Presenting Gerund ( affirmative and negative)

The aim of the lesson is to present the gerund used in forming affirmative and negative sentences.

1. Warm-up activity: I gave the students flash cards showing the verbs that we studied in one of the previous lessons and that we are going to use throughout this lesson. Each student got a card and just named the verb/ activity on the card. ( run, jump, swim...)

2. Then as a lead in to the presentation of gerund we listened to a dialogue from the text book that I use in the fifth grade. We listened, read the dialogue and discussed. I used sentences from the dialogue to present the gerund. Make sure to elicit as much as possible from the students before giving them the full explanation.

3. After the students were presented with the way gerund is used I gave them the same cards from the beginning of the lesson for them to say simple sentences about themselves using I like and I don't like.

4. Finally I prepared these really simple speaking cards to help students practice the use of gerund for the third person singular.

You can find the speaking cards here:

http://www.eslprintables.com/powerpoint.asp?id=90770#thetop

Face vocabulary - Learning can be fun!

I use English Adventure B, with the second grade students. When we learn about the parts of the face and the body this is how we usually do it.
1.  I play the song from the CD that goes with the book and students work in pairs so that they need to show the part of the face they hear but on their partner's face.
2. Then I put pictures on the board with the target vocabulary and I play a CD ( you can say the words yourself) and the students need to point to the correct picture.
3. Next, I read them the story Is this my nose? ( A lovely storybook you can order here, they don't charge delivery : http://www.bookdepository.com/Is-This-My-Nose-/9780764161537) , and we use the mirror at the end of the book. Look in the mirror and name the parts of the face.
4. Finally, we use some toys - Mr. and Mrs Potato head - students create their faces and then describe them.

More drama in the classroom - Learning can be fun!

I'm still convinced that drama is one of the best way to learn phrases and words in English.

In our country we usually prepare some activities on the 21 March to celebrate the first day of Spring. So last year I wrote a really short text on the topic of ecology, we made some costumes, we found the right music and the kids had a blast performing it for their classmates. Here's the video. 

And that's not all. My colleagues and I decided to perform this for some of the students. I can't tell you how much fun we had:))