LESSON 10: 29/09/2015

In this class we have continued with phonetic. The proffesor has taught us how to pronounce all the sounds and how to transcript them. When we finished the explanation we did some words trancriptions. Finally, to end the class, he taught us a very good tool to teach english, which are the limericks, limericks are nonsense rhymes.

I have never studied all the phonetic that we saw in this class, so for me this class was really interesting. Apart from this I liked this lesson because of the limericks, I think that rhymes are a very good way to learn the pronounciation of the words.

LESSON 9: 28/09/2015

In this lesson we have seen in the Royal Decree the Curriculum of Primary Education. The professor has been speaking about the new organization of primary education, the teacher’s role and the teaching-learning competence. Later we have seen the Decree of the Curriculum of Castilla.

The lessons like this one where we only speak about laws are really boring but as I said before is really important for us to know all these laws and rules because are the bases of the education in our country and if we don´t know the laws we won´t be able to do our work properly.

LESSON 8: 24/09/2015

Today, we have finished the explanation of the methodology used to learn a foreign language. In this lesson we have learnt the Task based teaching, the TPR (Total physical response) or Multisensory learning, and the Natural approach. In order to teach us these methods, the professor explained us the characteristics, the objectives, advantages, disadvantages and he finally show us some videos with examples the methods.
When we finished with the methodology we started to learn the phonetics, the english phonetic is the most difficult part of English to me because I have never worked it in class, and I think that that is very important for a teacher to know how to pronounce the words properly because if we pronounce bad a word in front of a children class, all the children will pronounce bad that word.

LESSON 7: 23/09/2015

In this lesson we have done an exercise about the principles of the Organic Law of Education and we have been talking about the spanish law of education which is the LOMCE, we saw the differents characteristics of this law and the differences between this law and the old one.

It is very hard and boring to study the laws but I know that is necessary for us to know all the characteristics and the objectives of the education law. 

LESSON 6: 22/09/2015

In this lesson we carried with the explanation about the methodologies used in education to teach a foreign language. We didn´t have enough time to see all the methodologies properly so the explanation in this class was faster than in the las one. The methods that we learnt were the Oral Approach and Situational Language Teaching, the Audio-lingual Method, the Communicative Language Teaching, the Suggestopedia, the Silent Way and the CLIL. 

The professor explained us the objectives, the characteristics and the advantages and disadvantages of all these methods and we could see some videos where we could see examples of these methods

LESSON 5: 21/09/2015

In this class we have learnt to use the forum and the chat of Moodle. In order to learn how to use it we had to participate in both of them.
These are two very useful tools for us because we can communicate with the teacher and the classmates without the need to be in class, so we can ask some doubts through these tools.

When we finished with these tools we have talked about the idea that every time that we have a change in the gobernment we have a change in the education. To talk about this idea, we have divided in groups and we have told about this.
In our group we have come to the conclusion that education should be apart from politics because is not good for anyone that every four years the education laws change.

LESSON 4: 17/09/2015

In this lesson we have learnt two differents methods to teach a foreign language. The first method is the Grammar Translation Method, and the second one is the Direct Method,

In order to teach this two differents methods, the professor explained the method, then in pairs or in groups or three we had to talk about the advanages and disadvantages of the methodsand when we finish one person of the group has to explain it to the rest of the class; and finally we have seen some videos where we could see examples of both methodologies.

As teachers is very important for us to know all the methodologies in order to use the best one depending on the student´s characteristics or the topic we are teaching. 

LESSON 3: 16/09/2015

In this class we have seen the E-guide, its competences and objectives. Then we have told about the idea that education can change the world, and of course, all the class agreed that yes the world can change with education. Children are the future and they spend a lot of their time in the school so we will be a great influence on them and we can teach them values so that they could be good citizens in the future.

LESSON 2: 15/09/2015

In this second class we have met the teacher of methodology Juan Antonio. As we didn´t know the teacher and he didn´t know us, in this class we did the same than the last class, so we introduce ourselves on front of the class.

In the second part of the class, in pairs or in groups of three we have said the best and the worst things that we could remember about our english classes in primary education, and we have to give some solutions for some problems that the teacher said to us.

Apart from know my classmates in this class I have realized that, in general, we have to practice a lot the english speaking in order to improve our fluency.

LESSON 1: 14/09/2015

This subject is divided into two parts and we have a different teacher for each part, the first one is about laws of education, the teacher is Maribel and we will have these classes on monday and wednesday; the second part is about methodology, the teacher is Juan Antonio and we will have these classes on tuesday and friday.

In this first lesson with Maribel what we have done is to introduce all of us to the rest of the class, we had stand in front of the class and say some important things about our lives like our name, where do we live or if we have been abroad any time.

In my opinion this is an activity that should be done at the beginning of every course, because with this activity we can know all our partners and we can learn how to speak in front of a class in english and start to lose the shame we have because this is something that we will do every day in our work.

INTRODUCTION

Hello everybody!!

Welcome to the portfolio of the Javier Corona Gómez, student of Teaching at the University of Toledo. In this blog I will write the most important things about the subject called "Metodología Práctica de la lengua inglesa".

In this portfolio I will summarize what we do everyday in class and I will write what I have learnt in the class and I will give my personal opinion about the utility of what I  have learnt

I hope you enjoy this portfolio!