Using Genially with young learners is quite a challenge. We have used food as the main topic to our project. There was pair work but each student in order to practise writing skills had to prepare a food menu. Then, they decided which one they wanted to use in their oral presentation. There were 12 oral presentations based on the food topic and the comunicative function: What do you have for breakfast/lunch /dinner? I have…. As there is only an interactive whiteboard in the class we worked together to prepare this interactive picture with Genially for the blog. Students choose songs from Youtube related to the topic. And we put links to then. For my students the best part was listening to songs and selecting them. I realise that working with Genially was too difficult for most of them, they got lost and easily distracted. But we love the results!

SUPERHEROES ARE ALWAYS SURROUNDING US

 Are you a superhero? Do you have super powers?

You don't need to wear a cape or magic boots to be a superheroe, the important thing is to protect people, animals, plants, and take care of the Planet.

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Written models are useful for very young learners when learning to write in English

 

Learning to write in English is a big challenge for children or even adult learners. We must realise that English words don't sound as they are written. Therefore, it is important to provide examples and practice in order to improve this skill.

 

We use repetitive activities following written models for students to become aware of the writing process without noticing it. This is one of the activities we have recently done.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHAT IS HEALTHY ?

We have studied new food vocabulary , what is good for our health and some structures. Therefore I have selected two different videos related to this subject.

I wanted to see if my students could use edpuzzle as a tool to practice the language by themselves at home.

In these short videos my students had to repeat some words and answer some  questions that we have previously studied in class.  What do you have for...?

Not all the pupils have done the task but most of them did it. I am really proud of them.

Next time I will prepare longer videos in order to learn more vocabulary.