SESSION 3: HOW CAN WE GET THERE?

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To last this Friday’s afternoon, I put into practice the third session of my educational intervention. As I tried to plan at the beginning, we remembered together how to indicate directions in English with a detailed Power Point. Therefore, I can greatly say that they knew most of them with double evidence and enthusiasm which was a symbol that they assimilated what they practiced on previous sessions.

In order to active their prior notions, I explained the game that was bound to be played in pairs. It consisted of a DIN-3 drawn map with ten numbered places about Campins and two sets (one for each member of the pair) of ten flashcards to play this orientation game. I believe that it worked well because they were paying a lot of attention with the indications I was saying to them.

In real scene, they had to put the flashcards on the back to not see the real place. When they took one that sould be different from each member of the partner, it was turn to indicate how to get there thanks to the structure of phrases and their orientation being constantly activated. In turn to know a bit more their level of understanding, I found enriching that they had the chance to practice individually with a worksheet based on crossing the possible answers for each question and matching expressions about directions with the correct name.

Finally, I would like to express that it has newly been such as an excellent possibility to perform this session in a real class context and what counts more for me, with a participative group of pupils being always aware of what it is going to come next. Furthermore, I would add their passion for most of them for learning English and giving me the opportunity to let me feel just as their real teacher for some time next to them. 

And remember that... you are going to see more entries very soon! Bye!

Finally, they were able to check this Power Point to get better oriented during this activity, apart from having hands-on materials to see and rapidly check what they were finding out! 

SESSION 2: LET'S DISCOVER CAMPINS THROUGH ENGLISH LANGUAGE!

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Let's discover more details about a new session... To do it, just read the following lines and enjoy it!

I began this morning with high levels of energy and illusion to present another session of this educational intervention. I arrived some minutes before in order to prepare the materials needed for this activity. Once everybody was ready, I announced that they were bound to start a new adventure with me and collaboration was needed to reach our final aim: to elaborate a mural in turn to check what they have learnt about the different parts of Campins.

After watching a Power Point in which I showed relevant facts about this village (for instance, number of inhabitants, representative buildings, main festivities…), I indicated the steps they should have followed for completing a cardboard in groups about one building they liked to work on it. I then gave sets of materials (e.g. a list of words and images to verify and cut, decorated paper to create the title) to each group to start the elaboration of the mural.

In conclusion, I now feel totally glad because they enjoyed the activity since the first minutes. At the same level, I noticed that they added the ingredients of fulfilment and joy to complete the whole task and put the final posters on a corridor’s wall next to the room. What’s more, I would like to stress out a quote from Frank Smith, a contemporary psycholinguist, because it represents very well the essence of today’s session for the innate spirit they show for learning English: One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way. 

I would like to close this entry with some photographs and a video that summarize very well how they looked so curious to progress and get their final posters!

Here below you can get familiarized with the Power Point developed at class. Have a good reading time too!