Didactics 2017

And so we finished the English course! This was surely a learning journey for both students and teachers. For that reason, all the teachers team organized a short but meaningful ceremony to thank and congratulate students for their perseverance and effort throughout the course. Students and teachers had a blast between games, live music, words of encouragement and food, of course. Here are some picture on how it was: Welcome words by teacher Jackie and Ricardo. Teacher Ligia giving some words to students.                                                                                                                                 ...

LISTENING LESSON Topic: Hopes and Dreams Teachers :   Tirsa, Abigail, Sara, Irene, Jose, Carolina On this lesson teachers had the objective to stimulated students listening using a story related to hard work and love. At first, teachers decided to start the class with a warm up were students were separated in two groups while a track was playing the students had to place in order certain parts according to they listened. Then, they start explaining difficult vocabulary from the audio, and after everything is clear they had another activity were students received a bunch of pictures and they must put it in order, using just their logic. When they finished teachers played the audio with the story so students can be able to check and verify that they got the correct order. After all that the students will receive a handout with a story written on it but with some missing words, that students must complete while they listen to an audio with the story and must identi...

Vobulary lesson Topic: Bad and good experiences Teachers:  Dennisse Carranza, Nathalia Castillo, Gema Rivera, Kathia Hernández, Maria Nochez Teachers divided the class in two groups and students played a game called, twister. Teachers splitted the roulette and students needed to follow directions. After that teachers asked students if they have had a good experience or a bad experiences and they had to mention in the class. Later students repeated some phrases 2 times. Then teachers gave some second to see some questions and images that were on the board then they had to link the questions with the corresponding images. In the practice students had to read some questions on a piece of paper and they had to stand up and asked those question to the other teachers then, they shared them. For the production teachers asked to make groups of three, students had 3 objects and they used to create a dialogue.  Teacher ended the class by asking quest...

Listening Lesson Topic: “The way we are || Habits”   Teachers: Ligia Ester Hernández / Dania Lissette Crespín/ Karen Vanessa Gómez / José Luis Bonifacio / Sara Elizabeth Chévez In this lesson, teachers decided to start with a kinesthetic way by using some music and a basket. Students made two groups, after that they tossed a ball into a basket whenever a ball got into the basket SS took a paper with a habit in it, after that, they had to put the habit next to the corresponding image. As a pre-listening activity Ts gave SS images and as T was reading SS had to identify if the image given corresponded to the description of the teacher. It was a really good way to activate students previous knowledge. To continue with the listening activity, Ts played audio and SS had to prove their comprehension by  putting a conversation in order. To wrap up the class, t asked the students to stand up and passing a series of balloons with music in the background, when music stopped S...

Grammar lesson Topic: TOPIC: MANNER ADVERBS VS ADJECTIVES Teachers: Gema Rivera / Nathy Castillo / María Noches / Katia Hernández / Denisse Carranza  This class started by an activity that consisted that Ts show 10 objects and then SS had to write down the ones the remembered. Then, Ts started with the grammar explanation. The topic was: Manner adverbs and adjectives. They gave the explanation and examples.  In the practice stage, Ts did an exercise about fill in the blanks, SS had to put the correct adjective ad adverb. As a second exercise for this stage, SS had to explote a ballon and it contained an adjective or adverb, the SS had to make a sentence with that word. After that, SS had to make the last exercise in a piece of paper. Finally, SS had to mention at least 2 adjectives or adverbs they remembered.