Food and drinks

FOOD AND DRINKS

I share with you an amazing class imparted by teachers Abigail and Ingrid. Activities, materials, strategies applied, made this class, a class enriched knowledge for students

Teachers started the class with a song, to do that they use a shaker, put students in a circle and asked students to sing and move their bodies each time with more energy, when students were asked to sing they were motivated because they know the song, and they have enough energy to spend doing kinesthetic activities which is great.

Then, teacher Ingrid, presented a secret box which contained materials known because was with the purpose of make a review of topic already studied, the box contained flashcards about different topics, she asked students one by one to pass in front to stick their hand to get a flashcard, then open it and said about what was the flashcard, Ingrid motivated students using expression like: very good job, great, excellent as a price to made a great job. I have noticed that they feel proud when the teachers use those expressions because they feel that they did a fantastic job.

She used a puppet to present the topic. She told students they were going to have an extra teacher his name TOTI, she took a flashcard and asked Toti do you know what is this?, then she motivated students to repeat after Toti, it was amazing because students enjoyed the way teacher use her tone voice, she first asked Toti how do you say? Or how do you spell? Then she told students to repeat what Toti was saying. I particularly enjoyed this activity, the way she manipulated the puppet because I think the purpose was to help students to internalize something new with someone who they could interact, and I could notice that she achieve the purpose because at the end they were able to repeat and point out right flashcards when they were asked to do it.

In the next activity teacher Ingrid had two posters on the wall, one that symbolized good food and the other bad food. Students were sitting closer to the posters, then Ingrid called one by one to take a piece of food from a box, say what was it, and put on the good or bad food, respectively, while each student put the food on the right poster, teacher asked them to use their finger up to represent good food, and down to represent bad food. While they were doing it, I could notice they know what is bad and good food for them.

Teacher Marcy used activities in which students had to put in practice what they had learned, so as a first practice she gave students a jigsaw puzzle to complete in pairs, and when they had completed she asked to said what they had on the puzzle, and if it was good of bad food using a palette with the finger up and down respectively, this activity was great because the puzzle was full color and they were able to complete and identify what kind of food they had on it.

In the next activity she gave them a plate, and a set of mini-flashcards, one side of the plate they had to put healthy food and the other side bad food. It was fantastic to see they understood so quickly and completed it by their own, at the end, I could appreciate all of them did it correctly, it led me to investigate, and noticed they capture images quickly and have a good memory to remember, this is because children have a photographic mind, pick something and record it, then when you return to see quickly recognize it, so it is really need the flashcards on the acquisition of a new language for children, since they go through those flashcards, they familiarizing, internalizing and remembering a second language

In the last two activities of team competition, in the first one they had to complete a filling in the blank vocabulary words, in the second they had a list of vocabulary food and they had to run and take the correct flashcard. I noticed they did an excellent job in those activities because they already knew the vocabulary so they just had to put in practice which they did without any problem.

Choosing good techniques, activities and good use of the material makes students internalize, remember and put into practice what they have learned in class to put in practice in production activities, which I could see in this class, students will able to do all the activities without any trouble, they could identify vocabulary, flashcards because they rapidly internalized. Ingrid and Abi excellent Job!