Mice

MICE

Activities about reading technique

Skimming

1.      How many kinds of mice is the text talking about?

                            three                           five                        two

2.      Which is the smallest kind of mice?

pygmy mouse               jumping mouse         harvest mouse         dormouse

Scanning

1.      The jumping mouse has______back feet.

short                               long                    narrow

2.      Small dormice sleep for seven______every year.

nine                             seven              five

3.      The harvest mouse can_____very well.

eat                                climb                 fly

Intensive reading

1.      Read again jumping mouse and later drawing it and its food.

Making inferences

1.      Who can sleep inside of a sock?

H_____         M______

2.      Which mouse can see a snowboarder?

H_____         M_______

3.      Who can touch the sky?

_______________

4.      If you were Julio Cesar which mice prefer to eat?

_______________

Predicting

Before reading the text we will ask some questions about mice:

1.What is a mouse?

Animal                        toy                             clothes

2.Have you ever seen some mouse? Where?

Film                 street                     home

3.How is it? (Length, colour,…)

4.Do you know some house mouse?  what kind of food do they eat?
where do they live? how are they? 

5.Do you know anohter object that is called mouse?

Contextual Guessing

1.      Match photos with words

Nest                      tail                  pets

 to Climb             back feet       to  eat

 

Other activities

1.      Match photos with words

Pygmy mouse                       jumping mouse

House mouse             harvest mouse          dormouse

Sandra González, Irene del Pozo, Patricia Dominguez y Cristina Vieco

RESOURCES

http://learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/kids-games

http://www.cookie.com/kids/games/english-memory.html

Activities of Theme 1: Second language teaching methods

1. It has been said that the Grammar- Translation Method teaches students about the target language, but not how to use it. Explain the difference in your own words.

The Grammar-Translation Method is a good method only for learning English´s grammar. Although is not good to encourage the communication. A perfect method has to encourage the communication too and the best way to learn it is making errors. The really important thing is to develop communicative competence.


2. In the Grammar-Translation Method, grammar is treated deductively; in the Direct Method, grammar is treated inductively. Can you explain the difference between deductive and inductive treatments of grammar?

Both approaches can offer certain advantages but the biggest difference is the role of the teacher. In a deductive grammar clasroom the teacher conducts lessons by introducing and explaining concept´s to students. Conversely, inductive method is a much more student-centred approach and makes use of a strategy known as noticing. 

Deductive: Generalization ..... Specific Examples or activities

Inductive: Specific Examples or activities ..... Generalization

3.Which of the following techniques follows from the principles of the Audio-Lingual Method, and which ones don´t? Explain the reasons for your answer.

a- It´s not connected with Audio Lingual Method however it´s connected with Grammar-Translation Method.

b- It´s not connected.

c- It´s not connected.

5. Asher believes that foreign language instruction can and should be modelled on native language acquisition. What are some characteristics of TPR that are similar to the way children acquire their native language?

TPR (total physical response) is a useful method for children when they are learning a first language. Because children imitation the direct behaviour that teacher director. Children listen and speak in a enjoyable way. And for this reason children learn properly L1.