Lab. Session 1: Daily Routines


Welcome to the lab session 1


Topic: Daily Routines
Authors: Hilda Reyes and Beatriz Zavala
Time: 60 minutes
Level: A1

Hello!, welcome to the first lab session in this course. The  today's topic will be "Daily Routines" and the grammar is the simple present. Your teachers will be Hilda Reyes and Beatriz Zavala. We hope you enjoy this class!.

1- Watch the following video and pay attention to the lyric.
https://youtu.be/eUXkj6j6Ezw Time: 3 min.

2- Watch the video of daily routines, listen and repeat the pronunciation.
https://youtu.be/tiXAWq852Ts Time: 8 min.

3- Now we are going to learn about the structures for the simple present tense. Pay attention to them.
https://youtu.be/3W3AZ5Zw0n0 Time: 10 min.

4- Now that you know some daily routines. We are going to practice. Fill in the blank with the correct word.
learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/word-games/daily-routines Time: 10 min.

5- Here you have an exercise to practice the simple present. Go to the link and choose the exercise 8.
http://www.really-learn-english.com/simple-present-exercises.html Time: 15 min.

6- The next activity is going to be a basketball game. Try to answer as many good ones as you can.
https://www.gamestolearnenglish.com/basketball/ Time: 14 min.

7- The last activity is going to be a paragraph. You have to use some of the daily routines and the simple present tense that we studied in this class. Your paragraph has to have at least 8 lines. For this last activity, you will have until saturday's midnight to send it as an e-mail to the teachers.

Comentarios

Publicar un comentario

Entradas populares de este blog

Week 1: Computers and Language Learning

Imagen
Rate: 4 Based on the article "Computers and Language Learning: an Overview" by Mark Barschauer and Deborah Healey. As a future teachers is important to learn diferents kind of methods that will be useful for us when we develop a class. This article mention an important tool that we used nowadays. It talks about the computer and the impact in the language learning. The article said that the use of a computer in a language learning could facilitate the hability of fingertips and also learning to read, write and communicate through a computer. The use of a computer in a learning language process can be divide in behaviouristic CALL, communicative CALL and integrative CALL. The behaviouristic CALL is a stage in which the computer is use as a tutor and based on the article the best plataform is "Plato", because it has a system that use extensive drills, translations and grammatical explanations. In the communicative CALL stage said that this only use pre-fab...
Leer más

Week 13: How students' participation helps in their learning process?

Imagen
Rate: 5 Based on the articles: "10 Benefits of Getting Students to Participate in Classroom Discussions" by Maryellen Weimer and "Increase Student Interaction with 'Think-Pair-Shares' and 'Circle Chats'" by Kristina Robertson. As teachers, we know that is important to keep students participating in class. In this way, we notice their comprehension of the topic and also is a good way to check their advance in the language by giving their opinion. And this is something that the articles mentioned and offers some good ideas of how we can make students participate. The first article mentioned 10 benefits of students' participation and I am going to explain all of them. First, "Participation adds interest" it said that for students is bored only listen the teacher explanation and that something that could help is ask for students' opinion; maybe one of the students have an idea of the topic and it could be meaningful for them lis...
Leer más

Week 6: The use of videos and sound effects to teach English (speaking skills)

Imagen
Rate: 5 Based on the articles: "The employment of CALL in Teaching Second/Foreign Language Speaking Skills" byJulia Gong, and "Using Original Video and Sound Effects to Teach English" by Shahla Yassaei. Communicate is one of the principal things that humans has to develop, because in this way we transmit all our knowledge or whatever that we want to share with others. There are many ways to communicate, but today, we are going to focus on speaking. When you are learning a second language, you has to develop your speaking skill. And teachers need to know different ways to make that their students communicate what they learn. In the past, teachers used a traditional way to make their students speak; they used the method of repetition. They believe that in this way their students will learn. But the problem with the repetition is that students only said the phrases that they learned, this method was a little mechanic. Nowadays, we have a lot of resources to make ...
Leer más