Last entry- Final demostrations

 Hi!

Welcome to the last entry of my blog.

Let’s talk about our classes from May 21^st and 23^rd. First on May 1^st we learned about Jazz chants which are rhythmic ways of speaking a language that help students practice the natural patterns of stress and intonation. This technique was created by Carolyn Graham, these chants use rhythm, repetition, and music to make learning fun and effective. They often involve a call-and-response format and can cover many topics, from simple words to complex grammar.

After watching some videos about Jazz chants, we created ours. For example, Irene and I created one that said:

“What do have in the classroom?”

“ A red bottle”, “A red bottle”

“What do have in the classroom?”

“A pink bagpack”, “a pink bagpack”

“What do have in the classroom?”

“a brown desk”, “a brown desk”

“Those are things we have in the classroom.”

It was funny because the idea just came out of nowhere and we enjoyed it.

On May 23^rd we started with teaching demonstrations.

First, Madeline’s group explained basic grammar and as part of their activity, they gave us some cards with a verb, we had to say it in English and Spanish, and include it in a sentence.

Second, Kimberly’s group talked about Vocabulary by playing the game “Hot potato” and after listening to all the words, we played a Kahoot.

 

Alejandra’s group taught us about advanced pronunciation and as an activity, we played bingo, it was fun, unfortunately, there was a power outage and we couldn’t continue, but my group won the third place.

Daniela’s group explained pronunciation and as part of the activity we listened to the song “Snowman” by Sia and they asked some questions about it.

I still can’t believe we are almost completing this semester.  I just want to thank my friends, classmates and teacher Orlando for making this a great semester.

Blessings!