Last lesson before Christmas

Today is our last lesson of Technologies in English before Christmas.

During this term, if you followed our blog, you'll have noticed that we've learned lots of things:

• How to express ourselves in English during the class, asking for help, permission, apologizing, etc... CLASSROOM LANGUAGE
• Definition of Technology and the stages of the technological process.
• Most common vocabulary related to ICT: parts of computer, instructions...
• How to join and use edmodo: an online platform for communication between teachers and students.
• How to draw with Cadstd: a free software for technical drawing.

We've played games, we've listened to English descriptions to pick up some information, we've worked in groups, individually, with worksheets, with computers, we've read and written, spoken... In short, we've used the English as a way to learn technologies with a varied methodology.

Now, it's time to make a balance. I would like to know and show what my student's opinions are about this term: what they liked most, least,  suggestions and everything they want to express about these months...in English, of course!!!

So, please, leave me your comments on this post, so that I'll be able to analyze them and make improvements for the next term. You just need to prepare it a little bit and have a gmail account to do it. This is my homework for Christmas.

I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for everybody!!!

See you soon!

Unit 3: Graphic Expression

Hi everybody!!

As we said last week, today we've started a new Unit: Graphic Expression or Technical Drawing.

In this unit, we're going to use a free software called Cadstd .

We're going to draw a Tangram with this software. To do this, I've given them a sheet of paper with all the instructions to follow (in English, of course)

This software is already installed on the minis, so they have turned them on and started working.

They haven't finished yet. Next week we'll continue with the project.

As well, next week it will be our last lesson before Christmas and I've asked them to bring their dictionaries, and to have a gmail account, because we'll need them.

See you next week!

Last lesson about IT

Hi everybody!

Today we've finished our Unit 2, related to Information Technologies.

First we've reviewed some of the vocabulary using some flash cards. 

Then we played a listening game, available in the link below:

http://www.elllo.org/english/Games/G021-Computer.html

The game consisted of listening to 6 different descriptions of computer parts, and they had to guess which picture matched with each description. They had three options. Easy for them!!!

Then we listened to it again, but in this case, they had to pick more information: words, part of sentences...

Finally, we listened to it a third time, but we read the text at the same time, asking for new words, etc...

It has been quite interesting!!

There are thousands of resources for English and Technologies searching adequately the Internet. I've sent you this link by Edmodo too, in addition to last week links, so that you can practise whenever you want.

Next week we'll start with the Unit 3, related to Graphic Expression.

See you!!