Jingle Bells

Here you'll find a very well known song for Christmas. I use this karaoke version for the students to learn the lyrics easily.

Enjoy it!

FRIDAY, I'M IN LOVE

As promised, here I present some tips to work a song like "Friday, I'm in Love", by The Cure. Apparently, this is not an easy song to work with 2nd level of Primary, but even the difficult authentic material could be worked easily with a little preparation.

* Pre-teach some language: Here, for example, students already know the days of the week.
* Pre-listening tasks: Ask the students what's their favorite day of the week. Before listening to the song for the first time, ask them a simple question to find out. For example: What's the singer favorite day of the week?"
Sometimes you'll find amazing answers. For example, recently a student not only told me that the singes favourite day was "Friday", but he also told me that the song "Said all the days of the week".

* I give them some cards with different colours, one for each day of the week. Then we listen to the song again and ask them to raise their card when they listen the day of the week they're holding.

This way, you could easily see how many of them are listening and understanding the days of the week in the song.

* Ask them to learn a part of the song, use gestures to elicit the meaning, etc…

These are only some tips. Try to find out new ways of working authentic material. It's English for the real world!

DAYS OF THE WEEK

Hi again!

Find here two musical videos to work DAYS OF THE WEEK in the class.

One of them it's very simple and quite "sticky" to use with first graders:

The other it is very fun and I used it with second and third level. There are many ways to work an apparently "difficult" authentic English material like this one with beginners. I'll tell you more about in in my next post...

MORE ON HALLOWEEN

Try your knowledge on Halloween with this amazing book:

HALLOWEEN SONGS

Hi again!

After a year I'm back! Halloween time seems a good moment to start again...

Here you'll find the songs I'm currently doing with my pupils this school year for Halloween.

1st GRADE STUDENTS: MY FAVOURITE PUMPKIN

2nd GRADE STUDENTS: WHAT ARE YOU FOR HALLOWEEN?

3rd GRADE STUDENTS: THE SKELETON DANCE

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Hi again!
This year I'm not English teacher, but tutor of second level of Primary. However, I'll be dropping here from time to time to suggest some activities you could use in your own classes (Or maybe I use in the future).
I've found a couple of videos you'll enjoy and maybe addapt to your classes. Have a look:

Keep in touch!

HOLIDAYS

I wish all my pupils have nice holidays! I'm recharching batteries to set off new proposals next year.

If you want to practise English during the summer, here you have some tips:

- Take advantage of your english or foreign friends: use THE ENGLISH YOU KNOW, don't be shy!

- Have a look to some of the wonderful recommended LINKS in this blog.

- Try to remember songs, stories you have learnt this year and teach them to your friends, parents, cousins... Invent similar songs or stories, or even play them out!

- Try to read a story in English. You can visit the book shop or sail on the web. Read stories you LIKE (Stilton, comics, Batpat, Greg's Diaries...)

- Watch TV or films in V.O. (cartoons are easy to follow). Watch the subtitled in English.

ENJOY YOUR HOLIDAYS...
SEE YOU IN SEPTEMBER! :)