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Four SkillsHow to work the four ski l ls in

Primary Education. Some

activities.


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MSQ: Foreign Language and Its Didactics 2

The four skillsIn Primary Education:

First, ORALskills (listening & speaking)

Later, move on to WRITTENskills (reading &

writing).

This doesnt mean that the four skills have noconnection between them; on the contrary, the four

skills should be worked in combination.


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Listening

Some kind of activities you can use to work

the LISTENINGskill in a Primary Education

class


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Presenting VocabularyThe teacher will show the students real objects and

images, and will name those objects.

For example, if you want to teach the colors of therainbow, youll need to prepare a POSTERlike this:

Remember: at a first stage, it is not necessary that the studentsknow the written form.


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Presenting VocabularyTo present and teach the vocabulary of the lesson

you can also make use of Flash cards:


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Listening to Songs,Nursery Rhymes

and Chants

If youre happy and you know itIf you're happy and you know it, clap your hands (clap clap)

If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands (clap clap)

If you're happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it

If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands. (clap clap)

If you're happy and you know it, stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you're happy and you know it, stomp your feet (stomp stomp)


If you're happy and you know it, stomp your feet. (stomp stomp)

If you're happy and you know it, shout "Hurray!" (hoo-ray!)

If you're happy and you know it, shout "Hurray!" (hoo-ray!)

If you're happy and you know it, then your face will surely show itIf you're happy and you know it, shout "Hurray!" (hoo-ray!)

If you're happy and you know it, do all three (clap-clap, stomp-stomp, hoo-ray!)

If you're happy and you know it, do all three (clap-clap, stomp-stomp, hoo-ray!)


If you're happy and you know it, do all three. (clap-clap, stomp-stomp, hoo-ray!)


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Songs, Nursery Rhymes and ChantsI can sing a rainbow

Red and yellow and pink and green

Purple and orange and blue

I can sing a rainbow

Sing a rainbow

Sing a rainbow too


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Songs, Nursery Rhymes and Chants

How to work this song in class:

1. With all the colours on the blackboard, the

teacher sings and points at the different

colours.

2. The same but this time its the students

who point at the colours.


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Jump the line The teacher will place a rope along the classroom.

All the students will be standing in one side of the rope.

The teacher will give each student a small card with animage of an object (animals, food, clothes, classroomobjects, etc.)

When all the students are ready and they have the smallcard, the teacher will name an object and the student with

that card will jump the rope. The teacher will check that the right student has jumped.

The teacher may give the card with the same object todifferent students.


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Speaking


the SPEAKINGskill in a Primary Education

class


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Saying VocabularyTo review and practice the vocabulary of the lesson

you can also make use of Flash cards:


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Singing songs First, the teacher sings or plays on the cd player

the song, doing mimics, actions or showingpictures that help the students understand what thesong is about. This first time lets students tofamiliarized with the melody of the song too.

Second, the teacher sings line by line, miming orpointing at the pictures and students repeat afterhim/her.

Lastly the teacher and the students sing the songaltogether.


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Singing Songs, Nursery Rhymesand Chants

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes,

Knees and Toes

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes,

Knees and ToesAnd Eyes and Ears and Mouth and Nose

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes


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Songs, Nursery Rhymes and ChantsHow to work this song in class:

This is an action song, good for warming up. Whilethe teacher is singing, students touch with bothhands their heads, then their shoulders, their knees,and then their toes, as the song indicates.

Later, on the second verse, miss out the word

"Head", but still do the actions. On the third verse,miss out the word "Shoulders", and so on. Finishwith all the words back in, but singing as fast as

possible!


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Magic Box The teacher has a box with images of objects and

actions.

The teacher takes an image out of the box and thestudents will have to know the name of the object.

Students can form groups and they can play as acompetition, getting points on their answers.

The teacher will introduce in the box images ofobjects and actions that have been studied

previously in the classroom.


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Frankenstein This activity will take place in pairs.

One of the students draws a monster, for example, with 3eyes, 4 arms, 5 legs, etc. The drawing will be done withdifferent colours.

Once the drawing is finished, the student will describehis/her monster to his/her classmate, who will draw themonster according to the description given:

My monster has got 3 blue eyes My monster has got 5 red legs; etc.

Finally, the students will compare their drawings.


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Oral Memory The teacher will prepare 2 sets of memory cards

with 2 different colours on the back of the card(blue & green).

In one set the teacher will put images of thevocabulary of the unit and on the other set thesame pictures once again.

The students will have to turn 2 cards over, one of

each colour, and say the name of the 2 images. Ifthey match the student will keep them, if nothe/she will place them back to the same place.

