This blog was created not only to improve students skills and reinforce all topics worked in class, but also as a resource that parents should guide in order to consolidate the relationship between parents and children
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SELF ASSESMENT MY ENVIRONMENT (THIRD GRADE)
To identify different places around my city
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To develop this funny activity, you will check this websibe: http://www.elllo.org/english/Games/G022-Places.html. You are going to listen some places and match each number to the corresponding place. ¡try to do your best!
To recognize the different animals.
In order to recognize animals, you will play a game called "Animal Safari", this means that you are in the jungle and you are seeing many animals but you don't know their names so, in this game you have to match the name of the animal with the correct picture, it is too easy and fun. Enjoy it!
http://funschool.kaboose.com/formula-fusion/games/game_animal_safari.html?g=dk2_ds2
SELF ASSESMENT MY BEHAVIOUR (THIRD GRADE)
To be respectful with other through greetings.
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You have to develop any of the following 6 answer sheets, you can find them on: http://www.eslkidslab.com/worksheets/greetings/index.html in order to know when do you have to greet or say goodbye to somebody. Good Luck!
To use common expressions when using language
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Students are going to watch a video about common expressions. The video is attached in the following page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pf6XjM_pEo&feature=related. Listen at least three times and record a similar video of 30 seconds using common expressions. do your best
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You have to develop any of the following 6 answer sheets, you can find them on: http://www.eslkidslab.com/worksheets/greetings/index.html in order to know when do you have to greet or say goodbye to somebody. Good Luck!
To use common expressions when using language
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Students are going to watch a video about common expressions. The video is attached in the following page: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pf6XjM_pEo&feature=related. Listen at least three times and record a similar video of 30 seconds using common expressions. do your best
SELF ASSESMENT MY BODY (THIRD GRADE)
To use common expressions to tell what they do daily
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To develop this interesting activity go to the following website: http://www.esl-lab.com/schedule/schedrd1.htm . Listen to the conversation by pressing the "Play Audio" button and answer the questions. Press the "Final Score" button to check your quiz. good luck
To differ the healthy food from the unhealthy food.
Picture taken from: http://eatwellhealthy.blogspot.com/2010/12/una-cena-rica-y-simple.html
With your parents help, you will play a matching game at: http://www.1-language.com/memorymatchelem/food/memori1.swf in this game you have to match the different healthy food in there, in this way you will be able to recognize the healthy food and you will also know what is good for your health.
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To develop this interesting activity go to the following website: http://www.esl-lab.com/schedule/schedrd1.htm . Listen to the conversation by pressing the "Play Audio" button and answer the questions. Press the "Final Score" button to check your quiz. good luck
To differ the healthy food from the unhealthy food.
Picture taken from: http://eatwellhealthy.blogspot.com/2010/12/una-cena-rica-y-simple.html
With your parents help, you will play a matching game at: http://www.1-language.com/memorymatchelem/food/memori1.swf in this game you have to match the different healthy food in there, in this way you will be able to recognize the healthy food and you will also know what is good for your health.
SELF ASSESMENT MY COMMUNITY (THIRD GRADE)
To identify the different professions and its functions.
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Students will work in the activity about jobs and professions found in the following webpage: http://www.clafoti.com/imagenes9/exe_24_jobs.htm
Here you have to complete the sentences with the correct profession, but based on the picture next to the blank, be careful and good luck!.
To recognize some classroom objects
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Students will work in the activity about jobs and professions found in the following webpage: http://www.clafoti.com/imagenes9/exe_24_jobs.htm
Here you have to complete the sentences with the correct profession, but based on the picture next to the blank, be careful and good luck!.
To recognize some classroom objects
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Parents will work with children in this activity. They must download a crossword from this website: http://iteslj.org/cw/2/mg-classroom.html. Solve it and draw each classroom object. At once write 10 sentences.
SELF ASSESMENT TALKING ABOUT MYSELF
Introducing myself and knowing information about other people
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http://www.educ.ar/educar/site/educar/estrategias-para-ejercitar-la-lengua-oral-en-nivel-inicial.html
http://www.educ.ar/educar/site/educar/estrategias-para-ejercitar-la-lengua-oral-en-nivel-inicial.html
On the next webpage you are going to practice the main vocabulary about how to introduce myself and others. In this page you can find some phrases and vocabulary about this topic in order to reinforce your class learning. Then, you are going to develop some exercises that you will find in the right part of the page to improve your weaknesses in the subject.
