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I prepared this activity for my third year group since we were working with vocabulary related with clothes, materials and patterns.

As the final work was to make video with a haul of their newest clothes, I considered presenting them an example and in this sense they were aware of what they have to include in their videos.

This was the first lesson of the unit where the main vocabulary was presented. This is why, the lesson started with a brainstorming about clothes as an initial evaluation of the previous knowledge of the group. Then, this video was shown together with questions which helped them with its comprehension and as a way to introduce new vocabulary related with patterns and materials.

Once we finished, different pictures were presented to help them infer new words. The lesson finished with an activity in which they had to describe what the people were wearing in the pictures ordering the words presented in a box so as they could learn the order of adjectives when we have more than one together.

As homework, a Kahoot which summarized all the content seen during the lesson was assigned.

Next year, I consider that other example could be added as some of my students needed extra help

Time toast

Timetoast

I have just known this resource to practice my students' reading abilities.

This is what I planned an activity with my students from the 1^st year of CSE since in Unit 7 they were learning the past simple and they needed to know a little bit more about important women to have feminine references to be inspired.

Therefore, I formed groups of three students trying to make them according to their level and that everybody learns something new. Once the groups were formed I created  the activity in classroom providing them this link, https://www.womansday.com/life/g42642115/famous-women/ , so they could decide among 15 important women the one they wanted to learn more about. Once they decided, they had access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. There, they had to select the information to create the timeline with the most important events in this woman’s life.

I have already received two of the assignments and I am really happy with the results, although some of the students had problems to meet and do the assignment.

Next time, I consider I am going to employ class time and use the laptops available at high school to avoid this possible inconvenient.

Now, it is time to look for a co-evaluation sheet and that they tell me what they consider they have learnt with this assignment.

Any of you know a place where I can find evaluation sheets according to their level? Will appreciate it very much!

Reading is a must

 

Since I have memory, books have always been in my life. I am the eldest daughter of two avid readers and my parents’ house is full of books.

But my relationship with reading was not so perfect as it could seem. My father being a teacher made he taught me how to read the summer I was 4. I remember that as an awful experience because I was learning how to read while my sister and cousins were out playing or at the beach. Therefore, this provoked that I hated reading during a few years and that I only read when it was strictly necessary, that was for school.

However, my mum, eager to make me love books as she did, decided to try buying me whodunit detective books. I became fascinated because I was able to choose the path I wanted the plot to follow so I investigated every single path and wanted to learn always more.

Nowadays, I could say that reading is one of my favourite pastimes. I read novels, drama and even some poetry in Spanish normally written on paper. Before going to sleep as a means to relax is my favourite time, but this is also a trap as cannot tell the times I could not sleep until I finished a book.

I also read a great bunch of works in English but they are more related with news or scholar books on the Internet as they are more related with my job.