International Project in Our School

 Our pupils had the opportunity to share letters with  different schools from other countries with an international project.

USING PADLET...

https://padlet.com/nrodjim/rxf00tskvbbph7yj

RIDDLES FOR KIDS

                              HAVE A GOOD TIME GUESSING RIDDLES!!!

https://youtu.be/Wr7FdxPU8V8

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xZ9-wfNw6to&feature=share

3 D CARDS...

This activity was really interesting.We join Arts with Literacy and we wrote  cards from different ancient places at the front page in 3 D and back page with an ancient place  writing

                                                    ...and this was the result!!

CHRISTMAS ONCE AGAIN...

 Last Christmas we were learning about Thanksgiving Day and we made  nice crafts.

                                             Have a look!!

GRAMMAR WITH GAMES MUCH BETTER

                                          THE PIZZA GAME!!!

In Primary (2nd interlevel )we review Grammar in a fun way. We ussually use "The pizza game"to reinforce what our pupils have learnt about grammatical structures during the school year.This game allows us working with cooperative groups eight different tenses ( Present , past,future...)

Pupils interact with each other speaking English,improving their communicative skills and their creativity;because they make their own boardgames.

I think that using games to teach a second language, it is good for creating a motivating atmosphere in our classes.

TIPS WHEN YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE AN ENGLISH TEST

WHAT CAN WE DO WHEN WE TAKE AN ENGLISH TEST??

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZDiDl-F7cM

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgkRoYPLhts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OualsHB1FqE

HOW TO USE GAMES TO TEACH ENGLISH

  PLAY ACTIVITIES WITH CLASSMATES

You can see some examples  ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs4aLvZv488

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpjspLKO_zA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O0o4DFxt2Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaRQgHPAZRo

12 Fun Speaking Games for Language Learners

Have you ever asked a question to your English language class, only to be answered with complete silence and blank stares? At one point every English teacher has had the struggle of encouraging students to speak. Perhaps the student has a deep fear of making a mistake, or maybe the student is just plain shy, even in their native language. Whatever the reason, here is a list of a few fun activities to get your students to speak English!
his list is for more advanced (B2+) students.

1. Who's Telling the Truth? 
Have each student write three facts about themselves that nobody in the class knows on a piece of paper. Make sure each student includes his/her name on the top of the paper.  Collect the sheets of paper and bring three students to the front of the room. Read aloud one of the facts that is true for one of the students in the front of the room. The class then proceeds to question the students in an attempt to determine who is telling the truth, and who is lying. Each student is allowed to ask one question to one of the three students. After a round of questioning, the students predict who is telling the truth.

2. Taboo Variations
Variation #1: Create a PowerPoint presentation with each slide containing a noun. Have one student come to the front of the room and sit with his/her back to the PowerPoint. The students in the class should take turns describing the words for the student in the front of the room to guess.
Variation #2: Separate the students into groups of 4/5. Place a pile of cards with random nouns in the center of the group. Have students take turns describing the nouns for their group members to guess. The group member who guesses correctly keeps the card in an attempt to have the most cards at the end of the game.
Variation #3 (Advanced speakers): Separate the class into two teams. Students are given a word to describe to their teammates, in addition to a list of words that they cannot use in their description. Each student should have 2-3 minutes to see how many words his/her teammates can guess.

3. Descriptive Drawing Activity
Pair up the students and give them each a picture face down. They must describe the picture for their partner to draw.

4. Comic Strip Descriptions
Give each student a portion of a comic strip. Without showing their pictures to one another, the students should attempt to describe their image, and put the comic strip into the correct order. After about ten minutes, the students can predict the order, show one another their portion, and see if they were correct!

5. "Secret" Word
Students are given a random topic, and a random word completely unrelated to the topic. The student must hide the word in their speech, without the other students in the class guessing their "secret" word. The other students in the class must listen carefully to the speech, in an attempt to discover the secret word.

6. Debates
Give each student a piece of paper with “agree” written on one side, and “disagree” on the other side. Read aloud a controversial statement, and have each students hold up his/her paper stating whether they agree or disagree. Choose one student from each side to explain his/her position and participate in a short debate.

7. Impromptu Speaking
Split the class into two teams, and use a list of impromptu speaking topics. Have each student choose a number, and respond to the statement without preparation. The student must continue speaking for 45 seconds when the teacher calls out "stop." As the student is speaking, the other team listens for any hesitation, grammatical mistakes or vocabulary mistakes. If the other team can correctly identify an error, they get a point.

8. Desert Island Activity
Give each student a piece of paper and tell him or her to draw an item. Any item. Tell the students that they have been stranded on a desert island, and only half of the class can survive and continue to inhabit the desert island. The student's goal is to convince the class that they should survive. The hard part is that the only thing they have is an item that was drawn a few minutes earlier by a classmate on the piece of paper.

