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

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.

TEACHING SPOT: ¿Cómo enseñar a los niños a escribir con el teclado?

1. Comenzar por el ratón

2. Escribir letras y palabras sueltas

3. Escribir oraciones y párrafos dictados

4. Redactar textos de manera libre con una temática dada

Para seguir practicando de manera divertida se pueden utilizar estos juegos interactivos:

Aprende a manejar el ratón y el teclado

Type of clusters

1^st Type:

A consonant cluster (sometimes known as a consonant blend) is a group of consonants that appear together in a word without any vowels between them.

• bl-
  - black
  - blood
• -st
  - best
  - first

2^nd Type

A second type  consonant cluster is a group of consonants that appear together in a word with vowels between them. These clusters are phonic and have no direct correlation written. Generally ә between them. Example:

• -rily---> /rәli/
  - Voluntarily---> -rәli/
  - Primary---> -rәli/
  - Secondary---> rәli/
• -able--->/әbl/

- confortable---> /k nfә.t.әbl/

Se comienza a trabajar los clusters de final de palabra a principio(de izquierda a derecha). Esto hace para no permitir al cerebro que busque significado semántico.

TEACHING SPOT: Catenative verbs

CATENATIVE VERBS

Catenative verbs are verbs followed directly by another verb in the infinitive, present participle, or base form. The adjective catenative from the verb catenate means "to connect, to link, to string together" and refers to the connecting of one verb to another.

1. -ING FORM:

• Verbs followed by -ING.
• After PHRASAL VERBS.
• After PREPOSITIONS.

2. TO FORM:

• Verbs followed by TO.
• After ADJECTIVES.

3. Verbs followed by BARE INFINITIVE (infinitive WITHOUT to):

• Verbs followed by BARE INFINITIVE.
• MODAL VERBS.
• AUXILIARY VERBS.

4. Verbs followed by -ING and TO (with NO DIFFERENCE of meaning):
 

5. Verbs followed by -ING and TO (with DIFFERENT meanings):

TEACHING THE PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH

TEACHING THE PRONUNCIATION OF ENGLISH

HIGH PRIORITIES

The certain basic characteristics of pronunciation which seem sufficiently specific to English to constitute a priority for the great majority of learners.

Pronunciación inglesa / Pronunciation of English

Consonantes y semivocales
símbolo	palabra	ejemplo	aproximación
/b/	bat	/bæt/	Sonido más explosivo que el de una b inicial española.
/d/	dig	/dIg/	Sonido más explosivo que el de una d inicial española.
/dʒ/	jam	/dʒæm/	Similar a una ch pero más cercano al sonido inicial de Giuseppe en italiano.
/f/	fit	/fɪt/	Como la f española.

NEW WAYS TO LEARN ENGLISH ONLINE

There are plenty of ways to learn English, in which we will focus is an online form in which you aren't the only person who learns in solitary. The system is as follows: you have to register in a website, where people can learn other languages ​​with others. In addition to learning a language online, you teach your own language to the person who is teaching you English (and you can even learn other languages, don't only english). It is a type of online and totally free video call with someone else in the world, both undertake to chat and to teach every man his native language in exchange for company, time and entertainment. Totally disinterested. In short, Are "social networks" in which learning exchange, specifically, language.

Teaching spot: Dictionary game

DICTIONARY

This game’s objective is learning new words. We just need a dictionary. The first player looks up in the dictionary an unknown word and pronounces it aloud. The player with the dictionary will take the roll of the "reader."

The other players , in pairs, write down in a piece of paper the hypothetical definition of this vocable (it doesn’t matter if there is no relationship with the real meaning, but the definition has to look real).
All the definitions are given to the "reader", who reads them aloud to be voted.
After a minute thinking about the definitions, each team vote the option which they think is the real one (they can’t vote their own definition).
Then we look for the most voted one.

The points will be given as follow:

- 5 points for the most voted definition if it is not the true one and 10 points for the "reader" because his chosen word wasn't rightly guessed.
- If the word has been successfully guessed, 10 points will be remove from the “reader’s” account.

The team that gets the highest score is the winner.

Some examples of words can be rack, crank, switch...

HOW TO READ ALOUD

Trabajo Previo

Lectura comprensiva
Preparación del texto
Corrección de fonemas aislados
Trascripción fonológica

TEACHING SPOT: Correction symbols

CORRECTION SYMBOLS

This method consists of marking the line where the mistake/error is and putting the symbols which describes what type of mistake/error is.

Teachers have to design a common “symbol table”. This method will be used by the teacher since the first correction (the early years of primary) so students get used to it.

With this methodology students think about their own compositions and correct the mistakes/errors to be right.

V -> Verbal tense X -> Remove/change a word M -> Missing words O -> Spelling ¿? -> Not understood/Change expression S-P -> Coordination subject and predicate =D -> Excellent =) -> Good =/ -> Think twice =( -> Ohh!

For example:

Hi Mary! Today I’ve been my first day of class in the college. At 8 o’clock I’ve haven my first subject. My teacher is Antonio Garcés. He was my teacher of the other subject, the pass year, so I knew him. He is a good teacher and he knows english so much. I’m sure that I will learn english with him. For this reason, I’ve chosen this major, because I want to learn english because I will be an English teacher in the future.     =)

Recursos básicos para empezar a enseñar inglés

DICCIONARIOS DE INGLÉS 

CAMBRIDGE	Diccionario online
OXFORD	Diccionario de inglés de Oxford
WORD REFERENCE	Diccionario Inglés-Español
ONE LOOK	Diccionario/Traductor
SPANISH DICTIONARY	Traductor palabras inglés/español
DICCIONARIO RICHMOND	Búsqueda en los diccionarios Richmond

Teaching spots

TEACHING SPOTS

1-Tom Clancy and black novel

 

        Tom Clancy se hizo famoso cuando Ronald Regan leyó su novela tras haber pasado su mujer, Nancy Regan, toda una noche sin para leerla de continuo. La novela, “Octubre rojo” (The Hunt for Red October), trata sobre la guerra entre EEUU y Rusia. Generó un cambio de tendencia continuando el legado de Edgar Alan Poe llamado “potpoiler” (tetera a presión, olla hirviendo).

 

 

American black novel	British black novel
-Globalizado, tramas de espionaje mundial                    -Organismos, entidades, mafias (weapons ,                        submarines, intelligence agencies…]	- Localizada en un pueblo o ciudad                 - Trama: Investigador privado en busca de asesino

 

A raíz de este cambio de tendencia, los nuevos videojuegos han adaptado obras literarias a  sus tramas para que haya una historia literaria rica y atractiva detrás de la acción.

 

2. TIPS FOR AN APPROPIATE READING.

·         Tone

·         Exaggeration

·         Pronunciation

·         Behave beautifully

·         Rhyme

 

 

A green apple... How to improve phonetics

1º Empezar con la pronunciación de una palabra, recomendable que sea un sustantivo (apple).

2º Ir añadiéndole otras palabras para ir formando gradualmente una oración.

3º Conforme se complica la actividad, se trabaja la pronunciación y el ritmo.

Ejemplo:

a - pple

an apple

is an apple

This is an apple

This is a green apple

Tom is eating a green apple