Video from Mineduc seen in class

First of all, is imprtant to say that it was really interesting to see this video about a typical Spanish class, where the teacher introduced a new topic in her class. Where She introduced "illnesses", but here we were just watching the video, we were not listening. it was without the audio but situation was simple to understand.

I realized that the use of th body language is essential and the teacher in the video
used body language to give examples of different aches. For example She pointed teeth meaning a toothache, she showed a stomachache making some movement of pain with her hand in the stomage and etc.

Also she used extra material such as pictures to make more interesting the explanation, as well as the black board where she wrote every new word. The students sat in orderly rows in front of the teacher, this was good considering the task was to introduce new vocabulary, this way everybody would listen what the teacher had to say.

One Hundred Years from now

One Hundred Years from now It will not matter what kind of car I drove, What kind of house I lived in, how much money was in my bank account nor what my clothes looked like. But the world may be a better place because I was important in the life of a child.

Listening Microteaching

Teacher: Sindy Herrera Lavin
Date: 21 June , 2007
Time: 20minutes


Lesson plan

The aim
Children learn the numbers and how to use "this, that " . using the skill "Listening"

Grade
This group is from 5th year

Description of the class
The class is composed by beginner students. There are 15 students. They are 12 years old approximately. These kids are not enthusiastic that all but they like to know new things so working with them should not be difficult.

Overview
Learn how to distinguish between this and that and numbers is something basic for children. I am sure they already know how to do it in Spanish. It is taught by parents when children have not entered to the school yet. Kids enjoy learning new things, especially if they are in English. They feel they have another status and this is good because they realize they can learn more and more.

Teaching aids
To reach the purpose of this class I will use some sheets of paper with number where I will do a game .....

Objectives

Students will be able to:
i. Listening and understand numbers.

ii. Listening and understand when use " this " and " that".

Procedure

Engagement
I will arrive in the class and I am going to explain the different activities of listening that we are going to do with the text and a game with numbers 1 to 20. I will ask them if they know numbers 1 to 20. If they do, I will start with the game ask them to tell me the numbers when I ask for the number one by one; if they don’t, I will give them some clues with some movement of my mouse. Also in this part I am going to teach how to use "this" and "that" in the same game.

Study
Here I will introduce them the activity from the text (page 18 and 19) and they will listening the story ( related with numbers names, this- that) and they have to order the scenes about "sword". They will listening several time that they need to understand. In this part we can check some vocabulary and numbers etc.

Activate
In this final part, the activity will be divide in three group. all the group are going to listen the tape twice with a rap song (from the book page 20). One group of students will have to repit and sing the song by theyself. then the next group and so on. So from this way I will be sure that all understand and learn numers

The activities are going to be mixing the four skills. There are going to be writing, listening, speaking and reading exercises, in order to follow the communicative approach.