Here we go again.

The new blog is not working properly, so I am writing in this one again.

Yesterday most students were still on vacation so we had a special class with many games. First, students had to pick something from a bag while the rest of us had our eyes closed and hide it. Then the other student and the teacher had to guess what it was. We asked:

Is it a rubber?
Or
Is it a crayon?
Or
Is it a sharpener?

The student had to answer: Yes, it is or No, it isn´t.
When the student said Yes, it is, then we had to guess which one it was by asking questions like:

Is your crayon light blue?
Or
Is your  rubber square?
Or
Are your scissors pink?

We reviewed the names of clothes and then students played some games they enjoyed a lot. Here is the link: Teddy Dresser

Finally we played Hangman so students could practice a little spelling.

I hope to see you all next week

Homework

Choose 3 of the people in the picture and say what they are wearing. Example:

Number 1: She is wearing a white tracksuit (chandal) and blue trainers.

Today we learned a new question: 

What´s your address? 

Our little doll friend,  Jennifer Brown, said:
My address is 5, Alamo Street.

So you can see that in English, first we say the number: 5, and then the name of the street, last, we say the word street. 

I am glad those 4 children did their homework, but if you do have Internet at home and your child doesn´t usually do his/her homework ,please, insist that they do it and help them with it.

We are still learning to describe people and their faces in particular.

Taday children said the name of a friend and then said something about him or her. They said things like: Erika: Her hair is long and brown and her eyes are green.
Or

Jude: His hair is curly and his eyes are brown.

Have you noticed the word that is different if we talk about a boy or a girl?

Yes, you´re right. We use his when we are talking about a boy and her when we are talking about a girl.

Then students got together with a partner and said something about one of the faces in the book: his hair is curly and brown. Their partner had to guess which picture he/she was describing, saying It´s picture A or picture B.
Students drew a face. They worked with a partner and asked questions about their classmate´s drawing: Is it a boy or a girl? Is his hair blond? Are his eyes green? Then, they had to write on their notebook the description of their partner´s picture.

Finally, we watched a video and listened to a song called: What do you look like? Children may listened to it at home.

We reviewed the flash cards: adjectives to describe people. We played the game Around The World.

Homework

Look at the video and answer the questions:

1. What does Dima look like? What color is her hair? What color are her eyes?

2.What does Mish look like? What color is his hair? What does he wear on his nose?

3. What does Louise look like? What´s her hair like? Is she tall?

4. What does Jan look like? What color is her hair?

Well, this is an improvement: 4 students did their homework. It is getting better.

Yesterday we continued learning how to describe people´s faces, and not only, because we were also studying some adjectives to describe a person with hir or her body: Words like tall/short/, fat/thin, ugly/beautiful, strong/weak, old/young. 

We were reviewing the words introduced last week. For that we used flash cards. Each child was asked to identify  some of the cards, take them and them show them to their classmates while they said the word. 

Later students completed a listening exercise: they had the pictures of 6 characters and they had to recognize their description and identify each one of them. The descriptions were similar to this one:

     Suzy is very young.  She has a round face, wavy hair and a small nose. She is got a butterfly on the hair.

Later on we were playing the game Who is who. Students were divided into two teams. One individual student had to take the picture of a character. The teams had to ask questions to find out which character it was. 

They had to ask this type of questions:

Is it a man or a woman?

Does he/she wear glasses?

Has she/he got brown hair ( 0r blue eyes, a mustache, a beard, blond hair. etc.)

Is he bold?

By the way, What´s a man? A man is a big boy, like your dad or your grandpa.
And what´s a woman? A woman is a big girl, like your mom or your grandma.


Homework Match 8 of the descriptions with the pictures

Then choose one of the faces and  ask and answer the questions above.

For example: 
I choose nº 2. Here are the questions and answers:

Is it a man or a woman? It´s a man.
Does he wear glasses? No, he doesn´t.
Has he got brown hair. No, he hasn´t, he has blond hair.

(If you cannot print the worksheet, make a drawing of the boxes in the same position as in the worksheet.)

Last Monday we started a new unit. It´s about faces, parts of the face and how to describe different faces.

Only 2 students brought their homework: David and Sergio. Well Done! The other students should try to do it.

We studied words to talk about hair.
About the colour: brown, blond, red, dark
About the shape: straight, wavy, curly
About the size: long, short.

