quarta-feira, 16 de março de 2011

Teaching "What's this/that?" in a very different way!


These days I found a great idea in one of the books I use for teaching kids at my mini school. I'd never thought of that before but I got to the conclusion it could be a wonderful way to get my students involved with the content I had to teach. The subject was "What's this/that?" and its corresponding questions and answers such as "Is it a book?", "Yes, it is" or "No, it isn't". Guess what! All we need to use is play dough! Yes! Play dough in the classroom! So I bought it and this afternoon I had the chance to try the activity shown by the book. It was great! Kids love playing with different kinds of material in class so I asked them to create something using play dough about the vocabulary we've just learned. For example: school material, just like: pen, pencil, pencil case, etc. So students had to keep asking each other in order to guess what they were creating. Student A asked Student B: "Is it a crayon?" and the other one would say: "Yes, it is" or "No, it isn't" and so on. Notice that we can work on not only on the structure of questions and answers but also vocabulary. Reeeeally nice! See you, colleague!

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  2. Very good idea!! I'm gonna try it with my students!!

    I have to say that they are all adults, but I'm sure they will love it!

    Thanks for sharing!
    Take care!

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  3. Hi, Angela! Yes! We can also work with our adult students, why not? Thanks for passing by, dear.
    Kisses!

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  4. Thanks for sharing! Bianca, do you have interesting texts for teenagers? Something like Seventeen magazine. I'm trying to take informations that they might like. Because if I only give "boring" informations they won't have fun with it. Thanks and take care!

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  5. Hi, Vivi!! I bought a "People" magazine some time ago and I remember there was something interesting for teens there. Seventeen magazine is great, but I haven't seen it for a while..at least here. Have you tried to check up on the Net? Maybe a Seventeen magazine site or something. I'm curious now! I'm gonna check up on it my self and then I let you know, ok? kisses!!

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  6. WOW, I love your blog! It's full of great ideas!!!
    I teach English and I've got a blog too.
    If you like, you are welcome to have a look:
    http://englishforitaliankids.blogspot.com/
    ciao,
    Silvia

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  7. Thanks, Silvia! I'm gonna take a look at your blog for sure!
    kisses

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