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The aim of this activity is to improve listening skills in our students. In this activity, we will hear a fragment of Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone audiobook and our students will have to fill de gaps with the different words they hear.  Apart from improving listening skills I want to encourage them to read this marvellous saga.  We can proceed like this: First step will be introducing the activity and explain what we are going to do.  Next, I will distribute the worksheet with the gap-filling activity to my students. Play the fragment of the audiobook, pausing it just to let them enough time to fill the gaps. Play the whole fragment again.  Play it a last time without pauses.  Correct the exercise all together.  Variations:  Hagrid's way of speaking can be hard for young learners. You can try to adapt the text.  If you are practicing this with young English learners, you can try to give them the words they are going to listen and let t...

My favourite animal  The aim of this activity is to help young learners to practice reading and writing skills by learning and writing about their favourite animal.  The materials needed will be:  A selection of pictures of different animals (you can get them from Google pictures , pinterest ...) Worksheets with prompts to help children write about their favourite animal Pencils and paper sheets.  In order to proceed:    I will start by showing them some pictures of books with different pictures of animals. Also, I will ask them which animal is their favourite and why. Once the children have chosen their favourite animal, I will give them the worksheet, so they can start writing.  Once the children have written about their favourite animal, I will ask them to red out what they have written encouraging them to use adjectives and practice their pronunciation.  After the activity, we could take the children's work to create a mural with different inf...

 Learning about programming with Scratch.  Programming is one of the most basic and important tasks of most of those known as professions of the future. Many workers, use to program in different programming languages without actually being engineers, programmers, or computer specialists.  That's why I decided to introduce this activity. At first sight, it can seem difficult and challenging, but in fact, Scratch uses a programming language divided by blocks, so children won't have to write any code line as in for example, python.  As it is said in the video, this program is used in ages between 8 and 16 years old, but it is also recommended for younger and older learners because it can develop some digital, logical, mathematical and other skills and key competences. Here's the video I'm talking about. While watching this video, our students can practice their listening and reading skills just by listening the video and reading its subtitles. After watching the full vi...

 Picture description game.

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