CALL Lessons 2005-2007

A blog for the CALL lessons with my three 5th and 6th grade classes (2005-2007)

    CALL Lesson 6 (Jan 22-23)

We didn't have time (= não tivemos tempo) to finish our plan two weeks ago, so that is "one" thing we will do in today's lesson. But before we do that, let's take a look at our Links in both blogs where you have very pages to help you study English.

In the last part of our lesson we will look at different posts (= pieces of news) that I inserted during the Christmas holidays, when "you" were very quiet...

Objectives
Students will:
-- browse relevant links for their study of English
-- browse December posts, read comments and listen to some voiceboard messages
-- go through the Xmas e-card, and solve the Xmas and New Year's puzzles.

Activities
1. look at the following links in the CALL lesson blog
   -- Dictionaries (3)
   -- Pronunciation pages (2)
2. look at the following links in the Have Fun with English! 2 blog
   -- Activities/Exercises
   -- Podcasts
3. browse through some December posts and comments
   -- Dec. 22: Merry Christmas (see the e-card, listen to one carol and do the puzzles)
   -- Dec 30: Happy New Year (see the image and do the puzzle)

Enjoy!  

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Report on CALL lesson 6

We used the school cable connection, my laptop, my new set of very light and slim Targus speakers (wonderful! fabulous amplification of sound!), and the school's video projector.

Everything went as planned in bothe classes (6.C and 6.E; 6.D is still grounded). The link in the Link area that really got them "hooked" was the audio dictionary. It's organized by topics and there's a mouseover effect: you listen to the word as you drag the mouse over it. They also liked the Pronunciation page, because we follow the same "recipe": Portuguese sounds to help pronounce English words correctly. The Activities page is also a favorite of theirs, because they can see everything that is available to them this year and from past years (organized by school years and by type of exercise), and just click to start.

Another highlight was going through the Christmas post with that beautiful interactive e-card, which most of them hadn't seen at the appropriate time. They enjoyed clicking and seeing all the beautiful effects come to life. The fact that most students were seeing it for the first time confirmed my idea that vacation time is a time to... get away from everything.

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