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Preface
The word didactic comes from the Greek
languge didaskein. It means teaching and
tkne suggests art; art of teaching. Didactic
refers to the principles, phenomena, forms,
precepts, and laws of teaching with no subject in
particular (Stcker, 1964).
Medina (2003, p.7), defines didactic as:
A discipline of pedagogical nature that focuses on
the teaching goals and compromise with the aim
of better human begins through the understanding
and permanent change of the social communicative
developments, and the receiving and appropriate
growth of the teaching and learning process.
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SKILLS: LISTENING
MATERIALS: BOARD, CHALK
CATEGORY: TEAM WORK
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task.
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Procedures:
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Suggestions:
You could also make game cards with
either the past or past participle and require
students to find the other form (in this case the
basic form is not used).
Procedures:
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Suggestions:
The students at their seats could help you
check that the correct numbers are crossed out.
With one hundred numbers on the board, you
could choose new teams until every student in
the class has had the turn to participate.
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Objectives:
Suggestions:
A student can be sent to the board to write
words down and check correct spelling of words.
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Image sentences
Chain Spelling
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Procedures:
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Observing People
Procedures:
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Suggestions:
Have students present their written report
as well as the oral exposition. A specific grading
scale could be prepared by the teacher in order to
assess students work.
Procedures:
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Suggestions:
Give each group different pictures to carry out
this didactic strategy.
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Procedures:
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SKILLS: LISTENING, WRITING, SPEAKING
MATERIALS: SHORT VIDEO SEGMENT,
PAPER, PEN
CATEGORY: WHOLE CLASS
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information.
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Suggestions:
The group that guesses the fastest gets
two points (one for guessing and one for being
the fastest).
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Guessing who am I
SKILLS: SPEAKING
MATERIALS: NONE
CATEGORY: GROUP WORK
Objectives:
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Suggestions:
If you have time distribute old news
magazine for students to find articles. You may
want to suggest an approximate size for these
articles.
15.
Concentration
14.
The Journalist
Objectives:
Procedures:
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Objectives:
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Suggestions:
You can use this game to review plural
spelling rules, irregular plural forms, or a
combination.
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SKILLS: SPEAKING
MATERIALS: CARDS WITH DIFFERENT
NAMES OF OCCUPATIONS, THREE COLOR
CARDS, A CLOCK.
CATEGORY: GROUP WORK
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Suggestions:
This game could be used with any other
type of useful vocabulary according to students
interests.
Instead of cards, a video beam projector
could also be used, so pictures could be shown
in a bigger screen to be well observable by the
entire class.
17.
The caterpillar
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SKILLS: SPEAKING
MATERIALS: A CATERPILLAR SHAPE ROD
MADE OF DIFFERENT COLOR PAPER AND
CONTAINING AS MANY CHUNKS AS IT IS
WISHED, A DICE
CATEGORY: GROUP WORK
Objectives:
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caterpillar.
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which will be stuck to the caterpillar`s tail.
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by turns as dice shows. Each color will
represent a group.
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questions or commands, for the different
tasks the students will be carrying out based
on the caterpillars number of chunks.
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color for your classmates to guess what it is.
Procedures:
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SKILLS: SPEAKING
MATERIALS:
MASKS,
CLASSROOM
OBJECTS
CATEGORY: GROUP WORK
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describing classroom objects.
Procedures:
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Blockbusters
SKILLS: SPEAKING
MATERIALS: A COPY OF THE GRID, COPY
OF THE ENLARGED GRID WITH A LETTER
OF THE ALPHABET IN EACH FIGURE.
CATEGORY: GROUP WORK
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SKILLS: SPEAKING
EAKING
MATERIALS: SET OF CARDS
OCCUPATIONS
CATEGORY: GROUP WORK
WITH
Objective:
Procedures:
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Suggestions:
This activity could be adapted to many
vocabulary sets in order to reinforce more words.
If teachers prepare only one set, this could
be pasted on the board to play with the whole
class. In this case, the student who makes the
most pairs will be the winner.
21.
SKILLS: READING
MATERIALS: FIVE TO SIX CARDBOARD
PAPERS, FIVE TO SIX MARKERS, ADHESIVE
TAPE, A COPY OF THE SUGGESTED
CLASSROOM NORMS PROPOSED BY THE
TEACHER
CATEGORY: GROUP WORK
Objectives:
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Ask students to make the same groups,
but this time, they will be motivated to write
their own classroom norms. Every group will
have a coordinator who is going to be in charge
of presenting their norms to the class. Teacher
will discuss these norms with students in order to
choose the most appropriate ones.
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MATERIALS: FOUR CARDS
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CATEGORY: GROUP WORK
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listening and associating them with the word
they see and the movement they make.
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Procedures:
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Suggestions:
Suggestions:
This activity could be used as a `warm up`
to introduce the topic or to reinforce it.
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SKILLS: SPEAKING
MATERIALS:
REALIA,
MATERIAL
CATEGORY: GROUP WORK
AUTHENTIC
Objective:
SKILLS: WRITING
MATERIALS: A COPY CONTAINING
CLASSROOM OBJECTS AND PERSONAL
ITEM PICTURES.
CATEGORY: INDIVIDUAL WORK
Objectives:
Procedures:
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Suggestions:
This game can also be played with
numbers; in this case, laminated cards with
numbers are used.
If a student does not want to play, he/she
could be then replaced by another classmate from
his/her group.
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SKILLS: LISTENING
MATERIALS: SHEET OF PAPER, PENCIL
CATEGORY: GROUP WORK
Objectives:
SKILLS: LISTENING
STENING
MATERIALS:
LAMINATED
CARDS
CONTAINING THE LETTERS OF THE
ALPHABET, TAPE, TWO PIECES OF CHALK
CATEGORY: WORK WORK
Objective:
Procedures:
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SKILLS: SPEAKING
MATERIALS: FIVE SET OF CARDS WITH
VOCABULARY WORDS ABOUT PEOPLE`S
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
CATEGORY: GROUP WORK
Objective:
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phrases related to people`s physical appearance.
Procedures:
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Procedures:
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information.
Procedures:
SKILLS: WRITING, READING, SPEAKING
MATERIALS: CARD BOARD PAPER,
ADHESIVE TAPE, MARKERS, A COPY
WITH SUFFIXES
CATEGORY: INDIVIDUAL/GROUP WORK
Objectives:
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Procedures:
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Think fast!!
SKILLS: SPEAKING
MATERIALS: A LIST OF VOCABULARY OR
TOPICS FOR REVISION. E.G. WORD FIELDS,
GRAMMAR, FACTS...
CATEGORY: GROUP WORK
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Frabonni, F. 1998. El libro de la pedagoga y la
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Edina, A. 2003. La didctica: disciplina
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Madrid: Prentice Hall.
Programa de Estudios Ingls III ciclo. (2005).
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Anexo
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