EATING HEALTHY TUTORIAL

This tutorial was designed to ESL students in order to guide them in accomplishing a project applying TIC's. I created it using the Camtasia Studio Software and it was a great experience. You can apply it when you are going to be absent from your classes but you want your students to be working on an assignment.

DESIGNING POSTERS

Designing posters is an educational activity that looks for motivating students to be creative, at the same time it helps them to illustrate their oral presentations in classes. To develop this activity, students were asked to cut and paste five pictures from magazines related to celebrities or famous people in order they can describe each of them talking about their physical appearance and personality. After they finished their posters they put them on the wall as a gallery of celebrities and they were asked to describe them.

            

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.