Arcelacish

  I like the Storyjumper from María del Rocío’s Study Maniac blog. I have thought that I could use it with my 3rd PMAR students after Xmas holidays to revise the tenses they studied in the first term. So the activity proposed consisted of making a fairy tale, as they would find it easier to do since they are familiar with them. They were reluctant to do the activity on their own, so I decided that we would build it together, hoping they would find it motivating in order to encourage themselves next time. They chose Little Red Riding Hood . The steps went as follows: 1.        Revise the story. 2.        Provide the basic vocabulary needed. 3.        Revise the past simple, the present simple and the going to future. 4.        Build the story together. 5.        Feedback. Here is the link: https://www.storyjumper.com/boo...

  This project was aimed at my students of 3rd PMAR, to try to make them more engaged with the subject, as students of this kind are quite reluctant to learning in general. The stages of it are explained below. As there are only six students in this class, I set up three groups of two students each. The project was worked on in the last days of the term, since they tend to be more tired and de-motivated. To prevent them from not doing the task, the projects were done in the IT room, under my supervision and guidance during such days. Once the project was done, they copied and pasted the info to be spoken on naturalreaders.com, which is similar to Voki but more adult-oriented. They listened to the sentences and repeated them. The outcome was pretty good and the goal was achieved. My conclusion about Genially is that it is a more interactive, thus motivating, tool compared to Google Slides and/or PowerPoint. Moreover, as it is done on the cloud, there are not the problems of co...