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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