Ilazki Zabaleta, Terese Larrañaga, Nerea Zubia and Aitziber Rodriguez Project THE CONTEXT: Our project will take place in Luzaro, a school which situated in Deba (Gipuzkoa). Deba is a small town which has a public school and the Basque is the principle language. In this school are children from 3 to 12 years old. The family for our school has a medium socioeconomic status. We decided that the children of our project will be 5 years old. But they are going to begin learning English or do the first approximation with English with 2 years. We think that this age is appropriate because, is better to start early as they have some skills that they haven’t when they are older. Also, with 2 years it could be recommendable that they heart English and be exposure with this language. In our class, we will work with 15 pupils who have 5 years old, but one child is from Sahara since one year. He is Rashid, Rashid is 5 years old and he is adopted. Is black and he has got black eyes, and he has a very expressive face. He is shy and he doesn’t understand very much in English. He speaks Basque with his adoptive parents and in Spanish with his friends. During English classes, he doesn’t understand anything, but when he understands something he ignores everything that English teacher say. The English teacher is not the tutor. We are going to do 3 classes for week of thirty minutes each class. METHODOLOGY: Our main objective is that children could express their self, so that we are going to work with basic words and ideas about their routines. Our project has got 4 weeks. We will learn one topic each week, but when we learn a new topic we are going to review the things that we had seen last week. With this methodology we can remember all the topics. PRINCIPLES:
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Ilazki Zabaleta, Terese Larrañaga, Nerea Zubia and Aitziber Rodriguez
Project
THE CONTEXT:
Our project will take place in Luzaro, a school which situated in Deba
(Gipuzkoa). Deba is a small town which has a public school and the Basque is the
principle language. In this school are children from 3 to 12 years old. The family for our
school has a medium socioeconomic status.
We decided that the children of our project will be 5 years old. But they are
going to begin learning English or do the first approximation with English with 2 years.
We think that this age is appropriate because, is better to start early as they have
some skills that they haven’t when they are older. Also, with 2 years it could be
recommendable that they heart English and be exposure with this language.
In our class, we will work with 15 pupils who have 5 years old, but one child is
from Sahara since one year. He is Rashid, Rashid is 5 years old and he is adopted. Is
black and he has got black eyes, and he has a very expressive face. He is shy and he
doesn’t understand very much in English. He speaks Basque with his adoptive parents
and in Spanish with his friends. During English classes, he doesn’t understand anything,
but when he understands something he ignores everything that English teacher say.
The English teacher is not the tutor. We are going to do 3 classes for week of
thirty minutes each class.
METHODOLOGY:
Our main objective is that children could express their self, so that we are going
to work with basic words and ideas about their routines.
Our project has got 4 weeks. We will learn one topic each week, but when we
learn a new topic we are going to review the things that we had seen last week. With
this methodology we can remember all the topics.
PRINCIPLES:
- Cooperation methodology.
- Children must participate.
- Listen to the ideas for the children.
- Use lessons to have a good time.
- We use real context.
- Don´t use books and don´t teach with grammar.
- Speaking practice and use body language.
ACTIVITIES PRINCIPLES:
- Change activity every 5-10 minutes not to get bored.
- Mixing excitable games with quiet ones.
- Make lessons playful and full of physical movement.
- Avoid competition.
- Encourage and support young learns.
- Use song and puppets to motivate and learn vocabulary.
- Concentrate also on speaking practice with a single words and short phrases.
- Teacher could be repeated in English all that children said in Basque.
- Speak slowly and clearly so that children can understand well.
TOPICS:
First, we are going to practice places they usually go (pool, school,
supermarket, doctor, playground…). Secondly, we are going to teach family (parents,
grandparents, sisters, brothers). Thirstily, we are going to teach how they can express
their feelings (boring, happy, sad, scared). At this way the children will be motivated to
speak about their routines.
1 WEEK
In the first week, we are going to start learning the names of the places like park, pool,
library, supermarket, doctor…
At the beginning of English classes, we are going to sing a Hello song. It is going to be a
routing because all the days we are going to start the lesson with it.
1. class
To teach Hello song, first we are going to put the song and children have to listen it,
then we are going to put the song one more time and children have to repeat it.
