Pronuntiation

Let's compare British pronunciation with American pronuntiation.

CELEBRATING 1000 POSTS

A week ago I was working on doing one of my daily posts when I noticed in my blog dashboard that the total number of posts I have done since I started this blog was actually getting very close to 1,000!

I never would have imagined back in 2010 the journey that this web would be taking me. 

This little blog has chronicled the experience in its own special way. I used to be a bit embarrassed by the older posts on the blog, but I now embrace them as my own learnings.

Thank you to everyone who has followed and supported me from post 1 up until today. 

Places around town

Hi there,
if you visit this page,
why do not follow it?
You will make me very happy!!
Look at the right and click on the "follow this blog" botton.
By the way,if you are interested in places aroun the town,
Click on the image below and reinforce prepositions and places with this activity.
Enjoy and have fun using activities in "English for You and Me"

Prepositions of place

Now, if you want to check them and to have fun, click on the picture below and listen to the dog's position. 

Prepositions of time

A sweet research

Chocolate

Teaching with songs

Songs are excellent as a starting point if you want to engage your students in English. Before listening to them you can introduce some questions for introducing children into the song. At the same time but after being all ears, you can come up with a list of questions to start the conversation. Here you have some examples:

What is the song about?

What do you think about the song?

Does the singer speak about personal experience?

Do you know the singer?

Do you have any special information about him or her? 

Is he/she young/old?

The song I want to share with you TODAY is "I was here" by Beyoncé. It allows to work past simple and future. Furthermore, it can inspire to do something good for someone. Fascinating message, "what will you do?" That is its last message.
Besides that, you can add a few more exercises in order to work on vocabulary or grammar. Here you have the one I used to work after reading lyrics and watching the video.

After those exercises, you can suggest students to work the song at home 

          through lyrics training page.

Always trying my best!

Have you ever met somebody who was perfect? This is NOT me! ;D Absolutely true but what I can say is that I learn from my own mistakes.

I have many days each school year where I have failed to engage my students in my lessons. I have days where I am unable to have the patience and understanding to work with children who are difficult or challenging but personally I think that a positive attitude helps me many times.

Your positive attitude and your energy teaching and working with children is relevant but also the support that you, as a teacher, have from your colleagues and families.

Thank you very much!

The roulette

The roulette is a warm up activity. Here you have some ideas for introducing it:
Form two circles, one inside and the other outside. They move in two different ways (one facing inwards and one facing outwards) when you say "stop" they have to say the person's name.

Variation:

• Students describe the person opposite them.
• Students describe what they are wearing.
• Very young children just say "I'm happy"/ "I'm sad"/ "I'm angry"/ I'm hungry"
• Also, they can say "She is a girl, her name is..."/ "He is a boy. His name is...."

Recommended show

La Sala team will present  in few days (April 16th and 17th) The Velveteen Rabbit, a highly recommended show with the label of the Unicorn Theatre at the Principal's Theatre.  Don't lose the play. It's lovely, magical and gorgeous! A perfect show for any time.

Plot: one day, a child receives a gift, a velveteen rabbit, very soft and floppy, and he immediately falls in love with it. However, shortly after, the child is captivated by other more dazzling toys: electric trains, dolls that speak, videogames... The rabbit has kept, deep inside, the child's love, and, thanks to it, it will overcome a long period of indifference. It will be the only toy that would like to go beyond, leave the shelf and become a loving and playful rabbit that hides among the shrubs. One day, the parents will have to burn all the objects and toys of the room to avoid a dangerous contagion. Only ashes will remain...how does it finish? You will have to go to Principal's Theatre and find out by yourself. You have some sketches in the video below.

Toys vocabulary

Hi you all!

Although I used to work this vocabulary at Christmas time, I want to share this power point with all of you because it can be useful to review the use of a/an in front of the nouns.

Here you have some examples:

April 1st

Today is April 1st, the day most commonly called "April Fool's Day" and it's celebrated in many countries by people in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Russia, Australia, South Africa, The Netherlands and other countries around the world. 

 It's a day

to practice jokes,  get creative and play fun pranks on people around you. 
Nobody is exactly sure where the tradition started but nowadays it's an excuse to play silly jokes on friends, as the example below at my kitchen.

Many newspaper, radio personalities, television shows, and internet web sites participate in the celebration.