lunes, 3 de febrero de 2014

Final work: Prezi

Today we are in the end of the subject, and we want to share the Prezi that we have used during our fnal exposition in group:

http://prezi.com/17tcfcgrquf8/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Bye bye! Now, we are on hollidays! : )

New Technologies in Primary: links and tools

The Impact of Technology on Primary Schools:

http://www.shersonmedia.com/grant/cv/items/papers/Technology_and_Primary_Schools.pdf

Merry Christmas work [NNTT]

We created these videos with the Magisto aplication (www.magisto.com).

http://www.magisto.com/video/K11NK10VCGEgWRpiCzE

Website bank

WEBSITE BANK

WEBSITE	DESCRIPTION
http://www.sundhagen.com/babbooks/	This website is guided to third course. It`s about short humorous stories with different themes.
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/onlinestory.htm	Here you can find several stories, which you can read or listen to them. Also there are some activities and games about the readings.
www.Bygosh.com	On this website you can see a wide range of classic and contemporary authors, their novels and short stories are for young children and teenagers.
http://www.gigglepoetry.com/	This website is about poetry, you can read a lot of different poems and do the activities.
http://www.storyit.com/	Here there are many stories, you can find phonics resources, some games such as puzzles, colour pictures…
http://www.education.com/reference/article/value-childrens-literature/	This is an article about the value of children`s literature. You can learn the specific benefits children that derive from reading and listening to books.
http://www.commonwealthwriters.org/	On this website, you can search for a wide range of commonwealth authors and texts, it`s a very useful site if you`re looking for multicultural novels and short stories.
http://www.poetry4kids.com/	Here you can find different kinds of poems for kids and learn different skills to create them.
http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/	This website is very useful for blind people and people who want to improve their listening skills as it includes audio and it can be listened to.
http://people.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/	On this website you can find more links about authors, the best books and other information.

domingo, 2 de febrero de 2014

Written communication: lesson notes

8th January

Reading

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Post-reading tasks-content based an approach.

Reading projects

Reading methods

Pre-recognizing (listening / speaking / writing / reading)

Out practise (listening / speaking / writing / reading)

Post (listening / speaking / writing / reading) à Competence à Receptive + Productive à Oral + Written

Lesson notes 10th January- 24th January

10th January 2014.

Oral communication.

Tough à dura.

Tough week à “Semana dura.”

CEFRLs. Naturals capacities/skills:

- Listening + speaking= Oral Communication.

- Reading + writing= Written Communication.

Oral/Communicative language activities:

- Receptionàlistening

-Production.

-Interaction.

- Mediationà pasiva/pasiva refleja. Ese acto de habla se convierte en una mitigación en sí misma a veces.

Written communication: links to work written communication

LINKS TO WORK AND PRACTISE WRITTEN COMMUNICATION	WHAT DO WE WORK?
http://childtopia.com/index.php?module=home&func=coce&newlang=eng	Read and answer
https://sites.google.com/site/fantasticprimary/aula-virtual/pets	Different activities about listening, speaking, reading and writing.

miércoles, 15 de enero de 2014

ORAL COMMUNICATION

DECEMBER LESSON NOTES

ORAL COMMUNICATIONà segmental UnitàSupra segmental unit àspeech actsà speech eventsà conversation

Speech Actà use with a functional meaning

· Order
· Greet
· Ask
· Give information, etc.

sábado, 11 de enero de 2014

Written communication: READING PROJECTS

16/12/2013

LESSON NOTES WRITTEN COMMUNICATION

- Post-reading tasks:

- Literary projects

- Content-based projects

Reading methods

jueves, 9 de enero de 2014

Written communication: lesson notes

2-12-2013

ASSESSING READING TASKS

Balancing our assessment

There are different questions as:

1. Literalà 20%, these questions are the easiest.

· Wh-questions à scanning the text.

Ex. What’s the name of the main character?

What did Anne say to John after their meeting?

How many hours a day is Anne at school?

2. Inferentialà 60%, these questions reflect understanding.

miércoles, 8 de enero de 2014

Conversation: request.

1º Speech Event: to ask for permission.

