Activities for before, while and after listening

Before listening:

In the first activity we are going to work vocabulary of colours and numbers asking questions like:

• how many aliens are there?
• how many legs have they got?
• how many colours can you see?
• how many heads have they got?
• how many aliens are reading?

While listening:

We are going to listen the description of three different aliens and students must circle the aliens that the listening describe.
For example: it has got one head, two arms and two legs. It is green. It is sitting on a chair crossing it legs, it is also reading a newspaper.

After listening:

Children have to draw their own alien. Then the teacher will stick the pictures on the wall and she/he will describe them and the children have to point the one that the teacher is describing.

Resources

These links can be usseful for teacher or children to learn english.

• www.speakaboos.com/kids/abcs-1235
• www.abcmouse.com
• www.education.com
• www.starfall.com
• teachers.scholastic.com/clifford1/
• www.theyellowpencil.com
• www.eskidstuff.com

FOG

After reading this book in class, in groups we have to decide if the book was appropiated for young children.
My parners and me decided that it was appropiated for children of five years old beacuse:

• it is interesting because children like magic things and they want to became " big dragons".
• the level is appropiate even they are words the don´t know, the general idea is eassy to understand.
• there aren´t long descriptive paragraphs, there are short sentences.
• there are literary devices such as: "now that you´ve been shown, you can practise on your own.
• it has a good layout because the children are able to follow the book while they ara lookin at the pictures.
• we can teach values like friend ship, fullfill theus goals.

Reader, chapter 1: Charlie and the chocolate factory

Hello! I am Charlie Bucket. These are my dad parents Joe and Josephine. And these one are my mum parents George and Georgina.
These are my parents Mr and Mrs Bucket.
I love chocolate and I am jellows when I see my classmates eating chocolate.
Only once a year, in my birthday, I get a chocolate bar. I eat a little bit every day.
The most terrible thing is that we have an enormus chocolate factory near my house! It has big iron gates and a high wall around, and the earth smells of chocolate!!
Oh!! I wish I could get one day inside!!!

Here there are some resources that can be use with children related with this subject:

• http://my1story.net/
• http://www.mightybook.com/story_books.html
• http://www.magickeys.com/books/index.html
• www.grimmfairytales.com
• wetellstories.co.uk
• www.agendaweb.org/listening/easy_reading_listening.html