Session+2+-+Literacy

__Activity 1: Greetings __ Time: 1’ Materials: None Skills: oral interaction with the group  //The teacher begins with the daily routine, when the teacher enters through the door comes this dialogue: T(teacher) P (pupils) // // T: Hello everybody P: Hello ... T: How are you today? P: I'm fine thank you and you? T: I'm fine thanks //  Activity 2: What day is it today? Time: 7’ Material: Stick Skills: Rewiring simple sentences  //Every day performing this routine, the teacher asks: // // Who is the helper of that table? and it comes out, the first thing the child is to review the vocabulary that comes as a big poster, which in this case is about plants, the child reads the words and in case some do not know, ask for help another partner of the same table. Once this task is over, other helper of the second table begin the next task, this has to change the date, and ask another student to recite the whole date. Then comes another child of the table three and asked what season are we in? and the student must answer if this summer, invest, autumn or spring, and another child finally leaves the table four to this question what is the weather like today? // //has to say if rainy, cloudy, sunny ... // <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> //__<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Activity 3: Show and tell __// <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Time: 20’ <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Materials: Pupils bring it Skills: speaking in front of the whole class //<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Another routine used by the teacher is this activity, children bring from home different objects to show the rest of the class and describe their characteristics like what kind of object is, what qualities are, for what it is used etc, after that each one gets an extra point. These points serve to increase the level of your team because the class is divided into four groups and each time a student is acting well, they get an extra point for the team. For them it is a motivation and the teacher serves to measure the level of class participation. // <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> __<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Activity 4: Watch a short story in the laboratory. __<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Time: 20’ Materials: this interactive short story [] & [] or [] <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Skills: listening and reading. Also speaking and developing creativeness.
 * // Second session //**

//<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The teacher asks them to make a row to go to the laboratory. There she plays the short story of Jack and the Beanstalk. She stops many times for asking them some questions about topics they know and also some new things. At the end they are asked how they think it could end and say it to the class. // //<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Then they came back to class. // <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> __<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Activity 5: Goodbye __ <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Time: 3’ <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Skills: Developing politeness. <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Materials: none <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> //<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">If they are leaving the school or starting the break: The teacher counts back from 3 to zero in order to make the children be quiet and with the table tidy and clean. She decides which is the group that is more quiet, clean and tidy and she ask it to catch their coats and go to the corridor to make a row. They say good bye. //