Saturday, 25 August 2018

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 Learning Journal

 Skype in the classroom




 This year's main aim is to enhance in the classroom the resources Skype provides for enhancing Oral Competence with speakers from all over the world. We have joined in the Microsoft Educator Community to do so. Let's see what awaits us!!!

A wider and more ambitious goal will be teaching the 17 Global Goals for Sustainable Development. Along with it we'll improve our Oral Communication skills in English.
What is sustainable development?
Which are the 17SDGs?

Three films

Topics for conversation
For 3min they speak spontaneously about the topic given in their card. When the teacher claps, they exchange cards. We'll do this a s a warm-up the first few days.

Home sweet home
You have just moved and have to find who is living at your former home. You are given a card with your new home characteristics and another on your former one.

Pictionary
You have a room picture and have to describe it in detail to a clasmate who will draw it on the blackboard. when finished, in detail, you show it to the artist on the blackboard to see if it is similar to what he imagined while drawing.

Missing kids
Jeremy Vargas and Madeleine McCann disappeared in strange circumstances. Two police inspectors teams are investigating them. On the web you have to find out all the information about the cases to present it to the other team. Make a ppt on it.

Climate action
In order to work on the #SDG13, #SDG14, #SDG15 presented above, we're going to work on Greta Thunberg's speech this week.  You can also watch her on a video to support comprehension and see her attitude in there. We'll stick post-its with quotations from her speech.

Amanda Gorman's Earthrise.

The Great Big Lesson.

Generation Earthshot.

Climate Changemakers. Write your message.

Can you cope?
You are given a role and have to perform it with a partner who has a complementary one. It's fun to find out why he/she behaves that way.

Small conversations
You are given a role-play card, you prepare it with a partner for a few minutes and then perform it before the class.

Presentation on Alicante and Spain
To produce a presentation for our etwinning partners, we will work on several aspects so that they get the whole picture of our country. the result will be seen here and presented orally via a videoconference.

Listen
to Joey's first English lesson here or Why people believe they can't draw.

Short funny sketches

Yellowstone National Park
To work on #SDG13, #SDG14, #SDG15, we wish to be positive and arise admiration to the wilderness. We are going to watch the video Experience Yellowstone and then every student will watch and present one mini-documentary from this section together with a mini comprehension activity for their peers, explaining which section you liked most and why. Pay attention to your MEMORY, PRONUNCIATION AND PERFORMANCE


A project on The Book Thief
We watch the movie. Every students does some research on a character in the story and present it to the class for a minute each. They focus on the context, the character description, physically, personality and their role in the story, with interactions with other characters.

Readers presentations

Famous people
Find out "Who's who" by asking as many questions as possible. A yes/no answer is the only possibility. If your answer is wrong, you are out of the  game, o just give your answer when you are absolutely sure of the answer.

Giving directions to find the best restaurants
We also practice with this BBC listening activity.

British Culture, Customs and Traditions.
Explain about British traditions your own way. Take the information from this link.

We love to eat
Show your cooking abilities to your classmates and share the result with them It's a piece of cake!!
We then write our recipes and pick the most specific and new words to make a poster. This ppt can help you.
We can get inspiration from Jamie Oliver's website, pick up a video, a simple recipe and you'll present it to the class. Pick up 3 new words for these sections: verbs, tools, food/others.
You can also visit Gordon Ramsay's recipes here.

Easter Scavenger Hunt
Easter is round the corner. Follow this link to find the requested information. Divide the class into two teams: History and Traditions. Individually, using your cell phone, try to find all the answer to you section. Once finished, check them with your team. Eventually, both teams present the info to the whole class.
Once done, we go through the "Others" section and work together on the computer and screen to elarn more about it.

Formal EOI Oral tests
We practice this type of tests with its assessment requirements too. 

ESL Conversation Questions

https://www.eslvideo.com/conversation.php

Page 1 and 2.

73 questions with Gal Gadot and Roger Federer.

The language of advertising
Through several activities, we'll go deep into this world. Support video listening: 1  2 
Top 10 Best Super Bowl 53 Commercials
Eventually, you'll make your own add. Watch previous editions here.

Teacher-4-a-day
You have to face a challenge: you'll be your classmates' teacher for 50 min. Prepare a session on an area of your expertise, with theoretical and practical content, a game (kahoots are a great resource, but there're many others...). Watch a previous edition here for ideas.

Mystery Skype
We'll find out where another school is via Skype. You'll have to prepare your questions, work with maps, team-work and develope your critical thinking skills. Be ready for great fun!!
Watch this video to get an idea of what we'll do.



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