Hi to all!!
Today we have done our child profile to make a roleplay in class, so now we are going to show you our child profile.

• Our child is boy and his name is Aitor
•  He is 5 years old
• Aitor is relaxed and out-going boy. Also, he is intelligent and always be ready to take part in the class.
• He doesn´t like animals and sometimes it´s difficult to catch his atention.
• When the teacher is talking about some topic that he really dislikes, he gets very angry.
• His father is English.
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AITOR WISH YOU A GOOD WEEK!!!!!!!!!

Is it clil?

In this publication we will talk about one especific proyect that is still going on Zerain.
When Uxue was borned in Zerain, the teacher Kontxi thought that it was the moment to start with a new proyect. She decided to learn maths but without book. She thought that will be more interesting and motivating for the students to learn something that they would like to know. So, she decided to start teaching from the students interests.

Moreover, the proyect wasn't just in maths the proyect was based on teaching all the subjects like maths without books. So they will learn just one toppic and will start teaching it and go wherever the students like.

So, the cuestion is; is it clil?
Of course it is clil. Clil means or consists on convining the contents with the languages. So on the english/spanish case (because we will refere to a foreign or second language) in Zerain they work with clil. They work the family toppic but in english or spanish so they are mixing the contents (always from the students interests) with s language. So IT IS CLIL!.


Here we see that what we see on the theory can be used on the practise, so come on, if we want we can!

Have a really nice weekend

See you soon xxx

hezkuntza in the world



  

ACTIVITIES TO LEARNING ENGLISH IN ZERAIN SCHOOL

Hi friends!

Today we have been speaking about activities that we would do to learning English in Zerain school.

The first activity: TO DO A FAMILY BOOK/ALBUM
 In this activity, the students are going to take their family book.

The second activiy: RECOGNISE TO THE FAMILY
The students will put in the wall their families photos and the teacher will  say, for example: "Go to your father´s photo" Then, the children have to go to their father´s photo (there we can say like, go but, runnig, or walking, or jumping, or dancing... to make the activity funnyer).

The third activity: TO DO A DRAW
The students are going draw and in this draw will appear their father, mother, siblings, grandmother, grandfather... (their familiars)

The fourth activity: WHO IS WHO
This activity is to deducing who is the person of the family that the teacher is describing. for this exercise we can use the family album of the teacher or some students, so the teacher willl show the picture and after xplain who is who (she is my mother, he is my father) and after all the explanation, will say something like this: "Is someone that has sunglasses" or "Is someone that has a red t´shirt" and the students have to guess.

The fifth activity: FAMILY SONG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjFcrv6Lfx8

The sixth activity: INDEX CARD
The student are going to give at home the index card and their parents have to fill in. In this index card appear these information:
Name
Age
Job
After, we can analize all the information, and work differents toppics (but also if the students are interested on all of this).


The seventh activity:  PIGGYBOOK
The teacher is going to read the "piggybook "book. This book explain the story of a traditional family.
So, if the students are interested on the differents families, we can go through it.

That's all!!

We hope you like it!!

xxx

ELEANITZ PROIEKTUA

ELEANITZ PROIEKTUA

In this case we will talk you about Eleanitz Project.

The student who participate in this project, begin studying english with four years.

The positive sides of the Eleanitz project we think that are those that are below:

- The creative thinking.

- More flexibility talking about mental intelligence.

- Abilities/skills to the social communications and relationships.

- More facilities to learn another language.

This aproach, complements to the multilingual approach. Thats what we mean, although the Basque is the main language, this project helps you giving some facilities that are obtained to learn the Spanish, and so, other languages ​​such as English. The most innovative topic is the early exposure of the foreign language.

With this project  the objectives determined are those:

1.- Same opportunities to all the students to learn the two official languages, and to get the normalization and use of the Basque language.

2.- Achieve those skills: understanding, creating, reading, writing, analyzing, thinking over, attitude…

The requisites to can participate in that project:

a) To be schooled in “D eredua”.

b) To start learning english with 4 years old and continue until 16 years old.

c) Furthermore, to be completed the courses and the hours that are predicted for the cycles and states.

d) The projects equipment use on the right way.

e) They will chosse the teachers that make conditional on the project.

f)The teachers that take part in training meeting.

g) Take part in evaluation meeting.

h) Pay the expense of the project.

Also, it´s so important the knowledge of the teachers, becouse they have to use the correct tools to trasmit their knowledge to their students. But, we can´t forget about the tools that uses the school as well. These too things are so important to learn a new lenguage.

For this project the most important thing is the material that use in the classes, so for this reason if they don´t found the right material, they make their own material.

This are the list of the project´s material: (4 years to 18 years)

• Ready  for the story.
• The Adventures of Hocus and Lotus.
• Story Projects.
• The Explorers.
• Subejct Projects.
• SSLIC (Gizarte Arloa ingelesez)
• The culture of Europe.

