English Camps

Hello everybody 

Everyone knows that there is no better way to learn than experience. For that reason I am sure that every teacher should recommend an English Camp or any linguistic immersion experience to their students.I studied English during six years at Primary School, four years at ESO and two years in Bachiller, but I wasn´t until I was 18 years old that I spent one summer in the USA and I really started to learn English language. These kind of experiences are priceless. 

Some years ago English camps and similar experiencies used to be very expensive and not everybody could afford it. However, today we have too many options. I have found very interesting English Camps and they are almost free, for example this one in the city of Granada:

http://englishcamp.es/

As teachers, I think that we have to make our students and their parents to understand the importance of these experiences, and encourage then to invest their time and economial effort. We could also look for different opportunities for them taking into account their possibilities, and helping then to embrace these kinds of initiatives. 

Let´s English be part of our holidays!!

See you all,

Bea 

Learning English Vocabulary

Hello everyone

Today I would like to reflect about the importance of learning English vocabulary. There are so many different ways of teaching vocabulary to our students, and no one would disagree about how necessary it is for them.

I would like to show a very interesting video about how to memorize vocabulary words:

After thinking about it, I would like to suggest an activity: Memory Cards. Memory Cards are a good option when teaching English vocabulary. I use them while working in little groups. Students normally like it because learning vocabulary this way is quite funny. They like competitions and becoming the winner of the play. We can work any category of vocabulary:  nouns, verbs, phrasal verbs, etc. And we can make this game by ourselves in a very easy way. Here you can find an useful link for it: http://www.momsandmunchkins.ca/2012/03/15/how-to-make-a-memory-game/

How to play:

In the game of Memory, players try to collect pairs of matching cards.

1. All of the cards are placed face down on a flat surface.
2. A player turns up two cards; it they match, they are collected by the player and he or she goes again.
3. If they don´t match, the cards are flipped over and it´s the next player´s turn.
4. The player with the most matching sets of cards at the end of the game wins.

Hope you find it useful and interesting,

See you soon

Bea :)