Words to talk about eyes: 
About the colour: brown, dark, blue, green, gray,

Words to talk about the face
 About its shape: round and long

Words to talk about the nose
About its size: big, small, long

Students completed a worksheet: they had to draw their own portrait and write some of their characteristics, like I´ve got blue eyes and a small nose. 
Some of the students have a round face, but they think they have a long face. 

We reviewed the topic on the rooms of a house. Students listened to a recording and had to draw a line to the room and the place in the room where the recording said they were. 

So we practiced place prepositions: on, under, behind, in, between.

Look at this pictures:

A

B

C

D

E

Homework Which of the pictures  is on, which is behind, which is between, which is next to, which is  under. 
Make the sentences. Example: The cat is next to the chair.

Hello,

What did we we learn today?

Hopefully you learned to ask:

Have you got....(3 legs, 2 arms, brown eyes, etc.)?

And to answer:

Yes, I´ve got (brown eyes, 2 arms).

Or

No, I haven´t.

We learned that this is:     

and this is 

Students reviewed the parts of the body and played a game. They had to get all the cards belonging to a family, like the Face Family, which was formed by the cards face, eyes, ears, noce and mouth. They were playing  in couples, except for Sergio, who was playing by himself. So they had to ask another player: Have you got the mouth? And the other players had to give them the mouth if they had it and say: Yes, I´ve got it, or if they hadn´t, say: No, I haven´t (Sergio) or No, we haven´t (everybody else).

We listened to a recording and students had to draw what they heard. They made the picture of a monster called Willow who had 4 small eyes and 2 big noses. Then, all the students pretended they were Willow and said what they were like. 

We also reviewed the alphabet and spelled our last names, including Jennifer, right?

Homework

Make your own monster. Give it a name. Then, write what the monster says:

My name is... 

I´ve got...    (2, 3, 4, 8 long/short/ ears?    1-6 small/big/long eyes?  .....mouth? )

My hair is 

Hello everybody!

Today, we started playing with numbers, but we also reviewed a question that all of you should know very well by now.

How old are you?

The answer can be either:

I am 8 years old.

Or just:

I am 8.

We´ll do it again next week. I hope you remember.

After  that we reviewed the parts of the body. And we also read the cards with the words. To practice, we played a memory game, same one than last week, but this time we had enough time to finish. In this game students need to match a picture with the right word card.

The teacher was making a demosntration to show how to talk about the position of things. Some students said they are learning this in school. 

We learned only 4 of those positions: behind, between, on and under

The teacher asked the students: Where is your neck? And they answered: under my head.

Or Where is your nose? It´s on the face.

In the second half of the lesson students folded a paper in six parts and made a drawing of a girl or a boy on the unfolded paper. They folded it back and only showed the head. They worked with a partner. The partner had to ask questions like: Is she tall? Is she thin? Has she got long arms? Has she got big feet? And they had to answer: Yes, she is or No, she isn´t, she is short. Yes she is, or No she isn´t, she is fat. Yes, she has, or No, she hasn´t, she has short arms. Yes, she has, or No, she hasn´t, she has small feet.

Then they had to show their classmates their complete drawing.

Homework

O yes, this time I´m not forgetting. 

Ask 3 questions about Homer:

Example: Has he got a big head? Yes, he has.

And 3 questions about Goofy:

Don´t forget, there is a special word in English for these:

What´s that word?

Yesterday we welcomed Laura, who is coming from another class. Everybody shook hands with her and said:

Nice to meet you, Laura.

We reviewed the alphabet and each student spelled his/her surname. That´s something we are working on: when we need to write a word and we don´t know how we must ask:

How do you spell...?

Students were given small pieces of paper and each one had to write 2 or 3 parts of the body. Then we practiced the words looking at the pictu4re cards and got familiar with the spelling of the words, by looking at the written words. 

Each student drew a figure and wrote 4 qualities, like: short arms, long neck, wide shoulders, big mouth.

They got together with a partner and asked the question: What´s your character like?

And this is how they had to answer:

If they wanted to say a quality of the character they had to say:

She is (tall, fat, small....) or

He is (tall, fat, small....) or

If the wanted to describe parts of the body they had to say: 

She has got ( short arms, a long neck, wide shoulders, a big mouth)

He has got ( short arms, a long neck, wide shoulders, a big mouth)

Notice that: when that part of the body is only one (mouth, neck, back) we must write the article a before. When there is more than one, when is plural,(legs, arms, hands, toes) we don´t use an article.

Last, we played a memory game: students had to discover and match picture cards with the corresponding words.