Project

Ilazki Zabaleta, Terese Larrañaga, Nerea Zubia and Aitziber Rodriguez

Project

THE CONTEXT:

Our project will take place in Luzaro, a school which situated in Deba

(Gipuzkoa). Deba is a small town which has a public school and the Basque is the

principle language. In this school are children from 3 to 12 years old. The family for our

school has a medium socioeconomic status.

We decided that the children of our project will be 5 years old. But they are

going to begin learning English or do the first approximation with English with 2 years.

We think that this age is appropriate because, is better to start early as they have

some skills that they haven’t when they are older. Also, with 2 years it could be

recommendable that they heart English and be exposure with this language.

In our class, we will work with 15 pupils who have 5 years old, but one child is

from Sahara since one year. He is Rashid, Rashid is 5 years old and he is adopted. Is

black and he has got black eyes, and he has a very expressive face. He is shy and he

doesn’t understand very much in English. He speaks Basque with his adoptive parents

and in Spanish with his friends. During English classes, he doesn’t understand anything,

but when he understands something he ignores everything that English teacher say.

The English teacher is not the tutor. We are going to do 3 classes for week of

thirty minutes each class.

METHODOLOGY:

Our main objective is that children could express their self, so that we are going

to work with basic words and ideas about their routines.

Our project has got 4 weeks. We will learn one topic each week, but when we

learn a new topic we are going to review the things that we had seen last week. With

this methodology we can remember all the topics.

PRINCIPLES:

- Cooperation methodology.

- Children must participate.

- Listen to the ideas for the children.

- Use lessons to have a good time.

- We use real context.

- Don´t use books and don´t teach with grammar.

- Speaking practice and use body language.

ACTIVITIES PRINCIPLES:

- Change activity every 5-10 minutes not to get bored.

- Mixing excitable games with quiet ones.

- Make lessons playful and full of physical movement.

- Avoid competition.

- Encourage and support young learns.

- Use song and puppets to motivate and learn vocabulary.

- Concentrate also on speaking practice with a single words and short phrases.

- Teacher could be repeated in English all that children said in Basque.

- Speak slowly and clearly so that children can understand well.

TOPICS:

First, we are going to practice places they usually go (pool, school,

supermarket, doctor, playground…). Secondly, we are going to teach family (parents,

grandparents, sisters, brothers). Thirstily, we are going to teach how they can express

their feelings (boring, happy, sad, scared). At this way the children will be motivated to

speak about their routines.

1 WEEK

In the first week, we are going to start learning the names of the places like park, pool,

library, supermarket, doctor…

At the beginning of English classes, we are going to sing a Hello song. It is going to be a

routing because all the days we are going to start the lesson with it.

1. class

To teach Hello song, first we are going to put the song and children have to listen it,

then we are going to put the song one more time and children have to repeat it.

Hello song

Hello, hello, hello

Hello, hello, hello,

Hello, hello, hello

Hello, how are you?

Hello, hello, hello

Hello, hello, hello,

Hello, hello, hello

Hello, I´m fun.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdukBVPk8Jw

Video about the places

Then, we are going to see a video about town vocabulary. In the video we will see one

by one the places of the town and we are going to say the name and children have to

repeat. Here is the video that we are going to use to this activity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LULzOE1IVYk

Painting

Children should paint the different sites of their town, and they must draw below the

name of the place. The example will be on the board to children copy.



Learn word (places)

After that, we will do learn words activity. With this

activity we want to children can learn the names

that are appear in the video. To do that we will have

a picture where there appear the places of the town

that we have seen in the video and with our finger

we are going to indicate the places and say the

name. Children have to see the picture and repeat

the name. We are going to use the easiest.

Fishing

When we finish learn words activity, we are going to play a game to revise the things

that we learned.

We are going to put a lot of piece of papers on the floor. These papers would have

different pictures about the topic we are learning (places). Also, each picture has a

paperclip to fishing with a cane. During the activity, children have to fishing one

picture and say the name. We are going to use the easiest and the place they usually

visited. Then, the children have to paint the pictures.

Yes or no

The teacher is going to ask questions to the children and they must answer yes or no,

so they should understand the questions.

Do you buy milk on the supermarket?

Can you play football in the park?

Do you buy cookies at the park?

Can you swim in the pool?

…

Good-bye song

To finish the class, we are going to sing Good-bye song. It is the song that we chose:

Good bye , Good bye

Good bye, Good bye

See you, See you

See you, See you

Thank you, Thank you

Thank you, Thank you

Good bye, See you, Thank you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tCSl_2ykgs

2. class

To start the second day, like the last day, we are going to sing Hello song.

