Activities of "The very hungry caterpillar"

There are some activities that you can use in relation with The very hungry caterpillar, these activities are made before, while or after reading the book.

Before:

First talk with the children about worms and after about caterpillars.

Investigate about caterpillar: where they life, what they eat, how they grow,... We could see caterpillars, photos, videos,...

After the investigation we read "The very hungry caterpillar".

While:

We read the book, investigate with the children and we ask them about what happend in the book. Also we ask about:

- Is this caterpillar like others?

- Is good eat a lot of food?

- What happend with the caterpillar at the end of the story?

After:

We make a theatrical little perform with the children continuing the story.

Others activities:
We can have worms in class and see their live-cicle.
We play pretend to be caterpillars and we move as them. In this activity we can perform their life-cicle.
We see differents types of food and which are the best for the diet.

Second Language Acquisition and Learning

Methodology

Activity 2

1.- The different between Grammar- Translation Method and how to use the target language is that with the first one you can´t use the second language to communicate because it only teach you about the language and it grammar. For this reason Grammar-Translation Method is not so important.

2. - The difference between deductive and inductive treatment of grammar is that inductive use the teaching rules of grammar and the student finally target it. Deductive gives grammar and at the end activities are connected to the rules.

3. - None of hese techniques are from the principles of the Audio- Lingual Method, but the “b” one is closer to that method because the “a” and “b” option talk about Grammar Translation.

5. - The Total Physical Response characteristics are similar to the way how children acquire their native language, these are: the students learn language with input, the use of the imperative, the child relate the action so they imitate and at the beginning of the learning the student stay in silence.

7. - An example of a part of a plan with TPR is the next one: we want to teach different school material of the children with present simple and present continuous.  We play as “Simon´s says” and we said to the children: catch your pencil, catch your rubber, catch your scissors,… Then we said them put on the table you pencil, put on the table your rubber, put on the table your scissors,…  And at the end we will said the girls writes with pen and the boys cuts with the scissors, the girls cut with the scissors and the boys remove with the rubber,….

"Zog"

We´ll choose the book Zog to tell it to young children between 5 or 6 years old because it´s a good story, very funny and it´s very motivating. We thought that it´s better telling it instead of read it because it has difficult vocabulary so we´ll adapt it to this age. Other adaptation would be the large of the book so we´ll read it in two days.

With Zog children can improve their creativity and learn about different topics as a child do it in his life.

Reader of "Charlie and the chocolate factory"

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is about a child called Charlie who is a little boy that lives in a very small house with his parents and granparents.

Charlie loves chocolate, he would like to eat it everyday but his familiy haven´t got enough money to buy chocolate. For this reason, he looks forward to being his birthday because he´ll have a special present, that special gift is have a chocolate bar.

Although the wish of this boy is going to the chocolate´s factory that is close his house, he wants to visit it.

Children´s webside

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