Asking and answering questions about what people can and can’t do
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On the next page, you will hear the song about the things that you can and can not do and with the help of your parents you are going to practice the vocabulary and how to use the verb can.
After practicing with the song, you must write a few sentences about the things you can and can not do.
Expressing preferences and likes
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On the next page, you will find an explanation about the verb "like". You must read the information and develop some exercises using this verb and your hobbies and preferences.
http://sites.google.com/site/jpalaciosingles/likesanddislikes
On the next page, you are going to find some pictures about hobbies in order to remember vocabulary. You must develop the exercises writing the correct word in each one of the pictures.
SELF ASSESMENT PEOPLE AROUND ME
I can talk about nationalities and customs of different countries
In this webpage students will develop 3 exercises in order to improve this descriptor.
- The first exercise consists on choose the capital city of different countries. For example:
1. Spain 2. Italy
- In the second activity students have to choose were the people are form according to the images of famous people. For example:
- 2.
Cameron Diaz is from
- 3.
- In the last activity, students should find 15 nationalities in a word search.
I can describe people around me and the universe
In this page students can play a game called Can you find the right face?. It consists on listen and read the face descriptions of a person and according to characteristics (hair, eyes, skin, mouth, and nose) the student has to choose among six different people who the correct person is.
This webpage will let students to improve this descriptor. The objective of this page is to describe a little girl called Mary. The idea is to describe her physical appearance and then answer five questions about her.
I can talk about the main jobs around the world
In this page students will find a video with a song about different jobs around the world, students have to watch it twice or the times needed in order to develop 4 exercises below the video.
- The first activity consists on find 17 jobs in a word search and write them under each picture next to the word search. For example:
- In the second activity students have to choose the correct option according to the description of each job. For example: Doctors/Teachers work in a hospital helping to improve people’s health.
- In the third activity students should thick the correct option depending on the description of each job. For example: They protect people from criminals ------ Police Officer __X__ Actors____
- The last activity consists on write the correct job and choose the correct option according to the place people develop this job.
SELF ASSESMENT THE WEATHER AND I
THE WEATHER AND I (fourth grade)
I can talk about clothes
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In the follow web page students will develop four activities in order to practice what they learnt during the classes. In the first exercise students have to write a correct word according to the image.In the second activity students have to write what boy and girls dress. In the third activity they have to listen and watch a video and answer some question related to the different clothes’ color. Finally,they have to complete a crossword with clothes such as: shoes, gloves and socks.
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1685
In the follow web page students will develop four activities in order to practice what they learnt during the classes. In the first exercise students have to write a correct word according to the image.In the second activity students have to write what boy and girls dress. In the third activity they have to listen and watch a video and answer some question related to the different clothes’ color. Finally,they have to complete a crossword with clothes such as: shoes, gloves and socks.
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1685
I can describe the different seasons around the world
In this web page students could practice the main vocabulary about seasons.In the first activity they have to order the words according to the images, in the second activity students have to complete some sentences according to the images, in the last activity students have to develop a crossword with the main seasons around the world and different places.
In the following web page students could related what people play in each of the seasons. In the first activity they have to listen and choose the correct word according what they listen. In the second activity they have to filling the gaps, and in the last activity they have to listen and write vocabulary related to the sports.
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2044
In the follow web page students can practice the principal vocabulary of clothes and seasons and they can related this to according what people dress in each of the seasons. They will have to choose what they wear in each of the seasons and they have to complete some sentences with the vocabulary learnt during the classes .
I can describe what people play in each of the seasons
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SELF ASSESMENT MY SPECIAL CELEBRATIONS
Talking about people feelings and emotions
You have to enter to the page below, after that you have to start to do the activity, the idea is you choose one face and after that you will be able to continue with the others, depending on feeling or emotion that you choose, it will say if it is correct or not.
Describing holidays around the world and talking about how they celebrate it.
on the page below you will find different holidays and celebrations around the world, with help of your parents you will have to choose four of them and design a card when you will write the main aspects of each celebration and similarities that you find in your country and others. ( you will be able to do the card here in the blog) .