Hello song


Video about the places

Then, we are going to see a video about town vocabulary. In the video we will see one

by one the places of the town and we are going to say the name and children have to

repeat. Here is the video that we are going to use to this activity.




Short Story

Then, we are going to tell a story about the places, using the vocabulary that we learn

last day.

I am live in Osio. This is my town, and there are some places in my town. I usually

visited all the places but I like go to the pool.

I am going to visit the doctor because I have a bellyache. The doctor is very nice but I

don’t like go to visit him. I need play with my friends in the pool.


Meanwhile, Sara and Jon are playing in the pool, they are very happy . Everyone wants

to be like them and their invited us, but we can’t go yet.

Pablo is buying apples in the supermarket with his mother, and then, he is going to

pool too.

And Sam, is in the school, and he is very happy, but he wants to go to the pool.

My friends and I, are impatient to go Sara and Jon’s pool at the afternoon, we always

have a good time there.

When we already finished all the task, we met the other friends at the pool, and we

have had a very good time.

Map

After listen this story children should paint the map of their town. They are going to

paint the different places. Then they must put the name of the places below. The

teacher has got the model in the blackboard.

Finding couple

Then, we are going to do finding couple game. To play this game, we are going to put

on the floor different pictures and the children have to find the same pictures doing

couples. To do this game children have to get up one by one to see what it is behind

the picture and then try to find its partner. If he or she doesn´t find the couple, has to

sit in her or his site and pass the turn for the other partner.

“Simon says…”

The last game is going to be Simon says. Teacher is going to say: “Simon says…” and

then she/he is going to say the word she/he want to children learn. For example:

“Simon says point the finger in the school” and children have to put the finger in the

picture of school. To do this game, we are going to do 3 groups, and every group is

going to have one picture.

Good-bye song

To finish the class, we are going to sing Good-bye song.


3. class

Hello song

We are going to sing Hello song like every day.


Repeat me

After sing a song, teacher shows pictures of each site. For example the supermarket,

and she say to the children: this is a supermarket, and they must repeat. Then, she

does the same with all photos. Thereby, they are going to learn the places names bit

by bit.

Where is POPI?

We want to children would be able to answer next questions: Where did you go at the

weekend? With whom? And how did you feel?

So that, we are going to teach the structures to them in order that they can answer to

the questions.

To learn the places we are going to show the pictures for different places and ask to

the children: where is Poppy?



(In the supermarket)

(In the pool)

(in the park)

(visit the doctor)

(In the school)

Finding couple

Then, we are going to do finding couple game. To play this game, we are going to put

on the floor different pictures and the children have to find the same pictures doing

couples. To do this game children have to get up one by one to see what it is behind

the picture and then try to find its partner. If he or she doesn´t find the couple, has to

sit in her or his site and pass the turn for the other partner.

“Simon says…”

The last game is going to be Simon says.

Mural

To value children learn, we are going to do a big mural. In this big paper, the children

must paint the places we study this week, and below they must put the name of them.

Then we are going to put the mural on the wall of the class.

Good-bye song



2 WEEK:

In the second week, we are going to start learning the names of the family members

like father, mother, brother, sister and grandparents.

1.class:

To start the class, like in the first week, we are going to sing the Hello song.

Hello song


Video about family members

Then, we are going to see a video about family members. In the video we will see one

by one family member and we are going to say the name and children have to repeat.

Here is the video that we are going to use to this activity. We are going to see the

video two more times. So that children can repeat the words again and again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGqOUwh6V-A



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGqOUwh6V-A

Learn words

After that, we will do learn words activity.

With this activity we want to children can

learn the names that are appear in the

video. To do that we will have a picture

where there appear the members of the

family that we have seen in the video and

with our finger we are going to indicate the

family member and say the name. Children

have to see the picture and repeat the

name.

Fishing game

When we finish learn words activity, we are going to do a game to revise the things

that we learned.


different pictures about the topic we are learning (family). Also, each picture has a


picture and say the name.

Sing a song

Before the good-bye song, we are going to teach one song about family. The song calls

family fingers. To teach the song, firstly we are going to put the song in order to

children could listen to the song and then, we are going to sing without the song. After

that, we are going to put the song one more time and try to sing at the same time with

the singer. Here is the song that we are going to use.

