ENGLISH LANGUAGE DIDACTIC BLOG DANIEL ALONSO

What did you do? That day we had a conference, in which a principal of a rural school came to talk about how is to work there. Back to class, we talked a bit about what we thought about that conference.  We also talked a little about bloom taxonomy and started briefly the evaluation unit. What did you learn? We talked a little about repetition in elementary school children. we could learn that repeating can be a hard shock for most of the children. It is important to make the decision, studying each child individually and helping them with the change and the role of families is fundamental in these cases. We also learned that the stages of bloom taxonomy range from the simplest (remember) to the most complex (create) To create is the most complex stadium. For elementary school children it is very complex to create, maybe they can do it in the last year of primary. What is your opinion? I think that if a child does not reach the expec...

What did you do? It was a day of presentations and it was the turn of chapter 5 and 6 of the book "English for Primary Teachers". The first presentation was about how to speak more fluently, and it was done by Carla and Marta Hita and the second was about how to read in the primary school and it was done by Sonia and Marta Martín. What did you learn? Some of the things we learned during that day were that the best way to learn how to speak is through games. Some of the games that we can practiced in class to learn how to speak are below:            Pass the ball: the students put themselves in a circle with a ball. Meanwhile a song is sounding, and the students have to throw the ball. When the music stops, the person who has the ball has to answer the questions of the teacher. For example: they have to say from a photo of a kitchen two objects they can see and the name of the space they are looking at.           Ot...

What did you do? That day we had a long class because  we  gathered the 2 hours of the 25 th of October day with those of the 26 th of October. We were discovering that a bloom's taxonomy is. It’s a document that it will help us to prepare activities for our syllabus, and the didactic unit. It’s divided from the low-level thinking skills, until the high-level thinking skills. We can find some key words and verbs in every level that It will be very useful for us. We also can find some questions to help us. We started the unit 4 “ICT for the teaching of English”, and we were knowing many different apps. We also did a test to know if we have different ICT competences that every teacher of XXI century should have. What did you learn? Here, I am to describe some of the applications that we were working with this day in class. First of all, we were practicing with google sites. It is a tool for creating web pages. This application allows you to create a websit...