HI TO ALL!!
Here you have the direction of our project and we hope you like it!!

http://issuu.com/nereaarbelaiz/docs/inglesekoproiektua

HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Presenting Projekt´s first ideas

Hi everyone!!

Like the last week it said, we have to talk about a little about our projekt. So now we are going to explain you about it.
The school that we have choosen is Ondarreta Public School. This school is near San Sebastian.

Ondarreta is a public School and the reason which we have chosen it is because we think it is very interesting working in a public school and also because there are a lot of type  of students for example: portuguese, moroccan, gypsy and basque students. We have to say that the most of them have as maternal language Spanish.

On the other hand, we have to talk about the characteristic of our students. Our students are five years old and some of them are immigrant. 

The topic that we decide to teach is about family. We will work the topic about the family with the english. Also,  we introduce in our project for example: general objectives, objectives of the unit, contents, competences, activities, criteria for evaluation, methodology, differents models of education that we would aplicate in our project, and finally the parents collaboration.

Well, this is our project, but not all of it. If you want to know more you have to wait until we publish it or ask personally and we will give you more information.

 

 Have a nice long weekend!!

Role-play

Hi to all!!

The last week we started with the role-play in class and nowadays we can say that we have learnt those points to have in mind.

1. Talk in English. From our point of view, the teacher must to speak all of the time in English. That’s to not mix the English and the Basque languages. So, in the English class time the teacher has to talk in English. That’s why the teacher has to divide the normal class (Basque) and the English one (in case that there is just one teacher for both languages, like in Zerain). For it we can use some extra elements or accessories to make easier the division. For instance, wigs. 

2. The teacher must be careful with the vocabulary and the grammar forms that uses. It is necessary to keep in mind that the recipients are children.

3. We think that giving examples is the best way for teaching. For example, if we are teaching colors we can show them some color manleys.

4. When we were seeing the different role-playings, we realize the importance of patience. The teacher has to be patience to teach slowly and repeat everything more than once. Apart of this, the teacher must do signs.

5. The possibility of doing extra activities. In those role-playings we saw a big variety of different examples of activities; singing songs, painting, pointing, watching videos, going to trips, reading books… we can accurate the activities or the styles depending on the teachers interests. Also is important to star teaching from the teachers’ interests.

6. In our role-playing, we had the chance to teach to the children some extra contents that we hadn’t prepared before. But the kids started saying the colors of the crayons and we can use that moment to teach them the colors names. So, we don’t have to say what we had planned, we can afford every moment to teach English.

So, that’s what we learnt. We are waiting to see your publications

See you!

Hezkuntza in the World. 

Hi to all!!

I´m Nerea and yesterday I was the journalist of the class. So now I´m going to explain you what happed in the class.

First, Natalia read us a part of a book called, THE ELEPHANT IN CHAINS. The books topyc was about if you don´t try something that you really want to do it, you will never get it. It was very interested topyc, because, we can connect it with something in our lives.
Then, Eli, Maialen, Leire and me, explain our activities about how to introduce the English in a class, but we had to use the Zerain model of education. 

• The first activity was meet Uxue and sing a song if she was awake.
• The second activity was draw Uxue.
• The third activity was show you a album family.
• And the last activity was draw their each one family and then write your family members.

And that is all!!

Have a nice day!!
See you later!!

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