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Teacher Daniela
This is my adorable group!!!
Welcome back!!!
Let´s learn and have some fun together!
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Introductions
On the first day of class students were asked to introduce themselves using the ipads.
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ENVIRONMENT: TINY HOUSES
Students discussed about the text on the book which talks about tiny houses and their importance to the environment.After that ,in pairs, they were asked to talk to their partners about how their tiny houses could be. Then, they were given the ipads, as well as the app they were supposed to use, to work on their projects which was drawing their houses while describing them using their voices.Students had written a script beforehand to facilitate the speaking activity.
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Happy Saint Patrick´s Day
March 17,2016
Every year on March 17, the Irish and the Irish-at-heart across the globe observe St. Patrick’s Day. What began as a religious feast day for the patron saint of Ireland has become an international festival celebrating Irish culture with parades, dancing, special foods and a lot of green.
Teachers brought some green ice cream for students to have on Saint Patrick´s day.
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Past and now
Students were asked to draw a city in two different moments: past and present
Then, they were asked to make a video of them talking about their city using the target structure: THERE TO BE past and present
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As students have been studying the past simple, during the class they were asked to work in groups in order to write the biographies of some historical people. They were asked to choose the ones they were going to write about, as well, as to use the app called comic life.
CAIXA DE TEXTO
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Students were asked to watch a video about the celebration. Then, they were divided into 3 groups in order to perform different activities. The first group was told to google information about the historical aspect of the holiday, the second one was supposed to look for information about the typical food while the third was in charge of searching about the influence of the holiday on the American culture.
Students discussed, pointed out a lot of interesting aspects on the holiday and exchanged several information about Mexico and the USA.
The following activity was on how to prepare a typical Cinco de Mayo dish: the Taco. Students watched a video in which they were taught on how to prepare a taco salad. Teachers provided the students with some chilli, doritos bags, tomatoes, onions, lettuce, cheese and tabasco pepper. Students tasted the Taco Salad served in the doritos bag.
They had a lot of fun!
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Personal development activity
Students were given a speech regarding exchange opportunities: exchange programs and higher education.
Professor Rafael Duarte talked to students about the importance of studying English.
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Let´s have a picnic...
Using the quantifiers:
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Ethinic tolerance
In class students were asked about some international food, buritos ,for example, which was part of the lesson studied. Then, the discussion was led to immigration issues, especially in the USA. Students were introduced to Lynda, an immigrant who lives in the USA and who recorded a video talking about her family.
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Types of transportation and occupations
What do you do?
How do you commute?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoXECAySdgw&feature=em-upload_owner
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Students were asked to interview someone in their family using the questions below:
- What time do you go to work?
- How do you go to work?
- How long does it take you ?
- What do you do at your work?
- Do you do any kind of physical exercise?
- What is your daily diet?
Then, they were told to write a paragraph about it.
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Civil Society
How do people with disabilities commute?
Students were asked to create a power point presentation in order to show how people with physical disabilities commute.
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Making future plans...
Students were asked to make future plans using going to and the app called infinote.
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Back to school activities
First day, August 19th
First students used emoji dices to talk about their vacation.They had to roll the dices and use the emojis to describe what they did during their vacation ,as well as, how they felt while going through that specific situation .
Ex:
I got really upset during my vacation because my father had to cancel our trip to Caldas Novas.
The following activity was a warmer for the book topic: priorities
Students came up with their top 10 emojis and the teacher came up with the top ten American ones. Students had to compare the emojis they frequently use with the ones Americans do and try to guess what kind of life style each one has according to the type of emoji they most use.After that, students were told to talk about their life priorities and make a poster using piccollage to illustrate their answers.
Then, another activity also developed about setting life priorities was: Students had to stand up and walk looking for peers who have the same priorities as they do. So whenever they found a person with whom they shared the same goals in life, they had to take an usie with that person. It was an adaptation of the find someone who..
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Advertisements
For this activity students were invited to create their posters to advertise the reading corner they are going create and manage in their regular schools as the final volunteer project.They were expected to use canva.com to design the posters and the grammar point will + senses.
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Environmental issues
For this enhancement activity students had the chance to talk about a very significant issue: environmental changes caused by the severe interference of the human being.
At first students watched the trailler of the movie: An inconvenient truth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bu6SE5TYrCM. Then, they were guided to discuss how and why the men have caused such changes in the environment.
Finally, they were asked to express their opinions by using any kind of material, such as ipads, posters, videos and/or hashtags.
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Democracy and civil society
American elections
On the 4th of November, Students had the chance to know about the American election process. The beginning of the class was dedicated to that topic.First, Students were asked about what they knew of the American election process, then they watched a video segment in which the American election process was explained thoroughly. After that, in groups of 4, they were told to share what they had understood of the video.Finally ,to check understanding, they followed a power point presentation and had the chance to simulate a campaingn, however it was to decide who was going to be the student speaker on the day of their graduation ceremony.
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A maker day
On November 11, Students went on a school trip to visit the maker space in Asa Norte.
They had the chance to do some experiments ,as well as, practice the vocabulary and the grammar topics they have been learning . It was such a wonderful afternoon and students had a lot of fun too.
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Thanksgiving celebration
On November 25 the students celebrated Thanksgiving day, by having a delicious lunch, which was prepared specially for the day: they had turkey as the main dish and some delicious desserts.
Before eating, they took their time to say thanks to all their blessings and two students were chosen beforehand to say some prayers.
The room was decorated to receive the students, as well as, the tables, on which there were their name tags and picture frames of the whole group.
It was such a great day!
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Workshop - Librarianship skills - week 1
Workshop - Librarianship skills - week 1
For our first workshop about Librarianship skills, Maguimar, from our Resource Center, told our students about the characteristics of the profession. She also informed them about the best Universities to study and their career prospects. Here is her powerpoint presentation.
Reading Corner - Personal statements
Reading Corner - Personal statements
Students were taught how to write personal statements and shared their views for the projects. By reading their classmate's statements, students will have more resources to form teams and create the reading corners. The statements were lightly edited for grammar and spelling.
Click here to read them.
Workshop - Librarianship skills - week 2
Workshop - Librarianship skills - week 2
The students learned basic cataloguing skills and formed small groups to implement the reading corner project in their communities.
Workshop - Librarianship skills - week 3
Workshop - Librarianship skills - week 3
The students got into groups and worked on a draft of the checklist they will use on their projects. Here's a template of the file they worked on.
Reading Corner - Student work
It's the end of the year and students are using their new skills to create a special corner in their schools where they will promote English Language learning and the Access program itself. They will use these corners to share their talents with ther community. They will pass the space on to students from the program who will still be studying next year.
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