FINAL PRESENTATIONS

In the last six lessons we, the group of primary education, and the group of pre-primary education met in the same class to do our final presentations. Our professors had this great idea and I agree with this idea bacause both groups can learn from each other. All these lessons last one hour, in the first half an hour a group of primary education develop their presentation and in the second half the group of pre-primary make their.

I enjoy a lot all the presentations, in general I think that everyone has done a great job, the theorical parts were very well presented and expresed; and the exercises were very practical and original.

It has to be emphasized that pre-primary education groups used more resources and their activities were more like games than the primary ones; and I think that this is quite normal.

In conclusion I have to say that this presentations have been very useful to know more about how we can work in class and we could see very original and amusement activities

LESSON 19: 19/10/2015

At the beginning of the class the professor gave us a shit of paper where was a list of things that a teacher must be able to do, and we saw that we are able to do all those things.
Then the teacher showed us some web sites where we can create forms, presentations or storytellings. To finish the class she showed us some examples of all of these tools.

Is very important for us to can use the internet properly because there are a lot of different web sites where we can create very good activities which can be useful in our classes.

LESSON 18: 15/10/2015

Today we continued with the songs, the professor taught us songs which can be used in pre-primary education or in the first years of primary. Later he showed us a web page where we can listen to songs and make exercises like fill in the gaps at the same time. When we finished we have seen the chants, which are like little songs which have always the same structure and they are very repetitive, after the explanation in groups of three we had to create a chant and said it in front of the class.
A the end of the class we saw a video about digital competences and subcompetences.

LESSON 17: 14/10/2015

In this class, we have seen the portfolio which is a very interesting tool to teach a foreign launguage to our children. The portfolio has three different parts: Dossier, passport and biography. When the professor finished her explanation she showed us differents cains of portfolios that we can use with our children.

At the end of the class she taught us a children´s song, to teach a song to our children in very important the repetition, the entonation and make gestures to remember the lyrics of the song

I really liked the idea of using the portfolio to teach foreigns languages. I have never heard any activity similar to this one and I think that it can be very useful.

LESSON 16: 13/10/2015

We started this class with a review of phonetic, and we did phonetic transcriptions. Later, the professor taught some useful tools which are tongue twisters and rhymes. We saw some examples of tongue twisters and rhymes and we saw how can we use these tools in class in order to teach english to our children.

As I said before doing exercises with songs or rhymes are very useful to teach english because children can learn and have time at the same time.

LESSON 15: 8/10/2015

The class was divided in groups of 5 or 6 people and today all the groups have made a presentation about foreign language teaching. One by one each group developed a method that the had chosen, in these presentations the groups had to explain the characteristics of the method, the advantages and disadvantages and present one or two activities which developes the method they are talking about.

We made the presentation about the communicative language teaching.

This was a very interesting class where we could learn more about the foreign language teaching and we could see some very interesting activities that our classmates did.

LESSON 14: 6/10/2015

In this class, most of the people in class were attending a CLIL course so we didn´t see anything new.

First we have seen some storytellings and then, in groups, we had to made characters in a paper and create a storytelling aboud Little Red Riding Hood. When we created the storytelling we had to represent our new storytelling in front of the class.

At the end of the class we did some exercises with a song called Another day in paradise by Phil Collins. The professor gave us a shit of paper with the lyrics of the song but with missing words, so we had to fill the gaps.

In my opinion songs are perfect to learn a foreign language and apart from learn children can have fun.