Daddy finger, daddy finger, where are you? Here I am, here I am. How do you do?

Mommy finger, Mommy finger, where are you?

Here I am, here I am. How do you do?

Brother finger, Brother finger, where are you? Here I am, here I am. How do you do?

Sister finger, Sister finger, where are you?

Here I am, here I am. How do you do?

Baby finger, Baby finger, where are you? Here I am, here I am. How do you do?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjFcrv6Lfx8

Playing Bingo (we take this from children education blog)

As we want children to practice the vocabulary they have already learnt, teacher is

going to show them a family bingo. In each bingo-card are being 4 different members

of family, teacher is having some cards with the same pictures than the bingo cards.

When the teacher shows and names the card, children who have that card will have to

say: “I have it.”. And when they don’t have the picture shown, they will have to say: “I

don´t have it”. When children have a family member on their own bingo-card, they will

put a macaroni on it, and when a child has the four macaroni on the pictures, he or she

will say bingo.

Good bye-song

To finish the class, we are going to sing Good-bye song. It is the song that we chose:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjFcrv6Lfx8


2. class:

Hello song

To start the class, we are going to sing the Hello song.

Short story

Then, we are going to tell a story about the family, using the vocabulary that we learn

the last day.

Nazam is reading a book in his bed. He can´t read because he doesn´t know.

So he calls his mother.

-Mom! Mom! Come here please. - And Nazam´s mother goes. Then Nazam said:

- Can you read me a book please?- And Nathams mother reads a book for Nazam.

But, Nazam can´t heard anything because his sister is playing the piano.

Also, his grandmother can´t sleep because of the music.

So, Nazam’s parents buy him a beautiful book that has only images.

And because of that, Nazam is very happy!

Finding couple

The next activity is going to be finding the couple. To do the activity we would divide

the class in two groups. One group is going to draw pictures for our game and the

other group is going to start playing with pictures that have already done. In soil of the

classroom there are going to be same pictures prone and children have to find the

couple for each picture. To do this children have to get up one by one to see what it is

behind the picture and then try to find its partner. If he or she doesn´t find the couple,

have to sit in her or his site and pass the turn for the other partner.

“Simon says…”



“Simon says point the finger to the mother” and children have to put the finger in the

picture of mother. To do this game, we are going to do 3 groups, and every group is


Sing a song

After that, we are going to sing the topic song “ family fingers”.

The picture of our family (we take this from children education blog)

Teacher will show children a picture of her family and she is going to explain this picture: “she is my mom, he is my dad…” pointing her mom and her dad; then, each child is going to take her or his family picture and then she or he is going to explain the picture to the other classmates. Children are going to use the same structure as teacher used before “she is…, he is…”, and children are going to point the picture while they are explaining it.

Good-bye song

And too finally, we are going to sing good bye song.

3.class:

Hello song

To start the class, we are going to sing the Hello song.

Where is Poppy and with whom?

We want to children would be able to answer next questions: Where did you go in



the questions.

To review the places that we learned last week, we are going to show the pictures for

different places and ask to the children: where is Poppy?

And then, we are going to do the same, but in this case we are going to show them the

pictures of the Poppy’s family.

Poppy mother and father

Grandmother, sister and brother Grandparents

“Simon says…”



“Simon says point the finger to the mother” and children have to put the finger in the

picture of mother. To do this game, we are going to do 3 groups, and every group is


Drawing our family (we take this from children education blog)

Each student is going to draw a picture of his/her family. When they finish their

picture, they have to write belong to each person who is he or she (mommy, daddy,

sister...). Then, they have to show to their classmates their family and explain who

those that appear there are.

Good bye song

And too finally, we are going to sing goodbye song.

3. WEEK

In the third week, we are going to learn names of feelings like happy, sad, bored and

scared.

1. class:

To start the class like other weeks, we are going to sing a Hello song.

Hello song


Video

Then we are going to see a video to learn different feelings. In this video, they can see

and relate faces with feelings. Next, we repeat all feelings with children. Here is the

video that we are going to use to this activity.

In the video we can see a lot of emotions, but we are going to select some emotions to

learn in class.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEk48QQSPo4

Learn word (feelings)

After that, we will do learn words activity. With this activity we want to children can

learn the names that are appear in the video. To do that we will have different pictures

where there appear the different faces with different emotions. The teacher is going to


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEk48QQSPo4

show every picture one by one saying this emotion and child have to repeat it. Then,

each child would have one picture and they have to say what the picture emotion is.