Hello song
Hello, hello, hello
Hello, hello, hello,
Hello, hello, hello
Hello, how are you?
Hello, hello, hello
Hello, hello, hello,
Hello, hello, hello
Hello, I´m fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdukBVPk8Jw
Video about the places
Then, we are going to see a video about town vocabulary. In the video we will see one
by one the places of the town and we are going to say the name and children have to
repeat. Here is the video that we are going to use to this activity.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LULzOE1IVYk
Painting
Children should paint the different sites of their town, and they must draw below the
name of the place. The example will be on the board to children copy.
To start the class, we are going to sing the Hello song.
Short story
Then, we are going to tell a story about the family, using the vocabulary that we learn
the last day.
Nazam is reading a book in his bed. He can´t read because he doesn´t know.
So he calls his mother.
-Mom! Mom! Come here please. - And Nazam´s mother goes. Then Nazam said:
- Can you read me a book please?- And Nathams mother reads a book for Nazam.
But, Nazam can´t heard anything because his sister is playing the piano.
Also, his grandmother can´t sleep because of the music.
So, Nazam’s parents buy him a beautiful book that has only images.
And because of that, Nazam is very happy!
Finding couple
The next activity is going to be finding the couple. To do the activity we would divide
the class in two groups. One group is going to draw pictures for our game and the
other group is going to start playing with pictures that have already done. In soil of the
classroom there are going to be same pictures prone and children have to find the
couple for each picture. To do this children have to get up one by one to see what it is
behind the picture and then try to find its partner. If he or she doesn´t find the couple,
have to sit in her or his site and pass the turn for the other partner.
“Simon says…”
The last game is going to be Simon says. Teacher is going to say: “Simon says…” and
then she/he is going to say the word she/he want to children learn. For example:
“Simon says point the finger to the mother” and children have to put the finger in the
picture of mother. To do this game, we are going to do 3 groups, and every group is
going to have one picture.
Sing a song
After that, we are going to sing the topic song “ family fingers”.
The picture of our family (we take this from children education blog)
Teacher will show children a picture of her family and she is going to explain this picture: “she is my mom, he is my dad…” pointing her mom and her dad; then, each child is going to take her or his family picture and then she or he is going to explain the picture to the other classmates. Children are going to use the same structure as teacher used before “she is…, he is…”, and children are going to point the picture while they are explaining it.
Good-bye song
And too finally, we are going to sing good bye song.
3.class:
Hello song
To start the class, we are going to sing the Hello song.
Where is Poppy and with whom?
We want to children would be able to answer next questions: Where did you go in
weekend? With whom? And how did you feel?
So that, we are going to teach the structures to them in order that they can answer to
the questions.
To review the places that we learned last week, we are going to show the pictures for
different places and ask to the children: where is Poppy?
And then, we are going to do the same, but in this case we are going to show them the
pictures of the Poppy’s family.
Poppy mother and father
Grandmother, sister and brother Grandparents
“Simon says…”
The last game is going to be Simon says. Teacher is going to say: “Simon says…” and
then she/he is going to say the word she/he want to children learn. For example:
“Simon says point the finger to the mother” and children have to put the finger in the
picture of mother. To do this game, we are going to do 3 groups, and every group is
going to have one picture.
Drawing our family (we take this from children education blog)
Each student is going to draw a picture of his/her family. When they finish their
picture, they have to write belong to each person who is he or she (mommy, daddy,
sister...). Then, they have to show to their classmates their family and explain who
those that appear there are.
Good bye song
And too finally, we are going to sing goodbye song.
3. WEEK
In the third week, we are going to learn names of feelings like happy, sad, bored and
scared.
1. class:
To start the class like other weeks, we are going to sing a Hello song.
Hello song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdukBVPk8Jw
Video
Then we are going to see a video to learn different feelings. In this video, they can see
and relate faces with feelings. Next, we repeat all feelings with children. Here is the
video that we are going to use to this activity.
In the video we can see a lot of emotions, but we are going to select some emotions to
learn in class.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEk48QQSPo4
Learn word (feelings)
After that, we will do learn words activity. With this activity we want to children can
learn the names that are appear in the video. To do that we will have different pictures
where there appear the different faces with different emotions. The teacher is going to