Ceremony

DEAR STUDENTS:

THANK YOU SO MUCH!

Teachers Jackie and Ricardo opening the Closing Ceremony

The objective of this ceremony was to show students how important they were to us during this semester. without them, this wouldn't have been posible.

Teacher Ligia and Bonifacio making a dynamic.

We recalled some of the dynamics presented during the whole semester. Studens had a lot of fun!!

Besides that, We had Carol Hills singing for us some of her own songs. That was wonderful!

Also, some students were in charge to give some beautiful words to students. 

Students receiving the certificate!!!

At the end, students received their diploma and we shared some food with them.

Wednesday, October 25th

LISTENING

Topic: Hopes and Dreams

Teachers:  Tirsa, Abigail, Sara, Irene, Jose, Carolina

On this lesson teachers had the objective to stimulated students listening. Using a story related to hard work and love.

At first teachers decided to start the class with a warm up were students were separated in two groups and they have to place in order the parts of the while listening at it.

Then they start explaining difficult vocabularies from the audio, and after everything is clear they had another activity were students received a bunch of pictures and they must put it in order, using just their logic. When they finished teachers played the audio with the story so students can be able to check and verify that they got the correct order.

After all that the students will receive a handout with a story written on it but with some missing words, that students must complete while they listen to an audio with the story and must identify the missing word and write it.

When finish that they had a second activity related to the same audio were they have to answered some questions related to the story.

To continue with the class students have to use the vocabularies they have learned and tell out loud what were they dreams. By the end of the class after they have heard their classmates dreams they will give advices to their classmates to accomplish they dreams

READING

We had Dania, Sara, Ligia, Karen and Bonifacio with the travel blogs topic.

They started the class by making two groups in order for them to put on the board a word so they could organize it. the letter was carried for the students while they tried to keep the balance with a glass that was placed on their hands.

The next part consisted with the teacher selecting a keyword, so they can put it on the glass. with the group splitted into two they draw a word on the word on the board that the teacher told them, so they could guess.

Teachers gave students a reading about Rachel's 4 weeks in south america, the read it first by their own and second out loud with a partner. with the board divide in 4 sections students wrote the things they remembered from the reading. they picked pairs and then make questions about reading so the teacher could prove if the text was understood.

After that the teacher placed 4 flags of different countries on the board so the students could work in pairs to choose words or phrases to put them on the correct flag. the words of the phrases were related with the reading.

Finally they had some music. hats were given so they could pass them, when the music stopped the one that has the hat should ask a question ...  which country from the ones mentioned before would you like to visit and why?

Wednesday, October 18th

VOCABULARY

Teachers´ name: Dennisse Carranza

 Nathalia Castillo

 Gema Rivera

 Kathia Hernández

 Maria Nochez

Objective: By the end of the lesson students will able to create dialogues using questions about bad and good experiences.

Topic: Bad and good experiences.

           Vocabulary

Teachers divided the class in two groups and students played a game called, twister. Teachers splitted the roulette and students needed to follow directions.

After that teachers asked students if they have had a good experience or a bad experiences and they had to mention in the class. Later students repeated some phrases 2 times. Then teachers gave some second to see some questions and images that were on the board then they had to link the questions with the corresponding images.

In the practice students had to read some questions on a piece of paper and they had to stand up and asked those question to the other teachers then, they shared them.

For the production teachers asked to make groups of three, students had 3 objects and they used to create a dialogue.

Teacher ended the class by asking questions they remembered of the class.

GRAMMAR

TEACHERS: Michelle Marroquin – Jacqueline Contreras – Michell Hernández – Sandra Rodezno - Brendaly Fernández – Ricardo Videz

🎩The purpose of the class is Ss learning about the structure and use of the Present Perfect.🎩

🏁The activities chosen were:

🐍Board Game: Snakes

Ss had to make two groups; each member was supposed to write vocabulary on the board, following instructions given by the teacher.

🍸Grammar Introduction: 

A list of verbs was presented to Ss, including past participle.

Teacher explained the structure of the Present Perfect (aff., neg., questions)

🍫Worksheet practice:

Ss had to work on an exercise, using the veerbs previously studied to practice Pre.Perf.

🍭Board race:

Ss had pieces of paper that completed a sentence. They had to read the papers and form a sentence. The first group that had it on the board, wins.

🐾Have you ever game:

Ss stood in front of the classroom to answer yes/no questions using "Have you ever..."

