BUILDING VOCABULARY USING SONGS

Songs, Games and Rounds Course is a kind of workshop students from UDELAS take in order to develop teaching skills singing songs, playing games and rounds during the English language classes. During the first class, students listened to a song; then, they had to sing the song applying a karaoke program. After that, I gave them a word in a piece of paper and I asked them to stand up when the word was said during the song. Finally, they shared their words with their classmates and they built a list of twenty five words.

TALENT SHOW AT UDELAS

On November 15, my students from Universidad Especializada de Las Américas were asked to organize a Talent Show as a clousure activity for the Songs, Games and Rounds Course. They designed everything and I invited my third graders from Las Barreras Elementary School, who sang and dramatized The Farmer in the Dell...

APPLYING JCLIC TO MY ENGLISH CLASSES

JCLIC is an educational program designed to develop different learning skills through activities such as wordsearches, puzzles, putting words in order, matching words and sounds, etc; related to a specific topic.

Students enjoyed a lot working those didactic activities during their lab classes. 

I only had to facilitate their learning telling them how to complete the asssignment.

PLAYING CARDS

This activity was based on playing cards for getting students involved into the target language. They were asked to form groups of three students. Then, they chose cards, and read and aswered them presenting their opinions in front of the class. This activity is wonderful for developing the speaking skill. 

PLAYING INTERACTIVE GAMES AT THE LAB

Students applied wild animals playing interactive games surfing websites. They could play memory games, matching pictures and words, painting pictures about wild animals, wordsearches, etc. I only had to supervise them and help them if they faced some problems. Most of them used computers successfully.

WORD WALL STRATEGY FOR TEACHING VOCABULARY

Didactic material for teaching different topics to my students.

This material was created by myself using pictures and I applied the Word Wall Strategy in order to increase my students' vocabulary. Those posters helped my students to remember words from given topics at English classes. 

TEACHING PETS AND FARM ANIMALS THROUGH SONGS

Teaching English Language through songs is a wondergul resource for increasing students' performance in the target language. They can improve vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar and they develop fluency by singing songs. But the most important aspect is that they enjoy a lot. You can observe this video and you will realize it. Besides, you can notice that I changed the letter of the song in order to adapt my class concerning to farm animals.

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ASKING PERSONAL INFORMATION QUESTIONS

According to Wikipedia, Physiotherapy is a health care profession primarily concerned with the remediation of impairments and disabilities and the promotion of mobility, functional ability, quality of life and movement potential through examination, evaluation, diagnosis and physical intervention carried out by Physical Therapists.

 

Those are my students from Physiotheraphy during the first English class. I asked them to interview their classmates in order to ask them personal information questions. Then, they had to talk about their partners in front of the class.

 

For instance: She is Diana. Diana is 19 years old and she lives in Santiago. Her phone number is 999-9999. She is single and she does not have children.

TEACHING ACADEMIC WRITING AT UDELAS THROUGH THE CAROUSEL STRATEGY

The Carousel Strategy is a helpful way to teach a topic. First of all, you need to provide students with cardboard and markets. You fix the cardboard on the wall with the titles that you want they complete with information about the theme.

Ask them to form groups of three or four students. After that, they have to read the material provided by the teacher concerned with The Writing Process.Then, they are located in front of each cardboard as you can see on the pictures and they have to write a sentence related to the asked data. After one minute, they have to move to the another cardboard and they write something about the title. At the end, they have to write on each cardboard without repeating the data.

Finally, the teacher reads the sentences correcting spelling and grammar mistakes with students.