Mice

Activities about reading technique

Skimming

1.      How many kinds of mice is the text talking about?

 

                            three                           five                        two

 

2.      Which is the smallest kind of mice?
 

pygmy mouse               jumping mouse         harvest mouse         dormouse

 

Scanning

1.      The jumping mouse has______back feet.

short                               long                    narrow

2.      Small dormice sleep for seven______every year.

nine                             seven              five

3.      The harvest mouse can_____very well.

eat                                climb                 fly

 

Intensive reading

1.      Read again jumping mouse and later drawing it and its food.

Making inferences

1.      Who can sleep inside of a sock?

H_____         M______

 

2.      Which mouse can see a snowboarder?

H_____         M_______

 

3.      Who can touch the sky?

_______________

 

4.      If you were Julio Cesar which mice prefer to eat?

_______________

Predicting

Before reading the text we will ask some questions about mice:

1.What is a mouse?

Animal                        toy                             clothes

2.Have you ever seen some mouse? Where?

Film                 street                     home

3.How is it? (Length, colour,…)

4.Do you know some house mouse?  what kind of food do they eat?
where do they live? how are they? 

 

 

 

 

 

5.Do you know anohter object that is called mouse?

 

Contextual Guessing

1.      Match photos with words

Nest                      tail                  pets

 to Climb             back feet       to  eat

 

Other activities

 

1.      Match photos with words

 

Pygmy mouse                       jumping mouse

 

House mouse             harvest mouse          dormouse

Sandra González, Irene del Pozo, Patricia Dominguez y Cristina Vieco



 

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draw  by Patricia Dominguez and write by  Patricia Dominguez and Cristina Vieco

"The very hungy catepillar" is a good book for children?

"The very hungry caterpillar” is a good book for children because you can work a lot of target of the curriculum, for example: children learn week´s days, some fruits, cycle of the butterfly. The pictures are fantastic for understandings the story, they are very funny because they seem colored by children. Also illustrations are very clear. I think book´s layout is perfect to motivate children because every food that appears in the story, has a small hole simulating the caterpillar has eaten a piece of different food.

Before listening

1. 1    Put in right order:

1. 2.      Mimic in the different stage of the cycle of the butterfly.

While listening

1.      Join Week´s days with the food

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

 2.      Third time you read the story you could make mistakes with the fruit that it appears and the children should correct you, for example:
 

On Monday he ate through one pear,

But he was still hungry

On Tuesday he ate through two watermelons,

But he was still hungry

……..

After listening

1.       Complete with their names, each child will stick his name where he likes the most.

1.   Draws your own butterfly.

2. Change the food appears each day, and asks to children, what food do they want to eat?

On Monday he ate through one (apple)_____,

But he was still hungry

On Tuesday he ate through two (pears)_____,

But he was still hungry

……..

Handa´s surprise is a good book for children?

 While reading

I choose this book in my opinion it is very funny although there are some words that are difficult, with the picture you can understand everything. I think that the vocabulary is very simple because with this tales you can teach fruits and colours, and you can use this book for teaching Africa. You can comparative Africa houses, costumes and food with Spain. You can also teach values because Handa gives Akeyo a present, they are friends. Besides it is a funny story because of the end; I think the end is the best of this tale. Of course the tale´s pictures are surprising and the layout is fantastic, because of you can be mysterious to the story, and you can play with children. I am sure the children will laugh a lot of when you tell story. For this purpose the tale is fantastic for children´s motivation.

In my opinion, on the one hand you can tell this story if the children are very young, but you could change the different sentences and you could use the same sentence for all the fruits. In the other hand, the children are older you can read it  but you always have to show pictures.

Pre-listening

• What actions can you see on the picture?
•   Have you ever seen this place in your planet?
• How many aliens can you see?
• How many heads can you see?

While listening

1. Children should do the same moves or actions that they see in the tale. For example, if they see an alien who is reading a newspaper, the children have to do the same.

2. You could describe one character and the children should guess it and they should also answer this quetions: who is it? and where is it?

After listening

              1.Draw the aliens that you like more.

 2.Put in order the different letters of the words that appear in the story

DHEAà___ ___ ___ ___

PPLUREà___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

MARà___ ___ ___

DREà___ ___ ___

Cristina Vieco y Sandra González

Zog is a good book for children?

Zog is a good tale for the children because Zog is a small dragon that goes to the school, and the children can identify with this character. In my opinion book´s vocabulary is a few difficult for children who are studying a second language.  Because of this I think it is better tell story and show the picture. On the other hand I think the tale is very funny for the children because the layout and the illustrations are fantastic and children may continue to the story; when you are telling children story, if they don´t understand anything they can know for the pictures. Then they will motivate.  So I think Zog is a tale for entertaining.  

Exercises about the Theories.

1. It has been said that the Grammar- Translation Method teaches students about the target language, but not how to use it. Explain the difference in your own words.

If you only translate the sentences that you want to use or you only learn the vocabulary in your own language. When you need say something all time you are thinking in your language so you tell to something you will be errors because it isn´t the same write what speak. And when you learn the vocabulary of the other language if you learn the means of the different words in the language that you are studying, it is better because you practice you new language and you will know to use these new words in different ways.

2. In the Grammar-Translation Method, grammar is treated deductively, in the Direct Method, grammar is treated inductively. Can you explain the difference between deductive and inductive treatments of grammar?

In deductive treatments of grammar the teacher explain all the things about the language and students don´t think different options. In inductive, the teacher don´t explain anything and the students learn by theirself. Deductive example: when the teacher shows a map and she says: “this is Italy” and she points to the country but if the teacher shows the map and she says: is Italy on the map? In this cause is Inductive Method.

3 Which of the following techniques follows from the principles of the Audio Lingual Method, and which ones don´t?

a.      The teacher asks beginning level students to write a composition about the system of transportation in their home countries. If they need a vocabulary word that they don´t know, they are told to look in a bilingual dictionary for a translation. (GRAMMAR TRANSLATION)

b.      Towards the end of the third week of the course, the teacher gives students a reading passage. The teacher asks the students to read the passage and to answers certain questions based upon it. The passage contains words and structures introduced during the first three weeks of the course.

c.       The teacher tells the students that they must add an `s` to the third person singular verbs in the present tense in English. She then gives the students a list of verbs and asks them to change the verbs into the third person singular present tense form.

Any answers are correct. Because in b when they read the passage, the students have to connect with their knowledge that they learn from the third week (this it is most connect with Audio Lingual). And in C you must say anything for being drills, and the teacher says something.

4. Asher believes that foreign language instruction can and should be modeled on native language acquisition. What are some characteristics of TPR that are similar to the way children acquire their native language?

·         Simple tense in imperative: is very use with children

·         To get a lot of input.

·         Learn with the actions and instructions

·         Imitation.

5. A lot of target language structures and vocabulary can be taught through the  imperative. Plan part of a TPR lesson in which the present continuous tense, or another structure in the target language, is introduced.

You want to teach there are verbs that in Spanish you say (tener) but in English you say (soy), like I am cold, I am hungry, I am hot, am thirsty, I am six years old.

For example: “I am cold” you wear on a scarf or you say “I am thirsty” you drink water. The children have to make the same to learn the sentences.



Sara Murillo, Belen Lopez-Robles y Cristina Vieco