POWER POINT PRESENTATIONS:
- TODAY IS MONDAY
Our pupils had a lot of fun with both the story and the song. We have followed the same pattern as for unit 1, and it worked great.
They would have liked to work with it more times. It’s been their favourite story.
- WHAT’S THE TIME MR WOLF?
They enjoyed the story song but not so much as the previous ones. We followed the same pattern as before and it worked just ok for some of us.
For others, it has worked brilliantly, the kids liked the story and the post reading activities a lot. We have read it more than once and shared our routines habits with the rest of the class.
The song was a great success too, all the kids were willing to participate, so thanks to repetition, in a fun way, the structured was fixed in their heads easily.
LIM ACTIVITY: ( the same for both topics 2 and 3)
We put this activity into practice with half groups of children (12-13 pupils) and the results were good, as usually. The strong points of this type of tasks are:
- Motivation: they are highly motivating for them since they are made by us for them.
- Beyond school: as this is an online task, they can play at home and they do.
GAMES
- FOOD GAME:
The children enjoyed playing it. They loved playing a role play pretending to be someone who invites a friend for breakfast, lunch or dinner in their house.
The children enjoyed playing it. They loved playing a role play pretending to be someone who invites a friend for breakfast, lunch or dinner in their house.
Advantages: the game gives us the opportunity to deal with many diffrent structures. Role play activities are very motivating.
Drawbacks: it is too long to build up the dice. This type of exercises take a lot of time, specially in large groups. Of course, if pupils are unorganized, they tend to lose their copies and can't finish their work.
- ROUTINE CARDS
Playing suggestions:
- Big group: bingo game. Each pupil chooses 5 cards. The teacher begins reading the cards aloud and when they listen to a routine that they’ve got they turn it over. The winner is the first one to turn over all the cards. And now the winner is the reader for the next game.
If we have more that 2 winners, all can read.
- Pair group: they play a memory game.
Advantages: dealing with reading comprehension, speaking and listening skills. Peer and self correction by speaking English. practicing game structures such as "My turn", "You're cheating", "I win", "I lost", "It's right/wrong". They can reinforce the routine structures and the time.
The routine cards are always with them in the classroom and they play as soon as they finish their classroom tasks.
Speaking in fornt of the class is also a very nice activity t do with this toy.
Drawbacks: Classroom behaviour control. Language control. Lack of material (they don't bring it or they loose it) and, of course, children learning difficulties and rhythms.
- ROUTINE CARDS
Playing suggestions:
- Big group: bingo game. Each pupil chooses 5 cards. The teacher begins reading the cards aloud and when they listen to a routine that they’ve got they turn it over. The winner is the first one to turn over all the cards. And now the winner is the reader for the next game.
We used the cut out as an excuse to speak in front of the class, too,Each kid coloured and cut the pictures and draw a clock behind them, taking their own routines into account. Afterwords, they pasted the edge of the cards on a cardboard and wrote sentences just above the pictures. Whenever they were ready, they showed their results to the rest of their classmates and talked about their daily activities.
This activity can be used in year 4 as well, provided we increase the difficulty a little bit more. We can elicit whatever we want as regards time, and add extra vocabulary.
If we have more that 2 winners, all can read.
- Pair group: they play a memory game.
Advantages: dealing with reading comprehension, speaking and listening skills. Peer and self correction by speaking English. practicing game structures such as "My turn", "You're cheating", "I win", "I lost", "It's right/wrong". They can reinforce the routine structures and the time.
The routine cards are always with them in the classroom and they play as soon as they finish their classroom tasks.
Speaking in fornt of the class is also a very nice activity t do with this toy.
Drawbacks: Classroom behaviour control. Language control. Lack of material (they don't bring it or they loose it) and, of course, children learning difficulties and rhythms.
