This session
aims at developing teachers’ skills in the use of portfolio and see how useful
it can be in the development of students’ strengths towards the process of
learning a foreign language. We saw how we can prepare a practical and
cheap portfolio to take records of the strengths and weaknesses of our students
in the classroom. See how regular
records can be part of the permanent formative assessment.
Ideas to promote in the students:
creativity
holistic learning
…
Idea 1: Creative Portfolio
Folder,
white paper, pencils, colours,…
Idea 2: The lexicon
If
you want a building you need bricks, if you want a sentence you need words
Create a list of phrases with words from A
to Z (In basic 1…is it possible? Yes, of course¡)
Idea 3: 10/20/30 Questions to survive
10/20/30
questions to interact (BL), in the street, in a museum, in a coffee bar
Idea 4: Documentaries with subtitles
Expose
Ss to videos with subtitles (summary)
Idea 5: The art of music
Expose
Ss to positive songs with subtitles….songs from the XX century (1901-2000)… but
specially XXI century
Idea 6: Read and Read
Practice
the art of reading: aloud, in silence, in groups, in pairs …. create short
paragraphs
Idea 7: Real Material
Expose
Ss to different magazines and newspaper in English
Idea 8: The CV
Prepare
and create with the Ss their CVs
Idea 9: Ying yang
Make
list of words: nouns, adjectives:
boy-girl, good-bad, white-black...
Idea 10: The journalist
Radio
web in English: interviews / reports / articles…
...