Fishing

When we finish learn words activity, we are going to do a game to revise the things

that we learned.


different pictures about the topic we are learning (feelings). Also, each picture has a


picture and say the name. In this activity, we use the same pictures that we used in the

last activity.

Mimic

In the first time that we play a mimic, the teacher say a feeling like “Now you are

happy” and children have to change their face and smile. Next, one child of the class

say a sentences that before said the teacher and the other children have to change

their face as before.

Sing a song

Before good bye song, we listen and repeat one song to learn feelings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsISd1AMNYU


Good-bye song


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcws7UWWDEs

2 .class:


Hello song


Find the couple

The next activity is going to be finding the couple. To do the activity we would divide

the class in two groups. One group is going to draw pictures for ours game and the

other group is going to start playing with pictures that have already done. In soil of the

classroom there are going to be same pictures prone and children have to find the

couple for each picture. To do this children have to get up one by one to see what it is

behind the picture and then try to find its partner. If he or she doesn´t find the couple,

have to sit in her or his site and pass the turn for the other partner.

Simon says


then she/he is going to say the word

she/he want to children learn. For

example: “Simon says point the finger to

the happy face” and children have to

put the finger in the picture of mother.

To do this game, we are going to do 3

groups, and every group is going to have

one picture.



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Sing a song

Before good bye song, we listen and repeat one song to learn feelings.


Mimic

In this time, we are going to play a mimic but the otherwise. One child is going to take

a picture and show it to the others but he or she wouldn´t see it. The classmates

changed their faces according to what they see in the picture and child will have to

guess her or his feeling like “I am bored”.

Good-bye song



3.class:


Hello song


Where is POPI? With whom and how Poppy feel?

We want to children would be able to answer next questions: Where did you go in



the questions.

To review the places that we learned last week, we are going to show the pictures for

different places and ask to the children: where is Poppy?

Then, to review the family, we are going to show the pictures of the Poppy’s family,

and ask to the children: With who is Poppy?




To finish, we are going to show the pictures of the Poppy´s face, and ask to the

children: who did he feel?

Simon says

The last game is going to be Simon says.

Teacher is going to say: “Simon says…” and

then she/he is going to say the word she/he

want to children learn. For example: “Simon

says point the finger to the happy face” and

children have to put the finger in the picture

of mother. To do this game, we are going to

do 3 groups, and every group is going to

have one picture.

Mimic

In this time, the game will be more complicate. One of the class is going to tell to the

ear a feeling to the other of the class. And he or she is going to change their face in

order to the classmates guess the feeling using sentences like “You are bored”.

Run-run

There are pictures around the class about words that we learned this week. In this

exercise the teacher will say one sentence whit one word that we learn, and children

have to run and touch the picture that correspond.

Sing a song

Before that finish the class with good bye song, we listen and repeat one song to learn

feelings.


Good-bye song





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4. WEEK

This week will be the last of our project, so we will practice everything that we

have learned in the previous weeks. We will play to the same games and sing the same

songs, but now with all words and sentences together. We will put in practice the

contents of each topic: places, members of family and feelings; and we will relate

words of ones topics to others by games and songs.

For this week, our main objective will be that children know answer to these

three questions:

- Where did you go at the weekend?

- With whom?

- How did you feel?

1.class:

Hello song.

Fishing

We will play “fishing” like we have done in the previous weeks, but now with cards

which pictures will be all the topics, that is to say, with places, family members and

feelings. The children will have to raise the cards and say what place, what members of

the family and what feelings appear in each of them.

For example, in one card will appear grandma and grandpa at house very smiling, so

the child who has raised the card, it will have to say: “Grandma and grandpa are in a

house and they are happy”.

Simon says

We will play “Simon says” like we have done in the previous weeks, but now with all

the topics. There will be places and members of family pictures around the class

(playground, mountain, house, supermarket, fathers, mother, brother, sister,

grandparents) and also, now Simon can says: “feel scared!” so, they will have to put

scary face.

Sing a songs

We will sing all the songs that we have learn in the previous weeks. First, “family

fingers”, and then, “felling song”. At this way, we will remember the key words that we

learn at each week, to be able to practice during this week.

Run-run

There are pictures around the class about words that we learned in previous weeks. In

this exercise the teacher will say one sentence whit one word that we learn, and

children have to run and touch the picture that correspond. For example:

Teacher: “I am in… the supermarket!”, so the children have to run very fast and

supermarket´s picture.

