The wild Animals listening

Date: Tuesday, September 20^th, 2016

Topic: Animals in the Jungle.

Framework: PDP

Skill: Listening.

Teachers’ name: Mariana Fagoaga

Maria Jose Lopez

This was the first class that my colleague Mariana and I taught to real children. It was very challenging because we had to work with listening skill, one of the most difficult one. Also, we had a problem with the CD player and what we did was read the text aloud to Ss could listen at it. Even thought, we could work together and do our best teaching those children. It was a nice experience working with them.
To start the lesson, we greeted the Ss. T Mariana was in charge of checking the attendance while I was giving a name tag to every student.

Next, the "teachers says" game was played by the Ss. Some flashcards were pasted in the board. The students stood up and T asked them to make a line. T explained Ss that when she mention an animal they have to run and touch the picture of the animal (e.g. “Teacher says touch the lion”). This was a nice activity for students to refresh what they learned in the previous lesson.

To present the vocabulary Ss were going to listen in the audio, T Mariana showed some flashcards to the Ss. She asked them if they already know the word, some students knew them, but others did not. After she pasted the flashcards I pasted the labels to clarify Ss the spelling of the word. T continued by explaining their meaning and giving real life examples with each word, so Ss could relate them in to real life situations. Then, we ordered the flashcards in a line and in the other corner of the board we pasted the labels.

T Mariana asked Ss to touch the picture of the word she was going to mention. All the students participated in this activity, and we could check their learning.

In the during listening, I gave the instructions to the Ss. I provided a worksheet and explained what Ss had to do. In the first part Ss were going to order the events of the story they were going to listen. I asked T Mariana to read the story for the kids. Ss worked in the first part, and then T read the story again, so Ss listened and checked their answers. Later, I asked them to do the second part where they had to color just the animals that were mentioned in the listening. T Mariana and I were monitoring Ss working. When they finished I checked their answers in a general way.

 In the post-, Ss played the fly swatter game. I divided the Ss into two teams. I gave the first person of the group a fly swatter. When I mentioned a word the students had to slap the correct flashcard with the fly swatter, and the students who did not do it correctly had to answer a question about the listening. Students took turns to participate in the activity.

Unluckily, we did not have enough time to do the wrap-up activity, so we thanked students to be in the class and they received a delicious snack. 

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