Wednesday, October 11th

Listening Lesson  |  October 11th

Topic: “The way we are || Habits”  

Teachers: Ligia Ester Hernández / Dania Lissette Crespín/ Karen Vanessa Gómez / José Luis Bonifacio / Sara Elizabeth Chévez

In this lesson, teachers decided to start with a kinesthetic way by using some music and a basket. Students made two groups, after that they tossed a ball into a basket whenever a ball got into the basket SS took a paper with a habit in it, after that, they had to put the habit next to the corresponding image. As a pre-listening activity Ts gave SS images and as T was reading SS had to identify if the image given corresponded to the description of the teacher. It was a really good way to activate students previous knowledge. To continue with the listening activity, Ts played audio and SS had to prove their comprehension by  putting a conversation in order. To wrap up the class, t asked the students to stand up and passing a series of balloons with music in the background, when music stopped SS had to pop the balloon and answer the question inside.  This was a very active class and SS were engaged in every activity.

READING

Topic: CELEBRITIES

Teachers: Sarita / Carolina / Aby / José / Tirsa / Sofia

This reading class started with a very good warm-up. T Caro was in charge of it. It was about guessing songs. T played each song and SS had to say the name of the song. This activity made SS be active since the very first moment of the class. Then, the next activity was explained by T Sarita. The dynamic was the following: there were about 6 name of famous people written on the board, SS had to stand up and write some facts about each of them. I liked the fact that SS knew a lot of information about those artist and they were active participating.

As activity for the during stage, Ts gave SS a page with information with facts of the same artists in the previous exercise but in this time SS had to fill the spaces needed. After that, SS had to write 2 or 3 lines about one of the artist and then pass in front and share the information with the class. Finally, Ts made some questions as a wrap-up to check of SS understood or remembered information given in the class.

Wednesday, October 4th

VOCABULARY

TEACHERS: Michelle Marroquin – Jacqueline Contreras – Michell Hernández – Sandra Rodezno - Brendaly Fernández – Ricardo Videz

💭The objective of the class was to reinforce the knowledge students have when describing people's personality and character.

💜The class had many activities that made students participate actively the whole time. 💜

💥The Hot Seat: 

In which Ss had to guess titles of songs, name of artists, etc. to avoid confetti on their heads. 

💬Vocabulary Introduction:

Ss were given a worksheet to read, so they could get familiar with the vocabulary. There were words that are used to give description.

💟Matching Game:

It's objective was to check student's comprehension and understanting of the vocabulary. While a song was being played, Ss had to walk around to look for their partner; one had the word learned, the other had the definition.

📜Writing a Description:

Ss has to put into practice the learned vocabulary by wrinting a small pharagraph describing a person that inspires them so later they could report it to the classs.

🔍Secret Description:

To end the class and make sure the vocabulary was understood, Ss has to secretly describe their classmates writing a word in a piece of paper pasted on each student's back.

TOPIC: MANNER ADVERBS VS ADJECTIVES

Teachers: Gema Rivera / Nathy Castillo / María Noches / Katia Hernández / Denisse Carranza

 This class started by an activity that consisted that Ts show 10 objects and then SS had to write down the ones the remembered. Then, Ts started with the grammar explanation. The topic was: Manner adverbs and adjectives. They gave the explanation and examples. 

In the practice stage, Ts did an exercise about fill in the blanks, SS had to put the correct adjective ad adverb. As a second exercise for this stage, SS had to explote a ballon and it contained an adjective or adverb, the SS had to make a sentence with that word.

After that, SS had to make the last exercise in a piece of paper. Finally, SS had to mention at least 2 adjectives or adverbs they remembered.

Wednesday 20th. Listening and Reading

Topic: Plans for the future

Objective: to make students use the future on writing and talking.

Teachers started with a questions in the board and student had to share their information with their classmates. What are your plans for the future?

After that teacher played an audio about plans for the future, then students spoke about a character and they mentioned what they said.

Finally, students passed to complete an exercises in the board.

Wednesday 13th Vocabulary and Grammar

 

Topic: Professions and trades

Teachers´name: Tirsa Guevara

                            Sara Domiguez

                            Carolina Zuniga

                            Sofia Vides

Objective:  Accomplish our students to understand what are professions and trades about by exposing them to 8 different professions and trades in a creative way and also reinforcing the knowledge by giving them a handout with 3 written actvities.

Teachers started by asking students if they know the diffeerences betwen professions and trades. After that they showed images and students said which is profession and which is trade.

Then students listened a simple and brief description to better understand the professions and trades.

 

Finally teachers ended the class by asking a question: Which one do you like the most? 

Topic:  Modal Verb

Teachers´name: José Luis Bonifacio

                            Sara Chevez

                            Liga Hernández

                            Dania Crespín 

                            Karen Vanessa Gómez

Objective: Identify the tructure and the uses of  modal verbs.

Teachers started asking students about modal verbs, when can we use them? Teachers explained the topic and then teachers played a song and student had to underline the modals were mentioned. 

After that a teacher explained the structure of the modals and gave examples. Students passed to write the structure of the modals on the board.

To conclude, students did some exercises and they played a game.