9. Storytelling Activity

Bring four students to the front of the classroom. Three students should sit down in a row, and one of the students should stand behind them acting as a controller. The controller should have a stack of cards in his hand containing nouns. The controller will hand a noun to one of the three students who will start to tell a story. The student will continue telling the story until the controller decides to hand another noun to another student who will then take over the story.

10. Two Truths, One Lie
Each student should write three facts about themselves on a piece of paper. Two of the facts should be the truth, and one should be a lie. Students read aloud the facts, and give the other students a chance to question them and decide which statement is a lie.

11. True/False Storytelling
Give each student a piece of paper with either the word “true” or “false.” Each student should tell the class a story, and the class must guess whether the story is the truth, or a lie. To add to the activity, you can allow the other students to question the student telling the story.

12. I Have Never…
All students in the class should start holding five fingers in the air (this number can be adjusted depending on how many students are in the class). The student who begins the activity will tell the class one thing that he/she has NEVER done. The students who have done that activity should put a finger down, and tell the class a story about this activity.

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SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTHDAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHAKESPEARE!!!

🎭Yesterday was Shakespeare's birthday! Celebrate it with your children and watch and learn all about William Shakespeare and some of his most famous plays.
Check them out here: http://bit.ly/LEKShakespeare
- there are downloadable worksheets and transcripts too!
Join our fabulous ExploringEnglish:http://bit.ly/Shakespeare5Shakespeare to learn more for yourself!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlGRwUuD7Gw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJiPrScqWGA

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw-J7GbwNV4

WORLD BOOK DAY

WHY SHOULD WE READ?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2W0iJ4rVy4

MAGIC EVENING OF TALES !!

ONCE AGAIN OUR TRADITIONAL MAGIC EVENING  OF TALES,

CELEBRATING WORLD BOOK DAY IN THE SCHOOL

 

Reading is really important in our school  to focus on it.

We have a primary goal with our pupils in this point.Developing imagination,creativity is the way to change our world.

This year we are going to work about an important author "Jules Verne" ,and about all  with one of his famous book called" Around the world in 80 days"

Lot of mysteries and surprises are going to happen for children this year on 13th April ...Come and see!!

 

JULES VERNE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DJ8KpIKMqY

https://www.google.es/search?biw=1354&bih=624&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=W

CREATING STORIES ...WITH TOONTASTIC

 TOONTASTIC, A GREAT APP FOR CREATING STORIES

 At Second Interlevel in Primary, we are using an interesting App called "Toontastic" to create stories in English .

Through several settings and characters in 3D ,children can improve their imagination and scaffolding their ideas .These stories became interactive, since they can record their voices,add music and  even moving the characters through different places.

An App with many possibilities that only is overcome by  our pupils' creativity.

 

AULA INNOVA -THINKING ROUTINES

                                                          THINKING  ROUTINES

                                                     LOOK,THINK AND WONDER

Today ,I have started a new project  about"Saint Andrew´s  day"- using a new resource of learning  with Multiple Smarts.

I´ve used a thinking routine "Look,think and wonder" to motivate my pupils  in the begining of this activity.

This has been really  useful and I´ve been able to know in which themes they are interested  and whatever they expected.

Working in The school with thinking routines is amazing!!!

                                                  Thinking routines-look,think and wonder

 

 

AULA INNOVA-CONCEPT MAPS

                                                  CONCEPT    MAPS  

                                          Another way to learn English

Using concept maps with our classmates is a good  learning resource, because children can improve their English skills ,such as :  speaking,writing,organizing their ideas...

 Concept maps are completely useful , for the reason that you can assess reading,speaking ,writing and their creativity too.

Look at this project with sixth grade pupils. about the themes : Jobs-" I Want to be"  and Collections-  "I collect"

WRITING STORIES: SOUP OF TALES ,ROLL THE DICES...

 

SOUP OF TALES !!!

This activity from  Macmillan book titled  +100 ideas for children is a good way to start writing stories with children from Primary.

 

We are going to work in cooperative groups of three using one set of cubes .Each child has to colour only one cube and to make it.Then each pupil has to throw the cube and the soup of tales will be ready!!

A cube with letter B-will be the beginning,the cube with M -will be the middle and the cube with E will be the ending.They have got in each cube six different pictures with classic tales(Cinderella,Goldilocks,Hansel and Gretel,The Ugly Duckling,Sleeping Beauty and Three Goats Gruff) .

Now,they will have to create the new original story.We need to provide them useful expressions like Once upon a time,Long time ago...or They lived happily ever after... Each group will write a new tale with the parts that they have in their dices and they will try to fit them .Their stories will be funny and original!!!

Have a look ...my pupils doing this activity!!

Set of cubes with tales

 

My pupils are writing their soup of tales...

 

 

Be patient in a few days you will be able to read their tales!!

Here they are...

 

 

ROLL  &  WRITE A STORY

With only a dice,a paper and a pen you are going to create stories.

Roll the dice three times ,the first one for the setting,the second one for the character and the third one for the plot...

Come on, try it with your pupils!!!!!

 

 

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  THE STORY MACHINE

 

Good ideas for  writing...

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_QOcIODPnQ