Listening comprehension and pronunciation

[This is an activity addressed to Advanced Didactics of the English Language. I only use this blog as a tool to show the materials I created for the activity. This blog was originally created for the ICT Tools Applied to the Learning of English Language subject, so all the post publicated before of the 6th of december are part of an ICT activity and this post is part of  an Advanced Didactics of the English Language activity]

The BFG

This activity is addressed to children of 4^th of primary. The objective of this activity is to make the children understand the whole text without explaining it word by word and to help them to pronounce difficult words. The aim is to improve their listening comprehension and pronunciation skills. 

Here you'll find a crossword, a record, two worksheets and a powerpoint presentation shared with slideshare. 

First the teacher should hand the first sheet out and show the crossword to the class in the interactive board, so all the class can see it and can work together to solve it. 

We won't move to the listening task till we know that all the students really know the meaning of the words and can use them. 

Then, the teacher should reproduce this record but without showing any image, so the students really focus in the oral input. They will listen it twice. They will have to answer the questions in the sheet individually. After completing this activity the teacher will ask different student to read their answers to the questions and they will correct them all together.

Then the teacher will hand the second sheet. She will reproduce the record again, however now they could read the text at the same time. After that, they will have to answer the questions in the sheet individually. Again, after completing this activity the teacher will ask different student to read their answers to the questions and they will correct them all together.

Finally, we'll do a pronunciation task. 
The teacher will reproduce one of the words at the same time that they all see a picture of the word on the interactive whiteboard. Then she will repeat the word out loud trying to pronounce properly, then she will ask all the class to repeat the word. Then she will only show the picture to the class and she will ask one by one to pronounce the word properly. After that each student has to say out loud a sentence with a word they choose.

Sing it all

Now is the moment to assess your new vocabulary, try to fill this crossword, then make an original sentence with each of the words you have guessed in it.

This will suppose a 15 % in your vocabulary final mark.I will take into account the originality and the complexity of the sentences. 

The deadline is the 11^th of December 

Across the universe

Across the universe was one of the most popular hits of the Beatles, and it is also the name of a film that we are going to watch in class during the next week. You can also check the original soundtrack in spotify. The films uses lots of the beatles songs to tell us a love history that took place in USA in the sixties. 

You will have to write a sinopsis of the film and a review. You will have to write between 200 - 300 words. Please be very carefull with the spelling and the grammar, it would suppose a 30% of your final writing mark.

The deadline is the 14^th of December. 

Sing the future: WILL

The next activity is  for your listening mark, you will hear a song here, you can play it as many times as you need.

Then you have to do this exercise where you will have to fill some gaps. You will be asked about the exactly word said in the song so be very focus and try not to use te clues.

Again, you will have to send me a screenshot with your results.  It will give you a 10% of your final listening mark. 

Now, we are going to keep working with this song. As you know we use the auxiliary verb WILL to form the future simple in English. I want you to find in the song every single time they use it. Then I want you to make a sheet for younger students where explain them the use of will: when we use it and how we use it. 

This will give you a 10% of your grammar final mark. 

 The deadline for these activities is the 4^th of December. 

Who is who?

Now, I want you to work in groups of five, so each group can choose a member of The Beatles. 

The aim of this activity is that you go throw his biography, his contribution to the group and the history of music. You should make a poster, and you will explain it to the rest of the class.

Be careful with the grammar and the spelling mistakes while you write your poster. Also, prepare yourself to speak out in public, take care about the pronunciation and the grammar while you are speaking.

You can email me with the members of the group and The Beatle yo have chosen. If more than one group choose the same member, I will do a raffle. 

So at the end of this activity I will give you three marks out of 10. One for speaking, one for writing and one for team work. And that marks will suppose a 20% of your speaking final mark, a 20% of your writing final mark and a 10% of your team work final mark. 

The deadline is the 9^th of December. 

Who were the beatles?

The Beatles were a legendary rock group that formed in Liverpool, England, in 1960, and went on to transform popular music as a creative, highly commercial art form over the next decade. The Beatles were one of the most popular bands of all time, producing songs like "Yesterday, "Hey Jude," "Penny Lane, "With A Little Help From My Friends," "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)," "Day Tripper" and "Come Together. 

You can find more information here. 

During the next weeks we are going to talk, read, watch, listen, play, etc. and every activity is going to be related with them. 

To start I want you to read carefully this text and then answer the questions you will find below: 


The Beatles were one of the most influential music groups of the rock era, and many consider them the best musical group on Earth. Initially they affected the post-war baby boom generation of Britain and the U.S. during the 1960s, and later the rest of the world. Certainly they were the most successful group, with global sales exceeding 1.1 billion records.

While they were originally famous for light-weight pop music (and the extreme hysterical reaction they received from young women), their later works achieved a combination of popular and critical acclaim perhaps unequaled in the 20th century.

Eventually, they became more than recording artists, branching out into film and — particularly in the case of John Lennon — political activism. They achieved an iconic status beyond mere celebrity, with far reaching effects difficult to exaggerate.

The members of the group were John Lennon, (James) Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey), all from Liverpool, Merseyside, England. Original drummer Pete Best was asked to leave the group just before it started recording. Stuart Sutcliffe was with them in Hamburg but also left.

Beatlemania began in the UK and exploded following the appearance of the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show in the United States, on February 9, 1964. The pop-music band became a worldwide phenomenon with worshipful fans, hysterical adulation, and denunciations by culture commentators and others such as Frank Sinatra.

Some of this was confusion over the sources of their music (a similar confusion was evinced in 1956 over Elvis Presley by commentators who were unaware of the tradition of blues, R&B and gospel out of which Presley emerged), and some of it was simply an incredulous reaction to the length of their hair. At any rate, it was regarded by the band members with both awe and resentment.
This text has been taken of: http://www.saberingles.com.ar/reading/beatles.html

The deadline is the 2^nd of December. You have to send an screenshot of your results in both activities. 

Then, I will give you a mark out of ten that will suppose a 20% of your reading comprehension final mark.