Welcome to teacher Chiara's blog! Questo blog è principalmente rivolto ai miei alunni con l'obiettivo di stimolare in loro interesse e curiosità per la lingua inglese che ci permette di comunicare con tante persone di culture diverse dalla nostra.
"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality" (John Lennon)
Dear students of classes II G and II H here are some links with useful exercises where you have to choose either the present simple or the present continuous.
Try them!
Students of class 3 E are studying should and could too just like their friends of class 3 As and we thought of creating two padlets where they can share their problems and give advice to their friends.
They can use their real names, nicknames or invented names.
The activity is as follow:
- students think about 2-3 issues each;
- they write the issues on the padlet called "Teen issues" that is both here and in "edmodo";
- they can use their real names or they can use a nickname or an invented name.
After finishing writing all the posts:
- all the students read the issues their mates wrote
- try to find a solution to at least 2-3 issues each
- post their solutions in the padlet called "Teen advice column"
3rd year students are studying how to ask for and give advice using the structures should and could.
So this morning we had the idea of creating a teen column similar to the one you find in magazines and we also imagined that in their ideal school there is a place where to talk about teen issues and discuss about their solutions.
The activity is as follow:
- students think about 2-3 issues each;
- they write the issues on the padlet called "Teen issues" that is both here and in "edmodo";
- they can use their real names or they can use a nickname or an invented name.
After finishing writing all the posts:
- all the students read the issues their mates wrote
- try to find a solution to at least 2-3 issues each
- post their solutions in the padlet called "Teen advice column"
And now let's have some fun with this particular rap!
After all these exercises and videos you have now learnt a lot of verbs in the past and are now ready to tell the class about your Christmas holidays. So when we go back to school get ready to answer to some of these questions:
What did you do during your Christmas holidays?
Who did you visit?
Who did you spend time with?
What and where did you eat?
What presents did you receive?
How did you celebrate New Year's Eve?
What presents did you buy?
Who did you buy presents for?
....
Last two weeks students of classes 3E and 3As have been studying the future forms in English and we focused on the future form with will.
I created some padlets for them and they wrote their ideas, opinions and wishes on them.
There are some mistakes but never mind, the most important aspect in this moment is to communicate what is in their and our mind about school and towns in the future.
Some of the things they said are already reality somewhere both in Italy and in other countries, some other will come true, at least we hope so, and some others ... hope not!
To carry out this activities the students brainstormed at school and shared ideas, then, at home, they wrote posts n the padltes I had created for them and shared in edmodo.
After having let them exercise with "will" I gave them a photocopy of a song and we listened to it, they carried out the tasks on it and we enjoyed singing it!
Yesterday morning we had the pleasure of having with us Alastair and Helen in the school of Giove.
Students of class III A are studying the present perfect tense so we had an activity on it.
Both of them tried to explain when to use this grammar structure and I think the students got it at last!
The fact is that this is a topic that isn't very easy for English speakers either!
After having done some exercises the students asked them some questions such as:
Have you aver been outside Europe?
Have you ever won a prize in an important competition?
Have you ever eaten Chinese food?
Have you ever ridden a horse?
And so on.
Here is a link to an older post in this blog with videos and exercises
Second year students started to study the simple past so they will be able to talk about their past experiences very soon.
They have all studied the simple past of the verb to be and some of them started to study the simple past of the other verbs, both regular and irregular.
Here are some useful exercises to let all of you be more confident in telling us about your past.
