LEARNING PARTS OF THE BODY

Apprentices from Level 3 did this activity to learn about the parts of the body. On a figure on the floor each student had to place the part of the body written on the card they selected. The main purpose of this activity was to adquire new vocabulary while focusing on pronunciation.

TRUE OR FALSE? YOU GUESS IT

Level 6 students playing a game called true or false, where they have to talk about their experiences (they might be true or false) using the present perfect, right after each estudent has talked the students from the other group have to say whether they think that experience was real or not. The number of right guessings is the number of points they get.

Learning daily acivities while having fun!

Here we find a picture of level 4 based in San Juan de Dios in which apprentices were asking each other questions in order to remember the vocabulary about the daily routine. The idea of this warm-up activity was to review the pronunciation of different expressions we use to describe our daily activities. Then apprentices were supposed to have some practice of these phrases through a game. The classroom was divided into two groups and each was given a set of cards with pictures of the daily routine; while the English teacher was saying the word “hot” several times they had to pass each other a balloon full of water. As soon as their teacher said “POTATO” the student holding this balloon was supposed to run fast and get a card from a bag. They had to act out what was on this in order to have their classmates guess the English phrase. The more they guessed the merrier to win the game.

Chu chu chu…!

Students of Primera Infancia (Onzaga) a group around 20 women were doing a speaking exercise showing us some toys that they use to play with their kids. We learnt colors, geometric forms, numbers, fruits, & animals. We played & sang some song related to these subjects. Also, the students learnt about prepositions of place to locate those toys. Finally, we played like kids between us practicing pronunciation. By Lily R.

The game that ties you up in knots.

                                  


Twister is a game of physical skill .here students from the accounting program from Socorro are playing on a large plastic mat that is spread on the floor. The mat has four rows of large colored circles on it with a different color in each row: red, yellow, blue and green. A spinner is attached to a square board and is used to determine where the player has to put their hand or foot. The spinner is divided into four labeled sections: right foot, left foot, right hand and left hand. Each of those four sections is divided into the four colors (red, yellow, blue and green). After spinning, the combination is called (for example: "right hand yellow") and the students or players must move their matching hand or foot to a circle of the correct color. In a two-player game, no two people can have a hand or foot on the same circle; the rules are different for more players. Due to the scarcity of colored circles, players will often be required to put themselves in unlikely or precarious positions, eventually causing someone to fall. A person is eliminated when they fall or when their elbow or knee touches the mat. There is no limit to how many can play at once, but more than four is a tight fit. Here the students are trying not to be out of the game and survive. The game is awesome and fun.

Don't be afraid of Chinese whispers!

Most of the students are always encouraging themselves to improve their listening and speaking skills. A very good way to do so is through this kind of activities where you see the importance of listening and pronouncing properly. Each groups was composed by 7 students and they were positioned in sort of a queue, the first student had to listen to a sentence given by the instructor and then he had to repeat the same sentence to the second student, then the second to the third and so on. The loser group had to pay a penalty decided by the other group. We had tons of fun and learnt even more!