CARNIVAL OF RIOSUCIO

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INGRUMA HILL

This is a beautiful picture of Ingruma Hill. 

Riosucio Caldas

 

ADELE - SET FIRE TO THE RAIN (VERBS)

She has an amazing and lovely voice, we can see and hear that she sings with her heart too. She can moves big sensibility among all her spectators. Really it is a great and beautiful song.

ACTIVITY ONE

After listening the song many times, try to look for the meaning of these common verbs: 

Let, fall, claim, stand.say, play, win, set, pour, lay, stay, close, feel, wake up, help, look for.

ACTIVITY TWO

Remember these verbs in past tense and guess if they are regular or irregular and then write the base form:

was, were, kissed, saved, knew, watched, touched, threw, burned, cried, heard, could, felt, died

ACTIVITIES FOR COMMUNICATION (FLUENCY) AND GRAMMAR

SOME  STRATEGIES

Role-play

Choral drilling pronunciation

Dictation

Discussions

Gap-fill exercises

Story writing

Copying words

Repeating new words

Describing pictures

Learning conversations by heart

Problem solving

Story completion

Form filling

Information gap

True/ false questions

GRAMMAR PRESENTATION TECHNIQUES

1.Using a song text

2.Using a time line

3.Reading

4.Using a picture

5.Using realia

6.Personalising

7.Explaining directly

8.Acting  and presenting

9.Discovering

10 Using a chart

11. Eliciting

12. Comparing L1 and L2

READING ACTIVITIES OR STRATEGIES

A newspaper article	Your diary
A dictionary	A letter
A magazine	An advertisement
Subtitles at the cinema	A timetable
The receipt from a supermarket	Instructions for a machine
A label of a packet of food	A novel
The bill in a restaurant	The price list of some places
An official form of some kind	A piece of student´s homework
See the topic in a text	Look for known and unknown words
Schema theory or diagrammatic notes	Mind maping or spider notes

OTHER EFFECTIVE READING STRATEGIES

Read each word very carefully in order to understand the entire text.

Write the meaning of new words in L1.

Look up unfamiliar words in a bilingual dictionary.

Look  for linking words that help explain relationship between sentences.

Ask the teacher for help whenever there is an unfamiliar word.

Translate a difficult section of text into L1.

Think of other words that are similar to the unknown words.

Read a lot of different things in order to expand the vocabulary and improve  the general comprehension.

Try to understand the relationship between the main ideas and supporting details.

Look at titles, subtitles, pictures and other visuals.

Read a text very quickly the first time to get the main idea(gist).

READING SKILLS

Skimming: looking through a text quickly to understand the main ideas or gist. This involves some inference and interpretation.

Scanning:  looking through a text quickly to find words that match what you are looking for. This doesn’t usually involve interpretation.

Extensive reading: reading for the informational content of a text- you are not interested particularly in the language used but in the information.

Intensive reading: paying attention to the exact words which are used.

WRITING ACTIVITIES OR STRATEGIES

A school report

Write a paragraph asking for further information about an advertisement

Do a description of a person or a particular situation

Write a letter to one friend

Write on a radio or tv advertisement

Write a  description on a landscape using imagination

Write a short free composition

Write a journal entry or a diary

Take notes in english class

Write a recipe

Write messages to the classmates

Write cartoons

Writing and ending story

TALKING OR SPEAKING ACTIVITIES OR STRATEGIES

STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING ENGLISH

Role plays

Parent power

Describing a picture

Completing a questionnaire

Having a discussion

Reading a dialogue aloud

Creating and reading a weather forecast

Filling the gap

Find someone who…

Telling a story  or a joke

Doing an exposition

Singing

LISTENING ACTIVITIES OR STRATEGIES

LISTENING ACTIVITIES OR STRATEGIES FOR TEACHING ENGLISH

Short stories of fables

People talking or discussing

Radio or T.V. programs

Public announcements

Videos or movies

Lectures

Explanations

Conversations or oral presentations

Songs or taped texts

Descriptions or taped passages

Drawing a picture or a map while listening

Following an instruction

Make a list of things you hear

Answer the questions about a short text

Repeat a dialogue after listen to it

Reorder a dialogue, paragraph or a text after listen to the tape

Listen and write the missing words

Listen for the main ideas

Listen for specific information

Listening to check if your answers are right or not

Listening for a dictation

Listening to check for mistakes

Listening to take notes

Listening to the other learners or teacher

Listening to match pictures with the descriptions