Session Five

Approaches and
Methods II
 REFLECTION
(A recap on yesterday’s session)

With 2 colleagues brainstorm ideas

for teaching your LEAST favourite of
the 1º ciclo topics
Now, share your best activities
for your favourite topics.
A look at content based
learning
1. Maths
2. Geography
3. Arts and crafts
 MATHS
SUMS AND VOCAB

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Eg: red + green = black
Other examples are animals/cr vocab etc
Blue red green yellow
what does it say? What colour is it?
 GEOGRAPHY
NOUGHTS AND CROSSES
O: Lisbon
X: Where’s Lisbon?
O: It’s in the centre O wins the square

(Portugal or Europe)
 ARTS AND CRAFTS
PAPER BOATS/PLANES
What activities can you do with the
paper toys afterwards in order to
generate more language production?
 TPR
LEARNING THROUGH DOING
SONGS AND MIME
Song: This is the way we...
Mime: Eating / playing sport / daily
routine / being animals or
professions etc
 PERSONALISATION
APPEALING TO THE
‘EGOCENTRIC’ CHILD
JOURNALS / DIARIES / LETTERS
My weekend – draw and write/tell teacher
A class birthday journal
Letters to santa
Thanksgiving letters
CURIOSITY AS A LEARNING
TOOL
GUESS SOME FACTS
•Identify other ss from their factfiles
•Guess things about the teacher
•What’s in the box?
 PRONUNCIATION
TEACH IT WHEN THEY’RE YOUNG
I found a cow A cow! How?
I found a hen A hen! When?
I found a bear A bear! Where?
Don’t be so nosey!
I can’t, I won’t, I’m not, I don’t.
I will, I am, I do, I can
 DOGME
TEACHING WITHOUT MATERIALS
•2 minutes to write (down) everything you
can see inside/outside the classroom
•Family trees
•CHAIN DRILLS:
Last christmas I got a...
Last weekend I went to...
 TOYS AND REALIA
ROLEPLAY
•Toys
•Kitchen stuff, toy food
•Real food! Tasting blindfold, cooking
•Clothes
•Train tickets
•Maps
 DRAMA
MINI PLAYS & IMPROVISATION
•5 little ducks went swimming one day
•Christmas / end of year performance
•Party improv pieces
Feedback time

Which new activities do you want to implement

during the next academic year?
How do you need to prepare?

Now make some resources

for future use