Our ideal boys and girls

Students work in groups to decide how their ideal boys and girls are. They have to talk about:

• physical appearance
• personality
• hobbies
• likes and dislikes
• daily routines
• nationality
• age
• family
• interests

Creating a poster

After reading a text about Notting Hill Carnival, students answer questions and create their own posters for the Carnival.
They are really artists!!

Present Continous Board Game

Students play and talk about present continuous situations. This game gives students the opportunity to be creative in oral situations.

Challenge: messages of love

Children talk about love . It is a great opportunity for them to say : " I love you" to their families and friends.

Instructions:

1. Record a video with your mobile phone sending a message of love
2. Be creative and original
3. Send it to me by whatsapp

Encuentro ETEN

Teacher M. Angeles visits our school to develop a great activity about Carnival. Students enjoy a lot and they are waiting for next ETEN experience.

Saint Valentine´s crafts

To celebrate Saint Valentine´s Day, children create this wonderful craft. We have enjoyed a lot in class today.

CLIL: Learning about heart

Heart is a very important organ in our body, but the heart also represents love and romance. For Valentine´s school week, we are going to study different aspects and ideas about our hearts.

 

Love songs

Today, students listen to these songs and do the activities proposed. Songs and music in English class provide a lot of opportunities not only to learn vocabulary, but also to show sociocultural aspects.

             

The History of Valentine´s day

We learn about the History of Valentine´s day watching this short video. Then, we learn about the vocabulary and expressions related to this beautiful day.

Saint Valentine´s activities

These are some of the activities we do for Valentine´s day

 

Challenge: My best friend

Write a short text about your best friend:

• Click on the Padlet wall
• Write your name 
• Write a short text about your best friend:
• write her/ his name
• write about his /her physical description.
• his/ her daily routines. 
• Upload a photo if you have.

What are you doing?

For this craft , our students create their silhouttes using shadows. It is a collaborative craft task so all the group needs to participate in this project.

Art and crafts for writing

Who would wear these shoes? Students decide how is the person who wears these shoes. They take decisions about:

• her/his  body and head
• her/ his clothes
• Hair style
• likes/ dislikes
• Is he/she happy?

When they finish the drawing, they write a text about the person.  In the text, students have to write about:

1. Personal information: name, age, nationality....
2. Physical Description
3. Daily routines
4. Likes / dislikes

What do you want to be?

Today, we use  the app Touchcast to talk about our future . What do children want to be?

Let´s watch it!!

A new radio podcast

Today, 6A students record a new radio podcast for "English is on the air!!". They talk about weather, festivals, Carnival...

Let´s listen!!

Escucha"new podcast 6ºA" en Spreaker.

Revision activities

Students practice grammar doing these activities. Practicing present  is easier with interactive exercises.

Present simple

Present Simple VS P. continous

Present Simple games

Now, it is the moment to play and revise Present Simple grammar.

Let´s play

Listening test

Students listen to these two listenings and do the activities proposed. Developing listening skill in a foreign language needs lot of practice and real listening situations. For that reason, I  select some from British Council webpage.

Listening 1

Listening 2

Following the sequences

This activity develop creativity and writing skills in our students.

• First, students read the texts and draw the scene.
• Then, they look at the pictures and write a short text for them. 

It´s important students use connectors, description of characters, settings.....

Plickers

We use Plickers to evaluate students knowledge and learning about present Simple. They enjoy a lot using this codes!!

Present simple vs Present continous

Students watch these videos to learn about the differences between present simple and continuous. Finally, they watch a funny video about Mr Bean at an exam and answer the questions. 

Challenge: Voki

This challenge is really interesting. You are going to create an AVATAR using Voki app.

1. First , watch the tutorial video to understand how to use Voki.
2. Second, Go to Voki register yourself.
3. Third, create an avatar that represents some friend or member of your family. Customize it: hair, skin color, eyes color...
4. Then, include a background.
5. Write a short text about this person. You can include personal information, physical description, routines.... ( he/she is ... He /she has got, He / she can....., He/she gets up at...)
6. When you finish, save and share your avatar.

7. Send the link to the teacher by mail. Copy the link and paste in the  email body.

Carlos Pérez
Juan Salvador
Daniel
Alicia
Patricia
Angel
Sergio

Art and crafts about actions

Students practice present progressive using this funny craft activity. They enjoy a lot using different materials and coloring shadows.

     

English is on the air!!!

6B records a new radio podcast. Students talk about their ideal jobs, weather, important people in their city, their favorite things....
Let´s listen!

Escucha"Podcast about jobs" en Spreaker.

Cooperative reading

A studen reads a short text about a job and the rest of the group guesses the name of the proffession or occupation. One member of the group writes down the name .