2º Speech Event: borrow the sharpener.

lunes, 23 de diciembre de 2013

Classic authors´ extracts and notes

CLASSIC AUTHORS

· MARK TWAIN

· CHARLES DICKENS

· LEWIS CARROLL

· ROALD DAHL

· OSCAR WILDE

· ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

· KATHERINE MANSFIELD

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Commonwealth authors´ extracts and notes

COMMONWEALTH AUTHORS

GRACE NICHOLS

· ETHEL SYBIL TURNER

· SUSANNA MOODIE´

Grace Nichols

Grace Nichols was born in Georgetown, Guyana, and lived in a small village on the country's coast until her family moved to the city when she was eight years old.She took a Diploma in Communications from the University of Guyana, and subsequently worked as a teacher (1967–70), as a journalist and in government information services, before she emigrated to the UK in 1977.Much of her poetry is characterised by Caribbean rhythms and culture, and influenced by Guyanese and Amerindian folklore.

Her first collection of poetry, I is a Long-Memoried Woman won the 1983 Commonwealth Poetry Prize. She has written several further books of poetry and a novel for adults, Whole of a Morning Sky, 1986. Her books for children include collections of short stories and poetry anthologies. Her latest work, of new and selected poems, is Startling the Flying Fish, 2006. Her poetry is featured in the AQA, WJEC (Welsh Joint Education Committee), and Edexcel English/English Literature GCSE anthologies - meaning that many GCSE students in the UK have studied her work. Her religion is Christianity after she was influenced by the UK's many religions and multi-cultural society.

She lives in Lewes, East Sussex, with her partner, the Guyanese poet John Agard.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

I is a Long-Memoried Woman, London: Karnak House, 1983
The Fat Black Woman's Poems, London: Virago Press, 1984
A Dangerous Knowing: Four Black Women Poets (Barbara Burford, Gabriela Pearse, Grace Nichols, Jackie Kay), London: Sheba, 1985
Whole of a Morning Sky (novel), London: Virago, 1986
Over the River, 1986
Hurricane Hits England, 1987
Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman (poems), 1989
Sunris (poems), London: Virago, 1996
Startling the Flying Fish, 2006
Picasso, I Want My Face Back, Bloodaxe Books, 2009
I Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems, Bloodaxe, 2010

For children

Trust You, Wriggly, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1981
Baby Fish and Other Stories from Village to Rain Forest, London: Nanny Books, 1983
A Wilful Daughter, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1983
Leslyn in London, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1984
The Discovery, London: Macmillan Education, 1986
Come On Into My Tropical Garden: Poems for Children, London: A. & C. Black, 1988
Can I Buy a Slice of Sky?: Poems from Black, Asian and American Indian Cultures (editor), Knight Books
Poetry Jump Up: An Anthology of Black Poetry, Harmondsworth: Puffin Books, 1989
For Forest

NORMAN ALFRED WILLIAM LINDSAY

Birth: 22 February 1879

Death: 21 November 1969

Literacy work: Lindsay wrote the children's classic The Magic Pudding published in 1918 and created a scandal when his novel Redheap (supposedly based on his hometown, Creswick) was banned due to censorship laws. Many of his novels have a frankness and vitality that matches his art.

Contemporary authors´extracts and notes

CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS

E.L.Konigsburg

Judy Blume

Lois Lowry

· FARAH GHUZNAVI

· STEPHENIE MEYER

ARAVIND ADIGA´

E. L. Konigsburg

Elaine Lobl Konigsburg (February 10, 1930 – April 19, 2013) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books and young adult fiction. She is one of five writers to win two Newbery Medals.

· Books

She wrote these novels:

- Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth (1967), illus. ELK — 1968 UK title, Jennifer, Hecate, Macbeth, and Me

- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1967), illus. ELK

- About the B'nai Bagels (1969), illus. ELK

- George (1970), illus. ELK — 1974 UK title, Benjamin Dickenson Carr and His (George)

- Altogether, One at a Time (1971), short story collection^[8]

- A Proud Taste for Scarlet and Miniver (1973), illus. ELK, historical novel featuring Eleanor of Aquitaine^[8]

- The Dragon in the Ghetto Caper (1974), illus. ELK

- The Second Mrs. Giaconda (1975), historical novel featuring Leonardo da Vinci — also published as The Second Mrs. Gioconda

- Father's Arcane Daughter (1976) — later published as My Father's Daughter^[^{citation needed}^]

- Throwing Shadows (1979), short story collection

- Journey to an 800 Number (1982) — 1983 UK title, Journey by First Class Camel

- Up from Jericho Tel (1986)

