The
children are curious and they always try to figure out how the world around
them work. They love to discover new things and one way they can do this is by
hearing.
Animals,
insects, and even weather can create amazing noises. These sounds wake up the
curiosity to know and learn something that is interesting or new for the kids. So,
we can take the sounds of the nature and mix them with the learning of English to
create exciting activities that catch the attention of the students and make a
significant learning.
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SOME ACTIVITIVIES
- One activity to reinforce the vocabulary that the students are learning, for example animals, is ask the kids listen to the sound and name the animal they heard. In this case, they identify the sound and relate it with an image that they name.
- Another simple activity is just to play sounds of different kind of weathers, ask the students to close their eyes and feel how the temperature change from hot to cold. They learn to identify opposite words.
And eventually,
when the students have more tools and contact with the language, the use of
more vocabulary and grammar structures can be applied in the activities. For
example:
- They listen to the nature and they describe what they heard. So they can make use of the adjectives and nouns.
- Tell them a story using different sounds of the nature and the students have to act it out. So they imagine and interpret what they got.
The students need to have a previously knowledge of the English language about what they hear, so this can work better and the results can be great.
Well in my case we are learning something about science what I do is to look for videos that add more info to the topic. They really love to see how animals or nature interact. It is curious that everytime we see a topic about science they ask me to see a video. I never tried with sounds but I guess it´ll be interested to use it with them to see if they can identify by the sound what they already learned.
ReplyDeleteThanks Chayito.
I have applied a similar activity in which students just listen to sounds and identify or guess what it is, for example, I have use it with weather: I play some sounds related to weather, as a lighting for a storm, wind for windy, some drops for rain, a person drinking water for hot, etc. And students like it and apply their vocabulary. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteTo be honest I didn´t know that much about these activities and the impact they have. I apply sometimes, specially with elements or the weather that my students have to listen to an app I have for those cases. I didn´t think about the impact and the different activities we can apply using these technique. Really good Chayito, thanks!
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