Learning english with songs. SENA Socorro

Here we were in our "English song festival" at SENA Socorro classroom with this wonderful team from         " Tecnico en ventas y servicios" We found this a very nice way to integrate the four skills, making the classroom atmosphere a less formal, where students feel confortable learning English. This is an excellent motivational strategy to increase the students' participation in activities that promote the use of this language. Let's watch the following video of this talented girl...

By Diana Hernández

GOOD ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICES VIDEO!

This project was carried out by apprentices of Técnico en manejo ambiental 686151 in Barichara. 
They were committed to this project from the very beginning of their english learning process. 
First,  they looked for Environmental vocabulary and made as well a   glosary of this vocaulary and its definitions.   
Second, They made oral presentations 
Third, They were split up into teams of 3 people and they  chose an environmental practice to work on.
Fourth,  They made their scripts and I helped them out with the pronunctiation.
Finally they recorded and edited the video and submitted a flyer. 

                                          You shouldn´t miss it!  

BY: V.A

Charala REVESTIMIENTO EN PINTURA ARQUITECTÓNICA

This wonderful people were well focused on learning their issues related to building and construction, besides basic topics such as introduction, greetings and routines.

These is a video of their final class project.
Hope you like it!

BERT

Watch a video here
CHARALA PROJECT DEC 2014

MOGOTES ATENCIÓN INTEGRAL A LA PRIMERA INFANCIA

This is the ATENCIÓN INTEGRAL A LA PRIMERA INFANCIA TEAM at MOGOTES,

Very dynamic students who put into practice their knowledge through games.  

These following images show just a short sample of all that this team did in a very short time!

Watch and enjoy!

Cepita ATENCIÓN INTEGRAL A LA PRIMERA INFANCIA Activities

Hey There..!!

This time we have our CEPITA, Santander students having a practice of many activities in the Classroom.
 They belong to  team and these are their first English lessons. They really make a big effort and look for a better English improvement. 
Enjoy this Images. 


BERT

P.U.P.P.E.T.S     S.H.O.W

Students from Técnico en Seguridad Ocupacional and Sistemas designed their own puppets to recreate different stories using the language studied in the classes, related to physical descriptions,weather and personal information. This show was really fun and appealing! The apprentices really enjoyed this project.

Posted by Candy Duarte
Photo by Nelson Gutierrez

physical appearance

Students from Técnico en Sistemas were learning parts of the body while describing physical appearance by this interactive activity where each student had to add a feature to the description.

First Integrated Guide

This activity was addressed to apprentices from group 813277 CONTABILIDAD Y FINANZAS. Initially they were taught about greeting in English, meeting each other for the first time, and common expression we use to know more about people. On the other hand, most of the topics and activities were integrated with what apprentices were studying on their technical subjects.  So they were taught about accountancy phrases and words which helps them develop vocabulary, pronunciation and reading comprehension skills regarding their training area. 

Cheers!

What a nice day! Students of level 8 showed up their final projects!

They created and edited a video from topics that they enjoy doing. In groups, they wrote the line, then we made some corrections and finally, we kept focus on pronunciation and intonation.  We edited on different programs like Sony Vegas, Adobe Premier etc. In the Picture, we were celebrating with a nice Orange wine. This was one of the projects from the group.

Thanks everybody!

By Lily Rojas

FREEZE!!

They were.............????
In this activity students were acting different situations and the opposing team had to guess what they were doing .  At the shout of  FREEZE they stopped, and the results were a little bizarre, making guessing really tricky. We practiced grammar and have fun which is always a nice combination. D.C

Role-play activity!

Students of "gestion empresarial" 598428 were eager to show their customer service skills in certain roles like attending a coffee shop, attending a restaurant, or even like a professional welder. They understood that being a client is not easy and that attending a client is even harder, specially if it is in english.
They had fun and learnt something useful for their professional careers.

Presentation of Memorable Moments

  

In this product-activity apprentices from different SENA programs shared with their classmates a meaningful celebration they had experienced. They chose some pictures from that special moment in their life and narrated the chief events of the celebration in order to depict the full scene. This activity allowed apprentices, first, to recapitulate their knowledge about grammar topics and vocabulary related to tell ideas from the past. Second, it was helpful to make apprentices realize how competent in the foreign language they had become, i.e. they were good enough to convey own stories through another language. 

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Personal Learning Environment in order to learn English idioms

A Personal Learning Environment  (PLE) called as Symbaloo.EDU was used by Event planning and Programing students. This group was given 24 idioms split into topics for each day. They had to research over the internet and organized the information collected on their PLE. After the assignment was completed, they created a Website.

 

The website idioms project was the final part of the “competencia producir textos en Ingles de forma escrita y oral”. The purpose of this assignment was to two-fold, first to use the information collected through the last 4 weeks in their Personal Learning Environment SymbaloEDU, about idioms and make them to relate them with images and meaning. Second introduce a Web 2.0 tool new that they could use for their personal lives, work and most importantly their studies.

They had to create a website using Wix where they followed the assignment given. The Website included the following:

·         The students were directed to add 10 to15 idioms.

·         Added the idioms chosen with their meaning in Spanish.

·         Added a clear description in English of the idioms meaning.  

·         An image was uploaded to relate each idiom with its meaning.

After all the students published their website and added the link in their SymbalooEDU account. In order to end their project, the students made a video using Camtasia Studio software to explain their feelings about the process and which idioms they like/dislike the most and why.

Click on links below to see some examples of their websites.
http://aparra991.wix.com/adriana-idioms
http://solivago.wix.com/sonia-idiom