Hobbies

In my free time I like to swim, to watch TV, to read. I love being outdoor, being in contact with nature, watching sunsets, and feeling the wind in my face.
I like very much to dance, and going to the movies and the theater.

Video Lesson Plan

I created a lesson plan based on a video for a class of animal vocabulary, below is the link of the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWAtPMsk8_Y

Previewing Activity (4 min.): Brain storming of animals they know.

While-viewing Activity (20 min.): Students will have the below sheet, and next to the letter they will write the name of the animal that is being presented in the video.

Post-viewing Activity (25 min.): Students will create a dialogue describing some characteristics of two animals.

Webquest

Below is a screen shot of a webquest that my classmate Vianney and I created.


Task
Students will have to see the videos and select ten wild animals, look for their name and describe them.

Process
1. The activity is in pairs go fast and find your partner.
2. Watch the videos that are in the following links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDDDqF1rpjM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6ouWOGJk5E
3. Choose the animals that you like the most look for its name and describe it according to what you watched in the videos.
4. In total you have to describe 10 wild animals.
5. Finally you have to present all the animals that you chose in front of the classmates.

Links

Theory
http://www.scribd.com/doc/18530225/TEACHING-ENGLISH-VOCABULARY-BY-USING-ROUTINES-IN-SPEAKING-MEMORIZATION-TECHNIQUE
http://englishvocabularylists.blogspot.com/2008/09/animals-vocabulary-list.html
http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/language_arts/vocab/second/

Games
http://www.manythings.org/lulu/d1.html#
http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=1120
http://www.topenglishteaching.com/english/teaching_resources.asp?teaching=animals
http://www.teachenglishinasia.net/efl-esl-games/efl-esl-vocabulary-games
http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/
http://madridteacher.com/Activities/
http://animal.discovery.com/games/games.html
http://kids.discovery.com/games/games.html
http://resources.kaboose.com/games/science.html
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/
http://www.free-coloring-pages.com/game/coloringbook/index.html

Vocabulary
http://www.seaworld.org/animal-info/sound-library/index.htm
http://animal.discovery.com/
http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/index.html
http://www.elabueloeduca.com/aprender/ingles/animales/animales.html
http://www.kidsplanet.org/factsheets/map.html
http://www.canaryzoo.com/Endangered%2010%20species.htm
http://www.manythings.org/lulu/
http://www.magicvocabulary.net/
http://www.vocabulary.com/
http://syndicate.com/

Introduction

Hello,

My name is Jessica, I am from Costa Rica, and I am studying to teach English as a second langauge.

This is my first entry in this blog, and I hope we can exchange valuable information in order to improve ourselves as teachers.

See ya!!!