Finaly,  the conclution of  the expert about this project is that the students that use this methon to learn English (child above everything), they don´t affect on their mom lenguage, in our case the Basque lenguage (we think that this is very important). So that means, the little children since four years can learn English without any problems of forget their lenguage.

Some questions to how to make the English learning happened.

Hi friends..... :#

Sorry friends, we had forgotten about writing the questions.

But, there we go;

1.- The English lesson is appropriate to do in the same class or is better to go to other class (to separate the languages with spaces and don’t  mix)?

2.- Is better to have 3 lessons for 30 minutes or is better to have one intensify lesson per week for 1 h and a half?

3.- How can we teach them in HH the written English if they don’t know writing their first language properly? Or is adequate to just work with the speaking English?

4.- Do we have to obligate the students to speak in English?

5.- Apart from groups  should we make exercises individually?

Those are our questions

xxx

PD: (Mejor tarde que nunca).

OUR EXAMPLE OF CLIL

Hello classmates,

In today's lesson we talked about the CLIL project. CLIL stands for Content and Language Integrated Learning. It refers to teaching subjects such as science, history and geography to students through a foreign (or not necessarily foreign) language. This can be by the English teacher using cross-curricular content or the subject teacher using English as the language of instruction.

So, we will do our own example of CLIL project.

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 The most important point for us is to teach English but in a funny way. We don't want our students to get bored; we want them to participate actively (of course, meanwhile learning). So the activities will be games.

-       Moreover, we will group our students. The objective is to cooperate and work in groups. (That’s because we think that in that way we can learn more and better).

-        Talking about methodology, we think that some rituals or routines makes the students feel better and be more relaxed (because they know that will happen). So to start the class we will sing a song. After, we will tell them a story, and this story will be related with the next activity that we are going to do. For instance, we will tell them a story about some colors and after they will draw the rainbow). And for the end of the class, we will finish it with a song or with a game. OF COURSE ALL THE TIME THE TEACHER WILL SPEAK IN ENGLISH AND ALL THE ACTIVITIES, SONGS AND EXERCISES WILL BE IN THAT LANGUAGE.

-       More things that we talked about our project; the teacher will make some open-questions so that the students will answer. Furthermore, the teacher will make repeating sentences or some words. (In our project, we decided that for us the most important thing is the speaking language, but we don’t rule out the written English.

-       The topics that we will work in our project are the ones that are interesting for OUR students. So, when we know our students we will decide the examples of the didactic units. But those who usually have much success or the most used are; animals, family, feelings, means of transport and community workers, body parts, colors… But as teacher, we will work the ones who are significant.

-     Talking about material, and according to the text we read about CLIL, we will use, CDs, DVDs, puppets, books, songs… (We require for the material; native English speakers).

Finally, we want to use English with a natural way (in discussions…).

WE KNOW THAT ALL OF THIS IS EASY TO WRITE, BUT NOT TO PUT IN PRACTISE, BUT DON’T DESMOTIBATE!! WITH PRACTISE AND WITH PATIENCE WE CAN ACHIECE.

COME ON FUTURE TEACHERS, YES WE CAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!

HELLO!!!

The last class, I was the journalist and we were talking about when, why and how learning a foreign language.
In our class we talked about different topics and now i'm going to share with you:

WHEN, WHY AND HOW LEARNING A LANGUAGE

• Some of us thought that beginning learning a language with four years is appropriate but you must know how to do it. But others, said that it´s not necessary to start learning English with four years. On the other hand, there are who said that it´s better begin learning English with 4 years because they will learn better the pronunciation.
• It´s more important the methodology than the age to start learning English.
• You can learn English hearing speaking to your teacher.
• Firstly you have to know speaking your mom language perfectly and then, you can study or learn the second or the third language.
• Begin learning English with 4 or 6 years doesn´t change the level that the child will get. But, there were others who said that  the children that begin learning English with 4 years have better level than the other children. 
• So, learning a language depend on two factors:

Exposures
The cuality

• High exposure does not neccesary correlate with higher competence. It´s the form, intensity and timing of exposure that may be more important factors.

HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND!!!!!!

                                                                                                 

Hi friends,
How are you? In this case, we will talk you about the age of the children of our project, and the reasons. We have been talking about it, and finally we have decided that the age of the children will be five years old.
On one hand, some of us thought that the ideal age is 6 years old, because we think that the first languages has to be learnt perfectly. And after, the foreign languages can take place on their lives.
On the other hand, some of us thought that the ideal age is 4 years old, because we think that if we start as soon as we can with other language is better and easyer to learn better, but also is important not to forget the first languages.
So finally, both of us agreed and decided that our proyect will be for children for 5 years old. We think that is important to start early but, before it, they have to  have learnt well the first languages.

Thank you for reading and have a nice wekeend!!!!!!