Pronunciation Workshop

First Certificate students have been attending a Pronunciation Workshop for two months.
Adriana Muñiz, a specialist in the field, gave students some pronunciation tips to help them improve their speaking skill.



ADRIANA, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE!!!!

"I think that the workshop that we had with Adriana was really very useful. She has taught us how to speak better and how to pronounce the words in their different uses. This was a different experience for me and I realise how important pronunciation is." Victoria

"I think that the workshop with Adriana was very useful because most of us speak with a Spanish tone, so with her help and her tips we could improve our pronunciation and also our tones. Now we are more carefull when reading and speaking and we try to do it with the best pronunciation." Anotnella

"I felt great in the workshop with Adriana. I think it helped us and we could improve our way of speaking. We learnt new words and a lot of things and now, we have a better idea of the intonation of sentences and questions." Eliana

"I think that the workshop we did with Adriana was really an interesting activity and helped us in many situations, for example, to "act" some dialogues really helped us to sound more natural when we have to express ourselves. We worked in groups all the time and it was really a good and interesting way of practising our speaking." Erica

"I felt really comfortable studying with Adriana, she is an excellent teacher. It was very useful for us to learn different tips for pronunciation and many other things we didn't know." Damaris

"For me the workshop was a really useful opportunity for us to improve our speaking because we could compare different intonations and the way we speak. She reminded me of the way British actresses speak." Juan Manuel

Young learners and their stories!

After reading "Lemons are not red", students created their own stories and assembled beautiful books to share with their friends.

Children enjoyed reading their stories aloud using voicethread in the class.

Would you like to listen to them?


CONGRATULATIONS!


CONGRATULATIONS!


CONGRATULATIONS!

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Introduce yourself!

Mind Mapping

The web 2.0 offers many free mind mapping tools that are really very useful for:

* Organizing Ideas
* Summarizing information;
* Taking Notes;
* Consolidating information from different research sources;
* Thinking through complex problems;
* Presenting information;
* Storing and recalling information.

Tone Buzan believes mind mapping techniques are a powerful thinking tool and in the video he explains why.




We have been using mind mapping tools with students to summarize different texts and increase and consolidate contextualized vocabulary.
In this opportunity we decided to use Bubbl.us as it proved to be a very easy tool to use and it helped students experienced collaborative online editing.
"Mapping provides a learning framework in which all the areas of language skill, speaking, listening, reading and writing, can be used in meaningful ways." Robert Fisher.

Reference: Robert Fisher, Teaching Children to Learn, Nelson Thornes Ltd 1995

Stories for young learners

I learnt about Lookybook reading Lissa Harrison's blog.
Lookbook is a great place to discover and share beautiful stories.
Young learners loved this story and they enjoyed the artwork!!!

Tip: Click on the eyeballs of the embed to view a larger version.

Students and their teacher Karina are now creating their own stories!!!

Recycling!!!

Young learners recycled old boxes and other cardboard packaging. They had great and imaginative ideas to bring something old and used back to life.