Wednesday 26 November 2014

Christmas is coming! Din din din!

Summary

 Age
7-10 years old
 Level
3rd or 4th grade of primary school
 Number of students
24 pupils
 Nationality
All
 Skills
Listening, reading and speaking.
Steps
1. Listen and sing a Christmas song.
2. Play bingo and make a Christmas card.
3. Online game 'Jokes to tell at Christmas time'
  • Teacher’s guide
1Sing this song: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town


2.  Play a bingo (student’s worksheet). Then, make a Christmas card for a friend by sticking photos on it. Decorate it and make it colourful!

3.  Do this online activity about jokes to tell at Christmas time
  • Learn more about English traditions!
I hope you like it guys!
See you soon!

Weather and Seasons

Hi there! What's the weather like?
Summary

Age
6-8 years old
Level
2nd and 3rd grade of primary school
Number of students
25 pupils
Nationality
All
Skills
Listening, reading, speaking and writing.
Steps
1. Listen and read the vocabulary about the weather and seasons from the presentation.
2. Listen to the funny video about the weather from Sesame Street.
3. Online exercises about weather.
4. Make a craft calendar, draw every season of the year and include important events.
  • Guide:

1. Read out loud the presentation about different  vocabularyseasons,weather and clothes. 


  • Then, play charades: mime and guess the word.

2. Listen to this Video: Sesame Street-Grover weather monster.




3. Practise and learn more. Do these Online activities: The weather.











4. Craft calendar. Follow the instructions. Be creative and original. 
  • Materials: paper, cardboard, tape, crayons, markers, glitter....
  • You can create your own calendar for a month or year. 
  • You can draw and decorate it with the seasons and mark important events.
  • Also, I leave you here a printable colouring calendar.



See you in the next lesson!
Have fun! 

Tuesday 25 November 2014

Food groups and healthy tips

Summary

Age
11-14 years old
Level
6th grade of primary school and above
Nationality
All
Skills
Speaking, reading and writing.
Steps
 1. Read a text about healthy food tips and food groups. Answer to the questions and classify food.
2. Read the information included in the food groups chart. Make today’s menu by taking into account the servings and amounts.
3. Play online games about healthy food and habits.


  • Teacher's guide:

1.  The first activity is a reading comprehension. I have created a text specially for this activity. The following questions allow students to think of their daily routines and habits as well as learn new vocabulary about food.

2.  In the second activity, they will be able to make their own menu. They should bear in mind the servings and amounts. Students will complete the following chart:


Today’s menu

Meals:






Drawings:
Breakfast 8 am:

-A cup of milk
-A slice of bread with olive oil
- A banana


Mid-morning snack 10:30 am



Lunch 2 pm



Teatime 5 pm



Dinner 9 pm




3.  To conclude, pupils will play and explore different online activities related to the topic:

  • Talking Food Pyramid 
  • Description--> Chef Solus shares some important information about each of the food groups of the food pyramid.

  • Pyramid Panic Arcade Game  
  • Description-->Chef Solus is trying to make his way home from the pyramid in the jungle. He is hungry and needs to make some meals. Help Chef Solus find foods to make a healthy balanced meal. Careful, there are fatty or sugary foods trying to stop him.

  • Kevin's Build a Meal Game  
  • Description--> Travel with Kevin from the kitchen, school cafeteria and grocery store as he races the clock to build the perfect meal. 
Finally, I would like to share a free website called Nourish, in which you can find a variety of interactive tools to assist in teaching the key elements of nutrition. 
Enjoy your meal!

Monday 24 November 2014

Let's go Camping

Summary

Age
7-10 years old
Level
2nd, 3rd and 4th grade of primary school
Nationality
All
Skills
Reading, listening, speaking and listening.
Steps
1. Listen and repeat the camping words, Then, watch the video about 'Mia's first camping trip'. 

2. Speaking game. In pairs, look at the vocabulary. Then, choose one object and play describe and guess.

3. Find the camping words in the alphabet soup puzzle.


1. Listen and repeat. Use the online dictionary WordReference to listen to the words. Then, listen and repeat. 

1.1 Now watch the video about 'Mia's first camping trip'. What camping objects can you see?

2. Play a guessing game: describe and guess. The vocabulary above can help you in this speaking activity.
                                                    
 Example
   Points
Student 1                                
It's blue. You can cook food on it
______________
Student 2
It's a burner
1
Student 2
It's big. You can sleep inside of it
_______________

Student 1
It's a tent
0
   No, it’s a sleeping bag


You can adapt the description depending on the level. You can say:
- The colour: it's green, blue, red...
- Size: it's small, big, huge, tiny.
- Shape: it's like a circle, square, rectangle...
- Uses: you can use it to sleep, to cook, to see...

3. Learn more about camping words by finding them in an alphabet soup puzzle (you have it in the student's worksheet).

Teachers/parents can print more activities on this website and look for more games about this topic
See you soon !

Sunday 23 November 2014

Shrek's Song


                                                                  Hello! Are you a believer?

Summary

Age
8-12 years old
Level
from 3rd to 6th grade of primary school.
Nationality
All
Skills
Listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Steps 
1. Listen to the song.
2. Read the lyrics. Look up for unknown words in the dictionary. Then, fill in the gaps. 
3. Sing the song while watching the video again. Record yourself singing and dancing a choreography.

           

 1. Listen to the song:

 

2. Read, listen and fill in the gaps with these words.

mind       believer       face      dreams      love      pain       

                                            I'm a believer








I thought love was only true in fairytales
Meant for someone else but not for me 

_ _ _ _ was out to get me,that's the way it seemed
Dissappointment haunted all my _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Then I saw her _ _ _ _
Now I'm a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
Not a trace
Of doubt in my  _ _ _ _.
I'm in love
(ooooooaaaahhh)
I'm a believer, I couldn't leave her 
if I tried 

I thought _ _ _ _ was more or less a given thing
The more I gave the less I got, Oh Yeah
What's the use of trying
All you get is _ _ _ _
When I wanted sunshine I got _ _ _  _ 

3.   Sing the song while watching the video again. Then, record yourself singing and dancing a choreography. 

3.1 Watch your video and reflect on your performance
 (pronunciation, fluency, gestures and originality).
Resultado de imagen de good excellent scale
*Answers song --> love, dreams, face, believer, mind and pain.

            The End!