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Why To Work With Corners?: Resources and Teaching Ideas

The document discusses using "corners" in an English classroom to allow students to work at different levels through a variety of speaking, listening, reading and writing activities focused on grammar, phonetics, games, vocabulary, online activities, books and more. The corners aim to improve oral comprehension and production, use English in and out of class, accept mistakes as part of learning, create situations to use English, and make learning enjoyable. Teachers are advised to select motivating, autonomous activities that work on skills and are related to class content.

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Why To Work With Corners?: Resources and Teaching Ideas

The document discusses using "corners" in an English classroom to allow students to work at different levels through a variety of speaking, listening, reading and writing activities focused on grammar, phonetics, games, vocabulary, online activities, books and more. The corners aim to improve oral comprehension and production, use English in and out of class, accept mistakes as part of learning, create situations to use English, and make learning enjoyable. Teachers are advised to select motivating, autonomous activities that work on skills and are related to class content.

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Resources and Teaching Ideas

“Treball per racons”


ZER Ports-Algars

Why to work with corners?


• To treat the variety of levels in 3rd
cycle.
• To work in an active way.
• To take advantage of different
materials.

Objectives
• To improve the oral comprehension and production.
• To use English as much as possible in and out the classroom.
• To accept mistakes as a way of learning.
• To create different situations to use English, giving tools
and materials to use it.
• To value the knowledge of foreign languages as a tool to
communicate among people.
• To enjoy English and the English classroom.
English Corners
Use your brain, use your pen!
. Grammar activities
. Phonetics and spelling

Listen and play, what a funny game!


. Speaking games
. Vocabulary

Computer’s corner!
. On-line games
. CD Rom

Books, books and more books!


. Reading
. Writing books

How to select the activities


in each corner
The activities must:
. Work the four skills: listening, speaking, reading and
writing.
. Allow the child to be autonomous.
. Self-correction.
. Take into account the pupils’ level.
. Motivating.
. Related with the contents worked in class.
. Work in group and couples.
Experience assessment
. Allows to attend the variety: adapting strategies
and sources to the characteristics, rhythms and
necessities of the pupils.
. Allows to take advantage of materials, routines
and linguistic skills related with games.
. Allows the autonomy: organisation, opinion, time
distribution, responsibility, self-correction.
. Allows the interaction.
. Motivating attitude.

Bibliography
. Holderness,J. and Hughes,A. “100 Ideas for Children”. Heinemann.
. Toth,M. “Children’s games”. Heinemann.
. Many authors. “Non-stop fun collection”. Ladybird books.
. Bryant,N. and Summers,R.”Spot what”.Hinkler books.
. Many authors. “I love English Junior”. Magazine. Bayard Revistas.
. Many authors. “The teacher’s magazine” Editorial Ediba.
. Jeffery,P. and McBeth, C. “Spotlight 1 and 2”. Oxford.
Date:
Name:
Opinion: very easy, easy, not very easy, difficult
Level:

1 or 2 
Corner Activity Opinion
(Right answers)
Use your 1. Grammar
brain, use 2. Phonetics
your pen!
Listen and 1. Speaking
play what a games
funny game! 2.Vocabulary
Computer’s 1. On line
corner games
2. CD Rom
Books, books 1. Reading
and more 2. Writing
books! books

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