Introduction to the Course
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Developing your class You might find the following suggestions useful while developing the lesson in the classroom: • Rhyming words: Clap each time words rhyme and encourage students to do the same every time they hear them. • If your students are restless, make four groups and name each group with a similar word, for example, bat, rat, cat, hat. Make sure each group recognizes their name. Say each word slowly. When the group with that name listens to the word, they stand up. If they listen to the word again, they sit down. Say the words faster and faster each time. You can play this game for 3 minutes, more or less. It will help with discrimination of sounds. • Pronunciation and repeating activities: When students need to repeat a word or expression to practice how it is pronounced, have them say it in different voices, for example, whispering, or in a loud voice, “singing”, in a “tiger’s” voice, etcetera. Appendix You will also find in some of the activities an Appendix icon which includes a page number. Every time you find it, check with your students the information provided on the corresponding page in the Activity Book. This information may refer to Language aspects (Learning to Know), to the development of Skills (Learning to Do), or to the development of self-directed Learning skills (Learning to Learn). In this Teacher’s Guide we suggest how to approach it in each specific case: Sometimes students will infer the information and the Appendix will only reinforce their knowledge; in other cases, it will provide structures or expressions for them to use in the development of their social practices, or finally, it will give them tips or suggestions on how to perform a task.
Time to Shine! This activity will give students the opportunity to reflect upon the way they learn by contributing with extra information related to the theme of the unit. It is also important to mention that the knowledge is continually recycled, so as you start to advance, you will find activities that were developed previously. There are suggestions so students can transform these Time to Shine! activities into significant experiences that will allow them to be more responsible for their learning process. Evaluation Tool At the end of each unit, there is an evaluation tool, which may help you evaluate your students individually. This tool has been adapted to cover the achievements that your students should reach, so we hope the tool we designed makes evaluation a lot easier for you. Reader In each lesson you will find a Reader box with a question that sets a goal to develop your students’ reading strategies. In order to answer that question, you could read the pages indicated during the class or assign them for homework. The questions are formulated in a way that will help students practice the Social Practice of the Language of the unit and exercise a broad variety of skills such as predicting, inferring, and sequencing.
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