“LET’S SPEAK ENGLISH” PROJECTS
This year we have a new language
assistant, Nadia, who is a great support for teachers of English to
develop all the oral activities we do with groups of primary. Year 4,
5 and 6 students have been doing different activities based on verbal
communication, as the main aim is that the children can listen to
someone who speaks native English and can use this language to
communicate with teachers and their peers. As dealing with the
children’s emotions is one of the purposes the school has, we
thought that it would be a good idea to ask pupils to express an
emotion and write a sentence related to it, such as “I feel happy
when I am with my family”. The children really enjoyed the activity
and helped them to express their emotions in English. Below you will
see what they did.
With Year 5, Nadia proposed that the
children could do something related to her country, England, and
specifically London, the capital. The pupils were looking for
information on the Internet, books or even asking their parents or
relatives, as some of them had been there before. The result was that
they created some posters based on some information about the city of
London, such as landmarks, the weather, etc.
They really worked hard and tried to
learn the information, something that made the project really
interesting.
With Year 6, students did a project
about a TV programme. We were really surprised when we realized they
had worked really hard and had used their imagination to create the
Powerpoint or Prezi presentations, the posters, the videos and
performances.
We must say that
that the parents’ involvement in the different projects carried out
by year 4,5 and 6 students has been really helpful. They have spent a
long time helping their children to do their presentations and the
successful results wouldn’t have been possible without their
constant support.