Teacher: “I am… scared!!” and the children will run to touch that picture.

“Good bye” song.

Too finally, we are going to sing good bye song.

2. class:

Hello song

Story

We will tell a story in where will appear the contents that we have see previously. At

this way, children could relate places with members of family and with feelings, so we

will have to remark that’s words. Also, the pictures which we will show, they will be

very important to learn words, to relate theirs with images and to understand the

story.

Little Lily

Lily is a little and funny girl. She has many friends and she likes play with

them at the playground. Also, she has a dad, mum and little brother and she loves

make a chocolate cakes whit them. She is very happy…

But sometimes, she has to go to the school. And she hates it! She feels very

bored at school, so she don´t like it.

One day, Llily didn´t go to the school, so she said to her mum that she feel hill…

- Oooh.. -sais Lily´s mum- you can´t go to the school! You must to be at home, Lily.

At first she felt very-very happy to stay at home, but when she´s parents go out,

she felt very bored. Suddenly she listened some noises and she felt very scared. Lily

was alone and she didn´t like it. When Lily´s mum and dad came back home, she

said:

- Mum! Dad! Don´t let me alone never! I like school and I go there every days!

THE END

Questions about story

After we have told the story, we will do questions about it, like for example: “Where

she has gone?”, “With whom?”, “How has she felt?”. Children will have to answer

these questions. If they answer with one word (school, house, playground) we will say

all the sentence correctly: “She goes to the playground, she goes with her friends and

she feels very happy “. We well say that slowly and remarking all the words, then, we

will ask him to repeat with us, and we will help them:

- How has she felt?

- Happy!

- Yes! Very well: she feels very happy! Come on, repeat with me: she feels very happy!

- She feels very happy! - all together

- Very well!! Congratulations!

Finding couple

We will play this game like we have done in the previous weeks, but now with cards

which pictures will be all the topics. The cards will be pictures of places (mountain,

house, playground, supermarket), members of family (father, mother, brother, sister,

grandparents, friends) or feels (happy, sad, bored, scared). The children will have to

raise the cards one by one to find the same card, while they say what they see in the

picture.

Run-run

We will play run-run game at the same way that we played the last day, but now, one

child have to say the sentence rather than the teacher, and the rest of the class have

to run and touch. At this way, they practice how to say the sentences that we want to

learn.


3.class:

“Hello hello” song.

Questions: In this activity, we will do questions to all children to make a practical

dialog. We will do questions one by one and they have to answer as they know. For

example:

- Hello Antxon, how are you today?

- Fine.

- Yes? Fine? Ooh very well… you are fine today. I´m fine too. And you Ane, how are you

today?

- I´m fine.

- Ok, very well! You are fine too. And what you did yesterday Maddi?

- I went to the… eeh… with mum and dad…

- With mum and dad? Ooh.. very well, and where you went, Maddi? Where? To the

supermarket…

- No… To the playground.

- Very well Maddi, you went to the playground. Okey… And you, Mikel? Can you tell us

what you did the last weekend, do you remember it? Come on, we will help you…

- Last weekend, I went to the… to the mountain with my friends.

- Very-very well Mikel, and how did you feel?

- I feel very happy… and sad..

- Sad? Ooh… why Mikel? Why did you feel sad?

- My dad is not at the mountain..

- Oooh… you dad wasn´t in the mountain.. he doesn´t go whit you?

- No… he doesn´t go whit me… he was at home…he was bad…

- Ooh.. he was hill… okey Mikel very good.

- …

Run-run

We will play run-run game at the same way that we played the last day, but now, one

child have to say the sentence rather than the teacher, and the rest of the class have

to run and touch. At this way, they practice how to say the sentences that we want to

learn.

“What I have in the coconut?” To play this game we will need different cards with

pictures of places, members of family and feelings, like which we have used previously

at memory play, but now all topics together, at the same card, for example: friends at

home bored.

Every child will have one card in the forehead, but they couldn´t see the own one, only

the others cards. So, they have to know what they have in the forehead doing

questions to the others, for example:

- (friends at home bored) I´m in the mountain? - asks Jon.

- NO - answer the rest together.

- I´m in the house?

- YES!

- Mmm… I´m in the house with mum and dad?

- NO..

At this way the children will have to think what they could have in forehead, and they

will has remembered all they learned during this 4 weeks.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfHWc6-xuE4&list=PL3DA9901271462FC8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfHWc6-xuE4&list=PL3DA9901271462FC8

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