"ZOG" (Narración y Dramatización)

“ZOG”

We have read the book “ZOG” in class and in groups we have had to think whether the book was appropriate for children. And we decide that it was appropriate for children of five years old for these reasons:

The book is interesting because children like magic things and they want to become “big dragons”.

The level is adequate although the book has words that they do not understand; the general idea is easy to understand.

There are not long descriptive paragraphs, there are short sentences.

There are literary devices such as: “now that you have been shown, you can practise on your own”.

It has a good layout because the children are able to follow the book while they are looking at the pictures.

With this book teacher can teach values like friendship.

READER "CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY" BY ROALD DAHL (Narración y dramatización)

"CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY" (chapter one)

Hello! My name is Charlie Bucket. I live in a very little house with my family; my mother, my father and my four grandparents, my mother’s parents and my father’s parents.

We do not have so much money because my father is the only one with a job.

We usually eat cabbage but I prefer to eat chocolate because it is my favourite food. This is the reason why I love my birthday’s present, a tiny chocolate bar that I eat slowly.

Every day when I go to the school I see Willy Wonka’s huge chocolate factory that smells like chocolate and makes me feel starving.

I would really like to get in the factory and discover how it is from the inside. 

DESIGN OF A LISTENING ACTIVITY (Didáctica)

ALIENS

BEFORE LISTENING:

In the first activity we are going to work with numbers and colours, asking questions.

•  How many aliens are there?
• How many colours can you see?
• How many legs have aliens got?
• How many heads have they got?
• How many aliens are reading? And drinking? And smoking?

  

WHILE LISTENING:

We are going to listen a description of three aliens that are in the picture, and students must circle the aliens that the listening describes.

For example:

1.       The alien is green. It has got one head, two arms and two legs. It is sitting in a chair crossing the legs; it is also reading the newspaper.

AFTER LISTENING:

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

RESOURCES (Didáctica)

Below I will put some websites that have games and activities, which we can use with children to learn English.

They are a good resource to learn and improve grammar and vocabulary.

• www.pbskids.org
• www.kids.yahoo.com/ask_earl
• www.kidshealthy.org/kid
• www.ars.usda.gov(is/kid
• www.serpadres.es
• www.colorearyaprender.com
• www.education.com

RESOURCES (Narración y dramatización)

Below I will put some websites that have tales, short stories and readings, which we can use with children to learn English. 

They are a good resource to improve reading and listening strategies. 

• www.magicskeys.com/books/index.html

• www.storybookcastle.com/tales

• www.people.ucalgary.ca

• www.storylineonline.net

• www.sylvandellpublishing.com

• www.pbskids.org

• www.bbc.co.uk