TASK 6.5. INTERACTION

Good afternoon,

I have chosen the activity that our classmate Rocío created and published in her blog: https://rocioteacherblog.blogspot.com/2020/03/storyjumper.html

Her students made a fable (The ant and the grasshopper) with Storyjumper.

I have selected this activity because I think it's a good opportunity to create a role-play as a final task. 

First of all, students will work in groups of three people (narrator, the ant and the grasshopper). Then, they will read the story and finally they must create the adapted dialogues to be represented to the rest of the class.

The role-plays can be recorded in order to use them as a self-evaluation.

TASK 5.3. MINI-PROJECT WITH GENIALLY

TASK 5.3.

MINI-PROJECT WITH GENIALLY

• Present a plan which shows clearly the staging of the activities that the students used to prepare the project (e.g. Stage 1. Choose topic and establish groups; 2) choose modality of Genially…)

We have been working with the verb have got in affirmative, negative and interrogative form with my 5^th Primary Students. In order to work with this verb students created a monster and described it to the rest of the class.

Students worked in pairs. They created a presentation in Genially to support their oral work.

• Comment on how decisions were taken as to the grouping of students and timings of the project.

First of all, students decided what type of monster they wanted to do. They used all the materials they want (plastic, paper, sticks…). Then, they prepared the presentation with Genially and finally they organized the oral presentation. They had 3-5 minutes to do it.

• A sample of any additional materials you used (handouts, project planners etc.)

They used the monster to show to the rest of the students and to support their oral presentation.

• Links to the projects realised by your students (you can choose the best ones to upload)

·         https://view.genial.ly/5e668f2a1121c30fcdf910f3/presentation-genially-sin-titulo

• Video, Audio and/or photos of the presentations.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1yQuyQcU4Dkmb6v35bqVTIVIBOv6fSkmr

• Lastly, do not forget to reflect on how the use of the tool has optimised your students’ learning experience and has helped you achieve the objectives. Would you change anything?

Genially is a tool that allows you to work easily and intuitively. It is very easy to use because it helps students focus their attention on the most important parts of their presentation.

It helped me achieve the objectives I proposed because I could evaluate the presentation in Genially and the oral one.

Moreover, students felt motivated and comfortable doing an oral presentation with the use of this tool.

TASK 3.4. EDPUZZLE

https://edpuzzle.com/assignments/5e5117fbb94b8a40c99d5a68/watch

I chose this video because a few months ago we were working with Christmas recipes and I couldn't find a video that fits with my aim objective. Now, I can adapt the video to the activity I want to show to my students just cutting him.

The objectives I want to achieve with this video are:

- Learn vocabulary related to a Christmas recipe.

- Learn verbs in order to do a recipe.

- Make a Christmas recipe.

-Know the festival of Christmas as a socio-cultural aspect of English countries.

First of all, we will watch the video and finally we will do an activity. We will find the correct order in order to do Mince Pies. Students can watch the video at home in order to familiarize with the vocabulary.

I think it is a fantastic activity in order to learn the socio-cultural aspect of English countries. My students really enjoy not just watching the video but also participating in the creation of a English Christmas recipe. On the other hand, I can see a disadvantage: Internet connection sometimes doesn’t work very well in school so it can be a time wasting.

Task 2.4. A Time Line with TimeToast

The main aim of this activity is to learn about the four Bourbon kings ruled Spain (6^th Primary) First of all, the steps we followed to achieve this objective were the following ones:

- Get into groups of five.

- Each group chose one important king.

- They looked for information and wrote a small biography on him.

-  They completed the timeline with the most important facts.

-  Joined them all together to do a timeline.

I think TimeToast has a lot of advantages. It is a great tool for students to organize events during a period of time. After finding important dates and information relating to Bourbon Kings, they created a timeline. This timeline could be used as an assessment of what they learned. Moreover, this tool helped students to summarize the main ideas in a text and it encouraged active learning because they were working in group. 

On the other hand, the main disadvantage includes requiring an email. This could be an issue for the parents of younger students. In my case, students worked in the same account (I made for them) in order to introduce information. Also, pictures must be ready to upload and this hindered some students who are unfamiliar with uploading images.

My students really enjoyed with this interactive activity when clicking though the events of this timeline so I think it’s a good tool to make lessons memorable and fun.

https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/2189368

Task 2.2. "Reflect of reading habits"

Reflect of Reading habits

- Picture 1. They are in a library in a relaxed environment so I think they are reading for pleasure.

- Picture 2. I think a mum is reading a book to her daughter. Maybe, she is explaining her a science lesson because she is going to have an exam. They are creating ties of union because mum is helping her daughter to study.

- Picture 3. A man is using his ebook in order to read a book for pleasure. I think he is using this personal device because he can carry a whole library of hundreds of books with him without worrying about their weight.

- Picture 4. Children are in a school reading a collection of books of their classroom library. I think their teacher chose the book for them, so they are not reading for pleasure.

- Picture 5. A man is reading a newspaper in order to know the last current news. He is reading for pleasure.

My reading experience came when I was a child when my parents read me a lot of books in order to go to sleep. Nowadays, I read a lot of books in my ebook. I think is a very good device because you can carry a library of various book genres for every mood. I enjoy reading a wide range of texts but I prefer crime novel because I really enjoy discovering who is the murdered of the story. 
I try to read all these novels in L2 in order to improve my English but I also like reading in Spanish. 

Christmas around the World

Do you want to know how Christmas is celebrated in other countries? 

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     ● VIDEO

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSbN2W04sxU

     ● ONLINE ACTIVITIES

- https://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/es/your-turn/christmas

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Esther

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