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FOR or SINCE? (3º ESO)

Let's have a very quick grammar lesson. Learn how to use SINCE and FOR correctly when using the Present Perfect Tense. VERY FAST ENGLISH - Made with Moovly

Meet Ashley! (4º ESO)

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Skill: Listening Grammar: Reported speech. Vocabulary: Emotions.   We have a special guest today. This is Becky, everyone!   As you can see, Ashley is an astronaut. She is preparing for a very special mission: exploring the moons of Jupiter. When you are in outer space, it is very important that you handle your emotions properly. If any problem arises, you really need to stay calm and find the best way to solve it.   However, she is an emotional person just like any of us. She is very good at identifying emotions and speaking about it. She will tell us about things that awake particular feelings in her. What makes her feel angry? What makes her feel sad? Listen carefully to everything she says!  https://tinyurl.com/2p7a4wos   A.      Now tell other people about it! Report Ashley’s sentences using indirect speech: Ashley said that ... Write one separate sentence to report each emotion. B.      Give each of Ashley’s emotions...

Empathy (1º / 2º Bacharelato)

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  This activity is meant to identify empathy and empathetic actions. Ask your students  to read comics A and B and finish both stories with a short dialogue.   When they are finished, elicit their opinions. Look at the girl’s reactions: is she more empathetic in comic A or in comic B? Why do you think that? In which version does the boy feel more comforted? What actions can we take in order to show our empathy to another person? (possible answers: listening, acknowledging the other person’s feeling or concern, showing support, and so on).

How Is She Feeling? (2º ESO)

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Vocabulary focus: Emotions Grammar: 1st Conditional. Level: 2º ESO. In this activity we will make our first contact with the world of emotions in English. We will start by refreshing and expand vocabulary related to basic emotions. Then we will move on and teach how to use the 1st conditional. A. Warm-up activity.  Start by screening this short video whose stars are the characters from the film Inside Out. This is highly recommended as a warm-up activity. Based on the behavior of the different characters, the class must guess what emotions the little girl is feeling. The answers are very easy and they probably already know the movie, so you can take this opportunity to ask the students what other words they know related to emotions. For instance:  happy: merry, cheerful, delighted ... scared: afraid, frightened, terrified ...  and so on. B. Grammar presentation.  Teach how the 1st conditional is formed. We use it in order to express a hypothetical situation and its c...

Innovar na aula de linguas

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Vivimos posiblemente na era da educación humana co maior grao de diversidade nas aulas. O caudal de estímulos ao que o alumnado está exposto na súa actividade cotiá é máis abundante ca nunca antes. A súa condición de nativos e nativas dixitais conduce a un solapamento acelerado de referentes sociais e culturais que ten consecuencias nos seus mecanismos de percepción e de atención. Dadas estas premisas, probablemente a verdadeira innovación docente -e, á vez, probablemente o maior reto- radique en poñer a metodoloxía ao servizo dos intereses, experiencias e motivacións do alumnado. A posición activa de cada estudante no seu proceso de aprendizaxe é unha condición que xa moi poucas voces cuestionan. O profesorado non debe deixar de desempeñar unha función de transferencia, pero as funcións comunicativa, empática e de mediación deben adquirir hoxe un rango, como mínimo, equivalente. Actualmente asóciase adoito a innovación docente coa metodoloxías e as novas tecnoloxías, e non tanto coa n...