I love to learn and to teach English!

Recipe book

2008-05-28T16:37:00.000-07:00

2008-05-24T20:59:00.000-07:00

Teacher Beatriz,

All the structures were relevants to me. I think that is very important to the teacher or student of English to review structures and to exchange ideas of activities.

The learners like of different activities. They want to listen music, to play games, but I think that is fundamental to raise the students awareness of the importance of reading ,listening , writing , speaking and of the lexical/structures.

LUCIANA CORRÊA
May, 2008

How I teach grammar ( Teacher Alessandra)

2008-05-24T15:10:00.001-07:00

HOW I TEACH GRAMMAR

I teach in a public School. I must work according to the CBC( Currículo Básico Comum).This CBC of English was made by Reinildes Dias (Ph.D in Educational Technology, Concordia University Montreal, Canada). Her proposal is the Instrumental English. The students use three types of knowledge to learn the English.

WORLD KNOWLEDGE

TEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE

LEXICAL KNOWLEDGE

The proposal aim the competence communicative of students of English. It works with four skills communicative(to read, to write ,to speak, to listen) including into development of each one these skills the reasoning about the knowledge “lexico-sistêmico” being this the fifth skill.
Due to this fact I work the grammar by contextualizing with many types of interesting texts, stories ,comics, poems, charges, proverbs…
By giving them fun activities, by using real examples.
I agree with Jeremy Harmer when he says that the students are interested in to learn grammar with activities like fill-ins and sentences completions. They think that the contextualizing is difficult, but when discover that are capable to develop the five skills by it, change by using this method, they change them ideas. The have adapted well.
I love to teach this way , I wish that it won’t be more a fashion.

Teacher Alessandra ,

Hello!

I liked of the words of Jeremy Harmer a lot .It made me to reflect about some difficulties that I have to teach grammar and my students to learn. It helped me to be more calm about “ the ghost of grammar”.

LUCIANA CORRÊA
MAY, 2008

CBC activity

2008-05-07T16:48:00.000-07:00

FROM: Bill
TO: Milly
MY BIRTHDAY IS:
DATE: May, 01 st
PLACE: 39, Rose Street
HOUR: 7:30 PM
I HOPE YOU!!

Exercises
Read the text above and complete the box.
Kind of text
Central idea(skimming)
Cognates
Specific ideas(scanning)
Your vocabulary
Answer the questions.
Whose is the birthday?
What is the name of guest?
When is the birthday?
What is the address?
Teacher Beatriz,
Hello!
This activity was worked with my students of first grade .It is as the proposal of “CBC” (Currículo Básico Comum). We that teach in Public School must work this way.

Let's exchange ideas

2008-04-09T16:07:00.000-07:00

Hello! My name is Luciana. I work at Minas Gerais , I'm an English Teacher. I wish I would learn and exchange ideas .