- Samuel Todd's Book of Great Colors (1990), picture book, illus. ELK

- Samuel Todd's Book of Great Inventions (1991), picture book, illus. ELK

- Amy Elizabeth Explores Bloomingdale's (1992), picture book, illus. ELK

- T-Backs, T-Shirts, COAT, and Suit (1993)

- TalkTalk: A Children's Book Author Speaks to Grown-ups (1998), nine lectures and speeches^[6]

- The View from Saturday (1996)

- Silent to the Bone (2000)

- The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place (2004)

- The Mysterious Edge of the Heroic World (2007)

The View from Saturday

The View from Saturday is a children's novel by E. L. Konigsburg, published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers in 1996. It won the 1997 Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature, the author's second Medal.

· Books summary:

Eva Marie Olinski returned after her accident left her paraplegic. She chooses four of her sixth-grade students(Ethan, Noah, Nadia,&Julian), who form a group they call "The Souls," to represent her class in The academic bowl competition. They defeat the other sixth-grade teams, then the seventh- and eighth-grade champions at Epiphany, and so on until they become New York state middle school champions. The children help the teacher live a happier life after her win. A child named Ham makes fun and makes life harder for her. Later the Souls stick out their arms and legs when Mrs. Olinski Stands up for herself when Ham and his follower Jared Lord harass the class. They stick out their limbs to show that she can stand up for herself.

Between chapters that feature the progress of the competition, each of the four students narrates one chapter related both to the development of The Souls and to a question in the state championship final. Noah Gershom recounts learning calligraphy and being best man for his grandfather's friend at Century Village in Florida. Nadia Diamondstein describes working to conserve sea turtles and meeting Ethan, also at Century Village. Ethan Potter tells of meeting Julian, a new boy in town, and attending his tea parties, where the four Souls became friends. Julian Singh explains being new at school and tells of handling a chance for revenge against one of the bullies — remarkably grounded in the part played by Nadia's dog in the school musical "Annie".

· Extract summary:

The extract talk about when the teacher was asked how she had selected the team for the competition. Main reason until the Bowl Day.

The students for the competition would call themselves ‘The Souls’.

· Conclusion:

I would recommend book because it talks about education. I must say, I love this topic.

On the other hand, I wouldn’t recommend it for Primary School students because the vocabulary is difficult to understand. I would prefer an adaption version.

JUDY BLUME

BIOGRAPHY

Judy Blume was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1938. She spent her childhood there, making up stories inside her head. She has spent her adult years in many places doing the same thing, only now she writes her stories down on paper. She has received many prizes and recognitions for her books.

lunes, 16 de diciembre de 2013

Written communication: Lesson notes

25/11/2013

WRITTEN COMMUNICATION

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-Reading what is it?

-Acquiring/learning to read.

-General and specific advantages of reading.

-A good and bad reader.

-Reading aloud is it reading?

-Communicative language activities of reading.

-Assessing reading evaluating and monitoring.

-Post- reading tasks: reading projects.

-Methods in teaching reading in L2.

How do we learn or “acquire” to read?

-Cognitive stage (psycholinguistic) related to listening and speaking: grapho-phonological relationships (it makes difficult to distinguish cognitive-strategies in the process of learning to read)

Written communication: Reading activities

Reading: active – mental skill that configurate one of our media to get information (it is a visual channel)

“Acquiring – learning reading” from a pshycolinguistic point of view reading is more a learning process (effect) than acquiring (cause). But from a practical point of view (because of the age our students start) we take advantage of the most benefits we can get from an early age. Even if it is a learning process we use many acquiring advantages.

How do we learn to read?

By definition reading is a mental-cognitive-active skill or ability. The cognitive stage of reading is very relevant and we have to be really careful to how to teach how to read to our kids. We have to make emphasis on the fact about how do we have to break down the paralization of the L1 strategies going to L2.

sábado, 14 de diciembre de 2013

Request Strategies Across Languages

Request Strategies Across Languages

By making a request, the speaker infringes on the recipient’s freedom from imposition. The recipient may feel that the request is an intrusion on his/her freedom of action or even a power play. As for the requester, s/he may hesitate to make requests for fear of exposing a need or out of fear of possibly making the recipient lose face (Blum-Kulka et al., 1989, p. 11). In this sense, requests are face-threatening to both the requester and the recipient. Since requests have the potential to be intrusive and demanding, there is a need for the requester to minimize the imposition involved in the request