jueves, 26 de noviembre de 2015

Songs for kids!

You can't expect young children to learn English without a lot of repetition.  We can help you make this repetition fun.
Songs are absolutely ideal for language learning as children love them and will want to hear them over and over again - perfect for vocabulary acquisition and language learning.
You may have noticed that if you expect your child or pupils to sit still and listen to you while you show them flashcards, you will not have their attention for long!
Successful teaching is all about variety, movement and using resources that appeal to young children. Young children love games, they love stories and they love songs.
If you want to get your pupils to the point that they can actually sing along to these songs then you need simple ones, not too many words, and it's even better if the words match up with what you are already teaching in class.
Here you have easy songs that you can use to teach your students in a funny way:
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  Hello, good morning! 
It is a song you can sing with kids from 4 to 6 years, is a nice song for greet and star the class every day. This song is based on the original Mexican tune to La Cucaracha!

LYRICS:
Hello good morning, hello good morning
how is everyone today CHA CHA CHA
Hello good morning, hello good morning
I'm so glad you came to play CHA CHA CHA
The sun is shining, the birds are singing
What a way to start the day CHA CHA CHA
If we keep singing, hello good morning
We'll be happy come what may CHA CHA CHA
Welcome to the show!

·         Colors song: 
It is a song about colors enhances word recognition, vocabulary, comprehension, memory and recall. Make learning colors fun for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergartners.

LYRICS:
If you are wearing red, shake your head
If you are wearing red, shake your head
If you are wearing red, if you are wearing red
If you are wearing red, shake your head

If you are wearing blue, touch your shoes
If you are wearing blue, touch your shoes
If you are wearing blue, if you are wearing blue
If you are wearing blue, touch your shoes

If you are wearing black, pat your back
If you are wearing black, pat your back
If you are wearing black, if you are wearing black
If you are wearing black, pat your back

·         This is me! 
A fun and energetic body parts and action song for kids, We think of it as, “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" with an extra shot of FUN! From head to chin to fingers to toes, your students will love this.

LYRICS:
Head, eyes, nose
Mouth, ears, chin
Arms, hands, fingers
Legs, feet, toes
This...is...ME!
Here we GO!

My head, my eyes, my nose
This is ME!
My mouth, my ears, my chin
This is ME!

This is ME!
This is ME!
This...is...ME!


Professional development

Why professional development?

Professional development can provide the drive to progress your teaching practices. Professional development is something you will do every day of your life without even thinking about it; however, being conscious of the development you undertake will allow you to record this and develop in a systematic way. In order to maximize your potential, it is essential that you maintain high levels of professional competence by continually improving your knowledge and skills.
Any one who wishes to stay competitive and effective needs to be constantly changing and adapting within its business environment and this means that practitioners need to be adapting and learning to deal with these changes.  A learning culture embeds professional development into the heart of the school and ensures that knowledge is shared between teams and individuals to improve practice.  This will in turn lead to continuous improvement across an organization.A learning culture encourages people to ask questions, share successes and lessons learned, and to propagate and cross-fertilize ideas.  It allows individuals to reflect and treats then as individuals, with their own learning needs, rather than generic resources which allows the organization to take advantage of strengths and allowing individuals to focus on areas of development to improve their skills and practice.An ELT practitioner needs to be updated and know about many teaching tools to make the process much easier and effective and make students better assimilate the contents presented.
Now we have here some tools as articles, eBooks, podcasts, videos and web sites that can help ELT practitioners to improve their skills to have more effective classes:1.       Methodology in language teaching (eBook). This book seeks to provide an overview of current approaches, issues and practices in the teaching of English to speakers of other language. https://books.google.com.sv/books?hl=es&lr=&id=VxnGXusQlI8C&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=professional+development+for+elt+teachers&ots=qgstrd8vnN&sig=hN-Ywricrrim7lVfQMrpsCZ3th4#v=onepage&q=professional%20development%20for%20elt%20teachers&f=false2.       Class charts:  is a very useful website, here you will learn how to improve student’s behavior and it will help you to know how to manage a class in which not all the students are the same.
https://www.classcharts.com/3.       Magic box English kids channel:  is a very useful YouTube channel that contains many videos and songs that will help you to teach kids in a very funny way.
 https://www.youtube.com/user/MagicboxEngRhy/featured4.       Teaching English games:  is a web site in which you will find games, stories, songs, flashcards and resources.
http://www.teachingenglishgames.com/eslsongs.htm

Teachers have a successful tool in order to give a good class: LESSON PLAN. Teachers use the lesson plan to follow what they want to teach, specifying activities and the time that activities will take. Teahers have many ways which they can create a lesson plan with, but we are going to present some examples of lesson plans. The lesson plan has to be very specific with the things it says because maybe there will be a time in which a teacher will not be able to teach a class and someone could substitute him o her. If you do not use lesson plans, begin to use them. 

 LESSON PLAN
Name of the School: CETEC
Teacher´s Name: Ariel Romero Figueroa
Grade/Level: Basic Intensive English
Date and time: November, Friday the 27th; Sunday 29th the 2015
Target Topic: Statements and questions with the past of “be”; Wh. questions with did, was, and were.
Objective: Teaching students about wh- questions with the verb to be.
Materials: AVS
PROCEDURE
7:30-7:35
Introduce myself to the students and tell them what the topic is about.
7:35-7:40
Homogeneously, the group will try to remember important things about the last class.
7:40-7:55
The teacher will give the students information about how to create Wh- questions with the “Be” verb.
7:55-8:10
Students will watch a video related to the questions with the Be verb.
8:10-8:15
Students will prepare questions to grade how much they have learned about the explained topic.
8:15-8:20
Teacher with students will make a review of the questions they created.


 

miércoles, 25 de noviembre de 2015

Didactics of the English Language I

Didactics of the English language is a subject that refers to teach English to very young learners. Children are able to acquire the language easier than adults. Didactics is a subject which feeds your knowledge with many tools in order to offer a variety of helps for your English skills. Not every children is the same, and teacher must understand that. If you are a teacher, it means that you have to be able to bring the best ways so that every single student can acquire the language, not learn it.