OCTOBER, 19th

Today we have continued with the presentations. Also, people have wroked a lot and their proyects were very originals. Our presentation was about the audiolingual method and in it we have included a little presentation of the method and some of its advantages (i.e. the vocabulary is richer thanks to the visual aids, correct pronunciations are learnt easily by the students, grammatical structures are gradually presentated…) and disadvantages (i.e it’s a mechanical method, the vocabulary which students learnt is quite limited, the students act as passive learners…) and we have planned three activities. But if you prefer see our work, you can do it following the next link.: AUDIO-LINGUAL METHOD

Some activities we have done today were: dancing songs, we have been looking for a treasure, we have seen some pictures to learnt their name, and also we have been practicing a dialogue which could occurs in a real situation. The methods which we have been talking about today were the Audio-Lingual and the TPR methods. It has been a coincidence.

What I have learnt today? Today, I have learnt new options of activities  we can practice in a class with very young learners following differents methods. It is not necessary use only one of these methods, we can combined them.

As I said yesterday, with this kind of works we put in practice these theoric contents that we have learnt before and it helps us to understand better the theory and check what kind of activities we can organize, if the activities are well planned, some advantages or disadvantages of work with each method…it is a good way to start practicing our future work.