Building blocks to learn English

In the last Macmillan Teachers Training Session we had the opportunity to put into practice a very easy and productive activity in which you only need children and building blocks.

- Place the children in groups of 3.

- Have plenty of building blocks for each group.

- The teacher starts giving instructions in English and children follow the instructions using the 

   building blocks.

Eg. Teacher says: "Classify the blocks in colours, shapes and size"

 

 You can do it more complex. Eg, teacher says: "make an animal with the building blocks" 

Now, more examples: "I want to see a table and a chair" (teacher asks for as many furniture as you want)

An other example, teacher says: "make a building of your city".  When children have their buildings ready, you can use some of these buildings to make a city and work about directions and prepositions of place.

  

 

A new example, to work about comparative and superlative adjectives. Eg, teacher says: "make the tallest tower"

Vowels phonics video ready to use

Today for a change here you have a link on a vowel phonics video that has been tried out in a public Bages school and kids really enjoy it. The teacher found it very engaging.

Give it a try!

This video could be suitable for ages 6 to 8:

And now another video for older ones: