a giant size poster of all the United Kingdom, and each corresponded name and then hang it on the class wall, so that every time the teacher mentions a different place, like London, famous for being the capital and having Big Ben, students can identify it on the map. All ages could learn the colours of different flags. In little groups they would all make the different flags, Wales with its colours and the dragon, Northern Ireland, Scotland, England and the United Kingdom. It can be a way for introducing other countries in future projects.
When it comes near to holidays, normally its because some kind celebration is coming soon, like Christmas or Easter. Children always enjoy them so working with that topic is a great way of catching their attention. Easter time is popular in the United Kingdom, everybody participates and spends a lot of time preparing it all, especially for children. So we would use English to do crafts class. We would have to speak slowly and with very short sentences and using vocabulary they already know, but introducing a little bit more, for example: egg, Easter, paint, holiday. Every student would bring their own egg, and paint with different colors and ornaments, spots, stripes, faces.
Introducing cultural contents in an English lesson you can use many resources, and work with them individually, in pairs or groups, but we always have to have each student in consideration and his o her possibilities, and make sure they understand everything and that at the end of the day the English lesson has been beneficial to each one of the students.
dimecres, 2 de juny del 2010
Introducing Cultural Contents in English Lessons
Introducing Cultural Contents in a class of Infant education or Primary can be very beneficial, because at that age the children absorb all the information that we provide them. This subject can come in handy to explain other aspects of different countries, learn about other lifestyles and at the same time increase their vocabulary.
To begin with, the best resource we can have is to sing a song altogether, so that the students can start getting in touch with the language and help make any possible shyness disappear. The teacher would have the job to encourage and motivate the children, singing is a fun way of learning. With songs you are able to have a lot of interaction and get much benefit, work on different topics, like colours, animals and numbers. Its one of the more productive ways to work with the youngest pupils. There are many songs and rhymes to teach children, here we could make use of the ICT, as having computers and projectors in class we can listen to songs or videos directly from internet.
Another way of introducing culture contents can be working with the climate. Depending on the age we are going to work with, we would adjust the level. The climate is different in each country, we could compare the weather in Spain with United Kingdom. With the youngest students it would be a great way of introducing colours, for example: yellow-sun, blue-sky and with Primary they could start making sentences, example: today is sunny, in England it rains a lot. With this topic we can expand their vocabulary.
The Royal Family would be another topic to study and get to know a bit about Great Britain, and at the same time they could study all the members of their own family tree. Students from Primary could do projects about the Royal Family, looking for pictures on the net or magazines and create a big family tree mural. Infant education could start learning the main members of their own family: mother, father, sister, brother or make a drawing of all their own family and write underneath who is in the picture: mother, brother,etc.
As they are learning a culture of a different country, its good to know that the United Kingdom is formed by four nations, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. A group project would be to draw and paint in a giant size poster of all the United Kingdom, and each corresponded name and then hang it on the class wall, so that every time the teacher mentions a different place, like London, famous for being the capital and having Big Ben, the students can identify it on the map. All ages could learn the colours of different flags. In little groups they would all make the different flags, Wales with its colours and the dragon, Northern Ireland, Scotland, England and the United Kingdom. It can be a way for introducing other countries in future projects.
When it comes near to holidays, normally its because some kind celebration is coming soon, like Christmas or Easter. Children always enjoy them so working with that topic is a great way of catching their attention. Easter time is popular in the United Kingdom, everybody participates and spends a lot of time preparing it all, especially for the children. So we would use English to do crafts class. We would have to speak slowly and with very short sentences and using vocabulary they already know, but introducing a little bit more, for example: egg, Easter, paint, holiday. Every student would bring their own egg, and paint with different colors and ornaments, spots, stripes, faces.
Introducing cultural contents in an English class you can use many resources, and work with them individually, in pairs or groups, but we always have to have each student in consideration and his o her possibilities, and make sure they understand everything and that at the end of the day the English lesson has been beneficial to each one of the students.
Introducing Cultural Contents in a class of Infant education or Primary can be very beneficial, because at that age the children absorb all the information that we provide them. This subject can come in handy to explain other aspects of different countries, learn about other lifestyles and at the same time increase their vocabulary.
To begin with, the best resource we can have is to sing a song altogether, so that the students can start getting in touch with the language and help make any possible shyness disappear. The teacher would have the job to encourage and motivate the children, singing is a fun way of learning. With songs you are able to have a lot of interaction and get much benefit, work on different topics, like colours, animals and numbers. Its one of the more productive ways to work with the youngest pupils. There are many songs and rhymes to teach children, here we could make use of the ICT, as having computers and projectors in class we can listen to songs or videos directly from internet.
Another way of introducing culture contents can be working with the climate. Depending on the age we are going to work with, we would adjust the level. The climate is different in each country, we could compare the weather in Spain with United Kingdom. With the youngest students it would be a great way of introducing colours, for example: yellow-sun, blue-sky and with Primary they could start making sentences, example: today is sunny, in England it rains a lot. With this topic we can expand their vocabulary.
The Royal Family would be another topic to study and get to know a bit about Great Britain, and at the same time they could study all the members of their own family tree. Students from Primary could do projects about the Royal Family, looking for pictures on the net or magazines and create a big family tree mural. Infant education could start learning the main members of their own family: mother, father, sister, brother or make a drawing of all their own family and write underneath who is in the picture: mother, brother,etc.
As they are learning a culture of a different country, its good to know that the United Kingdom is formed by four nations, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. A group project would be to draw and paint in a giant size poster of all the United Kingdom, and each corresponded name and then hang it on the class wall, so that every time the teacher mentions a different place, like London, famous for being the capital and having Big Ben, the students can identify it on the map. All ages could learn the colours of different flags. In little groups they would all make the different flags, Wales with its colours and the dragon, Northern Ireland, Scotland, England and the United Kingdom. It can be a way for introducing other countries in future projects.
When it comes near to holidays, normally its because some kind celebration is coming soon, like Christmas or Easter. Children always enjoy them so working with that topic is a great way of catching their attention. Easter time is popular in the United Kingdom, everybody participates and spends a lot of time preparing it all, especially for the children. So we would use English to do crafts class. We would have to speak slowly and with very short sentences and using vocabulary they already know, but introducing a little bit more, for example: egg, Easter, paint, holiday. Every student would bring their own egg, and paint with different colors and ornaments, spots, stripes, faces.
Introducing cultural contents in an English class you can use many resources, and work with them individually, in pairs or groups, but we always have to have each student in consideration and his o her possibilities, and make sure they understand everything and that at the end of the day the English lesson has been beneficial to each one of the students.
Saint David's Day
This festival has its origins many years ago and is in honor of a person called Dewi Sant ( in Welsh). He was a church official and a teacher. He became very important at the time because he founded many monastic settlements and churches, very important centres in Wales. Saint David is the smallest city in Wales and that is where his origins are from.
The first of March was chosen to be Saint David's Day because that is when Dewi Sant died. It's been celebrated ever since and he has become the Patron Saint of Wales.
This date is celebrated with many different events around the country, they have parades, concerts with bands playing Welsh music, food festivals and Welsh and Saint David's flags everywhere.
Traditions can still be observed in schools, with singing and poetry. And the girls wear the traditional Welsh costumes. The typical colors in this outfit are black, white and red, sometimes dark blue. And all the costume consists of a skirt, made of wool or flannel with red and black vertical stripes or dark blue and white. Then there's the dress and the cape, normally long with a hood on it. The ladies wear the handkerchief, usually made of cotton, which their wear around their head or neck.
Men's costumes consist of a waistcoat, a jacket, a neckerchief and wollen stockings and a hat.
Another important tradition of wearing the two emblems of Wales: the daffodil and the leek.