At the end the student with more cards will be thewinner.


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Oral Memory Cards


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Word Chain The teacher asks the children words about a specific

semantic field: family, food, the weather, clothes, etc.

The first student will say one word (apple), the second

student will repeat the previous word and will add a newone (apple and pear), the third student will repeat the

previous words and will add a new one (apple, pear and

banana), etc.

I like pizza, a big round pizza with I go to the zoo and I see


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Chinese Whisper The teacher asks the students to stand in 3

lines of 8 students each line and will

whisper to the first student standing in eachline a word or sentence which they willwhisper to the next student the line. The

last student will tell aloud what he/she hasheard and then we will compare it to theoriginal.


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Representing Role plays

He teacher gives a role to each student, in

small groups or pairs, and after doing a

demonstration of the dialogue, the teacher

asks the students to reproduce it again.

Students are told what to say.


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Dialogues After giving the students a model of the

dialogue (if oral to work speaking if written towork reading) they represent it in pairs of insmall groups.

Material for dialogues:

- Masks

- Puppets- Finger puppets

- Realia (police cap & tourist camera)


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Simulations

The teacher presents the students a specific

situation and the have to solve it using free

language.

The students is not told what to say.

Ex. You are in a restaurant and the waiter

asks you to order your food


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Puppets

To do small plays

To do dialogues


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Guessing Games

I spy with my little eye something:

Beginning with A

Blue


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Reading


the READINGskill in a Primary Education

class


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Reading Cards The teacher will show the students different cards

with the name of the object: Reading Cards.

Students, first, listen to the teacher, and in a secondstage, repeat.

Reading cards can be with words or expressions.

EYE APPLE FOOT


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Lets play Dominoes Dominoes is another kind of reading game. Students

are given a number of cards (10 - 20 cards), and they

play with the same rules as if they were playingdominoes.

FOOT EYE TEETH


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Reading Storybooks

The teacher can read

as the same time that

points pictures or

makes gestures to help

students understand

the text. Students can read the

words or sentences

they already know.


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Wordsearch / Puzzle Hand out a worksheet with a wordsearch for

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Plays

We can give students with a certain English

knowledge a short and easy play as finaltask of the unit, or to represent it at the

school Xmas or Farewell Party.


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Reading Memory Cards

butterfly


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Washing Line

The teacher gives words to the students to

order to make sentences.

Using clothespins students will hang each

sentence in a washing line and the teacher

will correct the order of the words in thesentences.


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Jigsaws

The teacher prepares 2 images in DIN3 of the same picture

(one printed in color and another in black and white on acoloured paper).

The printed in color one will be, once cutted, the pieces ofthe jigsaw.

The b&w on coloured paper will be the base of the jigsaw

after writing on it the vocabulary words that appear on theimage.

The student will have to read the word on the base in orderto place the piece.


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Worksheets Read & match (picture & word)

Snake (circle separating each word) Read and circle the correct one (the dog is

brown/black)

Saying true or false at sentences. Multiple choice questions.

Etc.


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Writing


the WRITINGskill in a Primary Educationclass


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WordsearchHowever, it can be more interesting for the students

create their own wordsearch.

The teacher will explain the process and eachstudent will create his/her own word search aboutthe different topics studied during the year, onewithout solutions and another with solutions.

Afterwards, the teacher will photocopy the differentexercises of word search for all the students and

they will be used in the classroom.


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Lets play Bingo The teacher will ask students words about specific topics, such as:

food, sports, classroom objects, colours, countries and nationalities,etc. The teacher will write the names on the blackboard.

Afterwards, the teacher will ask the students to choose 6 of them andwrite them in their notebook.

Finally, the teacher says random words until one student shoutsBINGO (s/he will be the winner!)

Apple Pear Banana

Pineapple Orange Melon


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Who is who? All the students will write a small card with information

about themselves. On one side of the card, the students will

write their name. And, on the other side of the card, thestudents will write the following information:

Andrs

I'M (tall/short) MY HAIR IS MY EYES ARE

I'M A (girl/boy) I'VE GOT BROTHERS

AND/OR SISTERS


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Who is who?

Once the students have written their own

cards, they will read it aloud so that the restof the students know a bit more about them.

Afterwards, the teacher will shuffle all the

cards and different students will readdifferent cards in order to guess who is who.


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Crosswords


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Unscramble


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Other activities to work the 4skills:

Boardgames

Crafts

Greeting cards

Recipes

Library corner

Computer corner


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Board game
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Craft


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Greeting Cards


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Recipes


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