ACTIVITIES FROM VIDEOS.

New technologies offer us a huge amount of resources including videos. But we can't make the mistake of plugging any video to the children to be quiet and that's it. We have to select carefully the video depending on what we want to teach and reinforce the concepts with activities.

The other day we saw in class two videos and we create some activities from them. 

From the first video (The Very Hungry Caterpillar) we chose the following activities to be done after the viewing:

1.- FAVOURITE BAR CHART.

We will draw a table on the blackboard with the fruits that the video name and we will ask for the children one by one which is his favourite fruit from all of them and we will see which one is the most popular.

2.- MAKING GROUPS.

After the previous activity we will say to the children to stand up and mix with their partners, after a minute we will say stop and the children will have to ask between them “which is your favourite fruit?” and they should be grouped.

3.- COLOUR DICTATION.

Taking the advantage of the colours that appears in the video, we can dictate some of the colours and the children will have to write them. If they are too young we can use bits and the class will have to say which colour is.

And from the second video (Simon says), we prepared this activities:

1.- TRUE OR FALSE?

After seeing the video, we will ask to the children if the girl that was singing said something about touching...

- the head

- the arms

- the legs

- the hair

or if she said some action like...

- turn around

- jump

- clap

2.- GYM SEQUENCE.

After the previous activity, we will put the children in a circle and we will start saying orders like:

- touch your noise

- clap your hands

- close your eyes

Like in the song.

3.- FRISBEE.

Finally, when children understand the game, we will take a frisbee and we will start throwing it to someone that has to say an order and all the class has to do it, then the child will throw the frisbee again to another kid and he will have to repeat the previous order and invent another one. We will repeat this until all the class has said an order.

*THEY WILL HAVE TO REPEAT EVERY SINGLE ORDER OR PART OF THE BODY THAT WE SAY TO PRACTICE THE PRONUNCIATION AND LISTENING.

I hope you can use them!

ENJOY TEACHING,

Laura.