To introduce this festival in a lesson, first of all students would have to find Wales on a map, and specially Saint David little city. That would be done at the beginning of the lesson on a big map. After that, between all the girls and boys, could paint big flags. One big flag with the red dragon, the Welsh flag and Saint David's flag too.
Then they would all watch two videos where they could see Saint David's cathedral and learn about its history and one with the parades and they would be able to see what the Welsh costume looks like.
Who was Saint David?
Saint David's parade
This festival has its origins many years ago and is in honor of a person called Dewi Sant ( in Welsh). He was a church official and a teacher. He became very important at the time because he founded many monastic settlements and churches, very important centres in Wales. Saint David is the smallest city in Wales and that is where his origins are from.
The first of March was chosen to be Saint David's Day because that is when Dewi Sant died. It's been celebrated ever since and he has become the Patron Saint of Wales.
This date is celebrated with many different events around the country, they have parades, concerts with bands playing Welsh music, food festivals and Welsh and Saint David's flags everywhere.
Traditions can still be observed in schools, with singing and poetry. And the girls wear the traditional Welsh costumes. The typical colors in this outfit are black, white and red, sometimes dark blue. And all the costume consists of a skirt, made of wool or flannel with red and black vertical stripes or dark blue and white. Then there's the dress and the cape, normally long with a hood on it. The ladies wear the handkerchief, usually made of cotton, which their wear around their head or neck.
Men's costumes consist of a waistcoat, a jacket, a neckerchief and wollen stockings and a hat.
Another important tradition of wearing the two emblems of Wales: the daffodil and the leek.
To introduce this festival in a lesson, first of all students would have to find Wales on a map, and specially Saint David little city. That would be done at the beginning of the lesson on a big map. After that, between all the girls and boys, could paint big flags. One big flag with the red dragon, the Welsh flag and Saint David's flag too.
Then they would all watch two videos where they could see Saint David's cathedral and learn about its history and one with the parades and they would be able to see what the Welsh costume looks like.
Who was Saint David?
Saint David's parade
dilluns, 31 de maig del 2010
Lesson Planning
LESSON PLANNING
THE FAMILY
Aims:
Promote the English language at school.
Motive children to learn a new language
Recognize all the members that form a family.
Understand that each family is different but still is one.
Learn to respect everybody
Place:
In the classroom
Time:
Lesson of 45 minutes
Reinforcement activities:
Another lesson of 45 minutes
Materials:
Family photos
Video youtube
paper
pencils
Resources:
computer
Human resources:
teacher
parents ( at home)
Methodology:
The lesson will start with a little explanation from the teacher about what is a family, which members can we find in a family and that they are all different. The children will be able do make questions. After that they will all watch a video on youtube about all different families.
Activities:
First activity consists in that every student will have bring photos of their family ( the teacher will ask for them a few days before so the parents would have time to look for them).
Each girl and boy will do their own little mural with the members of the family with the pictures and underneath write their names and who are they.
The second activity all the students will explain their mural to the their mates from class one by one ( that is way we would probably need to lessons so that all the students have a chance to expose their mural)
THE FAMILY
Aims:
Promote the English language at school.
Motive children to learn a new language
Recognize all the members that form a family.
Understand that each family is different but still is one.
Learn to respect everybody
Place:
In the classroom
Time:
Lesson of 45 minutes
Reinforcement activities:
Another lesson of 45 minutes
Materials:
Family photos
Video youtube
paper
pencils
Resources:
computer
Human resources:
teacher
parents ( at home)
Methodology:
The lesson will start with a little explanation from the teacher about what is a family, which members can we find in a family and that they are all different. The children will be able do make questions. After that they will all watch a video on youtube about all different families.
Activities:
First activity consists in that every student will have bring photos of their family ( the teacher will ask for them a few days before so the parents would have time to look for them).
Each girl and boy will do their own little mural with the members of the family with the pictures and underneath write their names and who are they.
The second activity all the students will explain their mural to the their mates from class one by one ( that is way we would probably need to lessons so that all the students have a chance to expose their mural)
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