Talking about people carnivals and find the principal characteristics of it
You will find two videos of festivals in Colombia and some information in the pages below, with help of your parents you have to watch the videos and after that, answer the two questions, then you will design an invitation a friend; you will imagine you have a friend of another country, so you will design a card inviting him / her to Colombia telling him / her the things they can do in those days.
1.) What can people do in those celebrations?
2.) Why is it celebrated?
SELF ASSESMENT MASS MEDIA
ACTIVITY NEWS PAPER
search on internet pieces of news where you can find the following information, then write the page and the information that you found there.
Find these things as fast as you can!
- the score from a sporting event
page: __________
- a comic strip with an animal
page: __________
- the time a movie is showing at a local theater
page: __________
- today’s weather
page: __________
- a column that gives advice
page: __________
- information about a cultural event
page: __________
ACTIVITY RADIO PROGRAM
Go to the following link: http://radio.about.com/od/createyourownradioshow/a/blyourshowhub.htmhttp://radio.about.com/od/createyourownradioshow/a/blyourshowhub.htm , read the text about How to Create Your Own Radio Program in 6 Easy Steps and based on it, create your own radio program
Go to the following link http://iteslj.org/v/s/se-tv.html, here you can find an interesting exercise about Television world, you have to choose the translation of the word that appear.
SELF ASSESMENT MY OWN COMPOSITION
MY OWN COMPOSITION
ü Choose a character of one cartoon who you know or remember something about
ü Choose one of the following sentence beginnings below, and complete the sentence with your character cartoon.
ü Choose one of the following sentence middle below, and complete the sentence with your character cartoon.
ü Choose one of the following sentence ending below, and complete the sentence with your character cartoon.
ü Compose a short story in first-person, speaking as the character cartoon where you explain the character adventures or crossings.
ü Put a title to your story. Remember to keep in mind the beginning, middle and ending parts.
Beginning:
- To star, the saddest moment in life was when _____________________
- To begin, the thing that scares me the most is_____________________
- To commence, the thing that I remember most about my life is________
Middle:
- Unexpectedly, he/she continue to_____________________
- Suddenly, something curious happened_____________________
- So, he/ she go around_____________________
Ending:
- Finally, he/ she feel happy/ sad because_____________________
- At the end he/she remember that_____________________
- Lastly, all things have finished and_____________________
EXERCISE: MYTH TRUE OR FALSE?
ü Read the following statements about myths.
ü Circle true or false in each statement.
ü Check the example below.
ü After that, write in two lines what is a myth in your own words.
Myth
3. Myths are fictions stories. True / False
4. A story that is or was considered a true explanation of the natural world. True / False
5. Myths have as a main character a funny cartoon. True / False
6. Characters are often non-human – e.g. god True / False
7. It involves heroic characters or fantastic places and often includes the spiritual beliefs of the culture in which they originate. True / False
8. Myth tries to explain how something came to be in the universe. True / False
Now, define in your own words what a myth is:
EXERCISE: THE LEGEND OF THE SIRENS VIEW
ü Read the legend of the sirens. Use dictionary if it is necessary.
ü Complete the chart according to legend elements
The legend of the Sirens (1)
According to Greek mythology the sirens were fantastic creatures with half of the body in the form of bird and half woman. They were companions of Persephone(2) and when it abducted (3) by Hades, unable(4) to save her in retaliation(5) for what the mother of Persephone, the goddess Demeter, transformed it into a hybrid, half woman and half fish. They lived on the island(6) of Artemis and had a melodic singing like birds, extremely attractive, seductive, calling the attention of the sailors(7), warning them of the hidden charms of the underwater world, cheating and to make them fall into their trap and devour.
In the Odyssey, the Greek author Homer relates that when the ship Ulysses sailing off the island Artemis, he led his crew (8) with wax gourd their ears not to hear the seductive siren song and fall into evil charms. While he could not tolerate their curiosity and planned a strategy, tied to the mast of the ship and ordered not to let him loose for nothing. Faced with this frustration sirens drowned jumped into the sea. (9)
Now, complete the chart with legend elements:
Characters Description Places Description Fantastic elements
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