LOGBOOK
WEEK: Monday 25th November, 2013 to Sunday 1st December
2013.
DATE: Monday, 25th November, 2013
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LEARN ENGLISH KIDS
ON YOUTUBE
When I looked at
my Symbaloo, I realized it urgently needed of resources based on nursery
rhymes. Children learn through repetition and exposure to input on the
language, and nursery rhymes are really useful because they provide children with
the means to widen their vocabulary range at the time they practice pronunciation,
intonation and listening comprehension.
Learn English
Kids was already a useful website, offering a huge variety of resources for English
teachers and learners. However, its YouTube channel proves better better when
it comes to ease a quick access to a selection of the best tales and nursery
rhyme in class. The teacher can play nursery rhymes and make children repeat
them, make them learn what these mean by visualization, gesticulation and gist,
and also develop classroom activities focused on the story or the nursery rhyme
of choice.
Teachers can stop
the tale/nursery rhyme at a certain point, and try to help pupils understand
what the text means. They can also make pupils think about the story,
complement the information given in the tale, changing the tale and predicting futures
outcomes within. Nursery rhymes are present in traditional tales, and can be
also worked separately, through the display of print-rich musical videos in
which the rhymes are sung and their meanings are easily visualized by looking
at the pictures and animations.
Teachers can
also take the opportunity of using nursery rhymes in class to introduce
cultural aspects of English tradition, as well as other countries from which
the tales/nursery rhymes come from.
EDEWCATE
Edewcate is a website specialized in nursery rhymes.
Its YouTube channel has many videos in which nursery rhymes are sung in a
karaoke fashion, accompanied by subtitles in English and cartoon animations
which made these videos a print-rich resource for meaningful learning. These
rhymes can also be found, not only in English but also in many other different
languages.
COOLSCHOOL
Cool school
offers an alternative to traditional tales. It widens the vocabulary in the
tales and changes the plot to the point that no-one can predict what is going
to come next anymore, despite knowing the tale by heart. The level is for sixth
grade grown up pupils to secondary school students and tries to explain matters
in a funny way. It is more bound to sixth grade or high school students than
lower grade ones, due to it being politely incorrect sometimes, and because of
the complexity of the language used. However, the website is a unique resource
which can be used by secondary school teachers willing to encourage pupils into
learning English language. Feel free to have a look at it. Either you love it
or hate it, there is no in-between. However, despite its drawbacks, it can be a
good way to motivate upper stage learners who might be bored of traditional
tales or nursery rhymes.
Encouraging discouraged
pupils into learning is a hard task, but this website can encourage them to do
so, provided the teacher had allowed pupils to reach a high level of English required
to understand the meanings of the different tales, chants and nursery rhymes.
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