Wednesday 6th Listening and reading

 Topic: Texting

Teachers:  Nathalia Castillo         

                   Kathia Pérez

                   Gema Rivera

                   Denisse Carranza

                   María Noches

                   Amada Alfaro

Objective: By the end of the lesson students will be able to demonstrate reading comprehension by analyzing the main idea of each paragraph and answering 8 questions related to the topic.

Teachers started with a game called “Memory game”. Students remembered the pairs of abbreviations with the meaning in the time that teacher said. 

After that teachers gave a text and student read the text aloud and then they analized one paragraph and wrote what they understood. 

Finally the teacher asked students if everything of the class is clear or if they have doubts teachers helped them to get a clear explanation. 

Wednesday 30th Vocabulary and grammar

Topic:  On the phone           

Teacher’s name: José Luis Bonifacio

                              Sara Elizabeth Chévez 

                              Dania Lissette Crespín

                              Karen Vanessa Gómez 

                              Ligia Ester Hernández

Objective: At the end of the lesson students will be able to use phrases related to phone conversation in real life situations.

Teachers started with a dynamic called "Chinese Whispers". The game consists on the teacher whispering a phrase to students and they have to pass the phrase without modification. 

Then teachers introduced the vocabulary through a dialogue, student read the dialogue and they repeated the words as many times as necessary.

Teachers ended the class asking questions related to the topic in order to make the students use the vocabulary learned. 

Topic:  Comparative and Superlative

Teacher’s name:  Abigail Guevara
                              Tirsa Guevara
                              Carolina Zuniga
                              Sara Dominguez
                              Sofia Vides

Objective: Teach students how comparative and superlative adjectives works in order they can make use of them properly. 

Teacher started with a warm up showing pictures of different objects in different sizes in order to ask student wich is bigger and smaller.

Then teachers introduced the topic and they explained how to use the comparative and the superlative.

As a conclude the class students wrote sentences on the board and teacher corrected if they need.

Hello! My name is Michell Hernández, I am 22 years old. I live in Comasagua.

I am  studying Translation and Interpretation at Universidad Evangelica.

My hobbies are watch action movies, I really like listen to music and go out with my family, 

I love spend time with them. 💜💜

Teaching English Didactics

Productive skill

There are several ways to teach a lesson and even more ways for students to learn. If we are looking for a speaking activity, we can develop a good one if we consider this framework.

It's effective because it's organized, coherent and helps you to meet specific objectives of your class.

The stages are:

1. Present - Here the students get the context teachers will use, the vocabulary is introduced, grammar and pronunciation are as well checked. Stating opinions is very useful for this stage.

Teachers may go from brainstorming, dialogues to watching a video.

2. Practice - In this stage, students are given tasks that will help them develop their use of grammar, and put into practice the vocabulary they have learned.

Some exercises can include selecting correct answers, finding and correct errors or matching activities.

3. Production - In this part, teachers must complete a communicative task to make sure the objectives are met.

Activities like making comparisons, interpretations or sharing personal information.

Receptive skill The PDP Framework

This lesson framework helps teachers plan and deliver effective listening, video and reading lessons.  The framework is based on research and using it helps ensure students are motivated, engaged and active before, while and after (pre, during and post – PDP) listening to, watching or reading a text.

The stages of the framework are:

• Pre   Ss prepare to listen:

Ø  they talk about their knowledge or and experience with the topic of the listening or reading

Ø  they understand the meaning of key vocabulary in the text

Ø  they understand what they will listen or read for in the text before they begin working with it

Ø  they can make predictions about what the text will be about.

• During   Ss focus their attention on the listening or reading text and complete tasks which develop and deepen their understanding of the text progressively (i.e., from simpler and more general to more complex and more specific).  They can also do tasks that help them develop specific listening and reading skills.
• Post   Ss extend and integrate the understanding and knowledge they gained from working with the listening or reading text into other skills areas or contexts.  

How to teach listening

We have to be clear the meaning of listening and Listening is the ability to accurately receive and interpret messages in the communication process.

Listening is key to all effective communication. Without the ability to listen effectively, messages are easily misunderstood.

There is a type of listening:

·         Active listening involves listening with all senses.  As well as giving full attention to the speaker, it is important that the ‘active listener’ is also ‘seen’ to be listening - otherwise the speaker may conclude that what they are talking about is uninteresting to the listener.

In the purposes of listening we can consider interactional and transactional functions of language.

BOTTOM UP: consist on decoding the message.

TOP-DOWN:  relies on the recognition of sounds, words and grammar

The purposes of language

In the purposes of listening we can consider interactional and transactional functions of language.

Interactional, the focus is on creating harmonious interaction among individuals. Interactional use of language centers on such safe topics as the weather, food, etc.

Transactional use focuses attention on the content of the message. Emphasis is on transferring information.