Reading Activities

This is my work about reading activities for 1° Medio. The second link is where are the text scrip for activities two and three

http://www.mediafire.com/?lwaqi6803rzq4ow

http://http//www.mediafire.com/?ws1hs6b7e8869bo

My own WebQuest

In the following link you will be able to check a Web Quest which I created. I hope you can have a better idea about Web Quests with this one.


http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=99251

What is a Webquest?

A stereotypical "WebQuest" sees a team of students accessing Web sites in order to produce a technology-enhanced group product.
A Web-Quest also follows a structure

The Introduction stage is normally used to introduce the overall theme of the webquest. It involves giving background information on the topic and, in the language learning context, often introduces key vocabulary and concepts which learners will need to understand in order to complete the tasks involved.

The Task section of the webquest explains clearly and precisely what the learners will have to do as they work their way through the webquest. The task should obviously be highly motivating and intrinsically interesting for the learners, and should be firmly anchored in a real-life situation. This often involves the learners in a certain amount of role-play within a given scenario (e.g. you are the school social organizer and have to organize a trip for your class to an English-speaking country...)

The Process stage of a webquest guides the learners through a set of activities and research tasks, using a set of predefined resources. These resources - in the case of a webquest - are predominately web-based, and are usually presented in clickable form within the task document (it's important to bear in mind that it's much easier to click on a link than to type it in with any degree of accuracy). In the case of a language-based webquest, the Process stage of the webquest may introduce (or recycle) lexical areas or grammatical points which are essential to the Task. The Process stage of the webquest will usually have one (or sometimes several) 'products' which the learners are expected to present at the end. These 'products' will often form the basis of the Evaluation stage.

The Evaluation stage can involve learners in self-evaluation, comparing and contrasting what they have produced with other learners and giving feedback on what they feel they have learned, achieved, etc. It will also involve teacher evaluation of the same, and good webquests will give guidance to the teacher for this particular part of the process.

If there are some extra questions about what a webquest is all about, maybe this video can answer you those questions

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7UynehA_l0

A Primary class

With some classmate we had to perform a class for primary school students. So here we have the Lesson Plan we fallowed to do it.

We also recorded a video as extra material, to do the learning process meaningful.

Module 1 : Learning and Teaching Styles for Primary Students

Basically this document especially in this Module focus on the characteristics of young learners and their learning styles that affect the second language acquisition.

What we should consider as a teachers is the characteristics of young learners such as:

• They are learning to read and write in L1
• They are developing as thinkers
• They understand the differences between the real and the imaginary.
• They can plan and organize how best to carry out an activity
• They can work with others and learn from others
• They can be reliable and take responsibility for class activities and routines.

The Module also provide us to 10 helpful ideas for teaching English to young learners :

1. -Supplement activities with visuals, realia, and movements
2. -Involve students in making visual and realia
3. -Move from activity to activity
4. -Teach in Themes
5. -Use stories and context familiar to students
6. -Establish classroom routines in English
7. -Use L1 as a resource when necessary
8. -Bring in helpers from the community
9. - Collaborate with other teachers in your school
10. -Communicate with other T.E.Y.L. professionals.

A nice activity to a nursery class

Easy Ball Toss Game with Flashcards

"Ask the students to sit down and put the basket a few feet in front of them. You can adjust the distance depending on their age. Simply show the flashcard to the students, and ask them to repeat after you. Once they say the word correctly, they win the opportunity to try and get a point by tossing the ball in the basket".

This kind of activity is what kids more like, because involves sort of a competition and also you as a teacher can help them to improve their pronunciation, and the vocabulary too.

When you are working with children sometimes it is hard to keep them concentrated the whole time, so this kind of games help them to relax and then continuous with the normal class

http://www.dreamenglish.com/Dream%20English%20Book.pdf

Nursery School

One of the most useful tool to teach English to little kids is the story telling, because :

1. The story is engaging

2. The story teller is engaging

3. The listener can participate in it.

Now the story teller has to choose a correct story according of course to the level of English that his/her class has. Also the story teller must make the story interesting and fun so children won't be bored.

Usually young learners are:

-Impulsive

-Entertained

-Energetic

-Social

-Spontaneous

-Inquisitive.

So the best technique we can use is T.P.R to keep them interested in the class. Also we have to consider that our class with children must be full of practices, enjoyable, supported, purposeful and social. So in this way the learning process will be meaningful to the students, even though they are young learners.