LISTEN AND MAKE
In
this lesson we have learnt different kind of activities which we can
use with students and where they have to listen the instructions or
explanations and, later in groups or individually, they must reflect
on those things and make them.
We
must explain the instructions as much as necessary, with the
objective everyone understands what and how he/she has to do it, and
when they are doing the exercises teachers must check if they are
doing it right.
For
example Listen
and colour activities, it
is a easy sort of exercise in which it is necessary that the learners
know well the vocabulary. In addition when they finish, we can put
the drawings up on the wall.
Also
we can choose one topic and describe pictures about it to children
colour them.
Furthermore,
you can do the same, but in this time they must draw what you are
saying, for example one tree, a house, ... These kinds of works are
known as Listen
and draw activities,
and in them we work phrases about the positions too. After that you
can pick up some of the children´s pictures and showing to the rest
in order to talk about the differences between these and the
original. Also it is possible using the drawing games to promote the
cooperative work and to revise and practise vocabulary in English.
There
are Listen and make activities and we can use the
festivals to put in practice this, because pupils love touching
different materials and making handicrafts. So we can take
advantage of these celebrations to decorate the classroom, to make
cards and of course to teach and play with the colours; sizes:
vocabulary about the festivals and the materials; the date in which
they are celebrated; to improve the oral skills (listening and
speaking); some verbs for example glue, fold, cut, draw; to know
other cultures,...
To
end, it is really important speaking them slowly and repeating many
times in order to learn and to assimilate in the right way the
vocabulary and the verbs and to be understood by them.
Moreover,
i want to show the routines i will use to begin my English class to
you.
I
think they are very useful in nursery and primary education because
you can work a lot of thing. In nursery education, for example, at
first i will work the weather and the seasons. Little by little i
will explain and add the days of the week and the date, for instance
telling young learners "if yesterday was Tuesday, today
is...Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Okay,
perfect! Today is Wednesday, repeat with me: Today is Wednesday.
Okay." And we can do the same with the date. I think is necessary and
perfectly suitable working these concepts in nursery education but
you must help them.
So
these are my routines, I have laminated them because in another way
with the daily use they can be damaged.
M.R.M.
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