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Speaking practice: My food habits We are now our Topic Based Learning by offering a speaking practice to improve our students' oral skills. This time we want to encourage our students by asking them to record an audio in Padlet speaking about their food habits. As all activities we need to prepare our students for the final outcome.  1 - Introduction to the oral activity: We will speak about the different parts of a short oral creation to provide students with the basic skills to create an adequate audio. Remember, we want students to get globalized skills, therefore, it is not only the learning of their English skills but also of their social skills which will helpful for many other context:  - Presentation of the speaker. - What is the purpose of the audio. - Main body of the audio. - Proper conclusion. 2 - Practice with the ICT to submit the activity: At this point, we should also make sure that our students understand how does Padlet work and how they can post an audio. Th...

Listening comprehension skills Topic based learning: The food groups To complete the Project Base Learning on healthy food and to cover the four basic language learning skills, we suggest an interactive listening comprehension activity using Edpuzzle where students can listen and pause the video, as well as reading to hear the phonetics and words. For the English learning, since it is a It is highly recommended t o connect words with its phonetic and spelling.  That is why this activity can provide students listening input with visual support to enhance the students' learning progress.  Therefore, for this activity we suggest the following steps: 1 - Preparation for the listening comprehension activity: By asking the students what they know about food groups, it is important that the class come up with the five different groups: fruits, vegetables, grains, proteins and dairy. Of course children will mention each food group in Spanish or Catalan (most likely), then we need to...

To improve our students reading skills can be motivating if we find topics that are connected to their personal lives and interests. Although some students might not feel like reading, we can engage students by offering them short texts rich in vocabulary and useful expressions that can be understandable by context.   As all reading comprehension activities we need to prepare a pre-work in order to facilitate students the correct guidelines to achieve the task objectives. For this reading, The Smiths' diet we suggest the following steps: 1 - Before the reading task:  A match up vocabulary task with Wordwall can be useful to warming up. Students need to contextualise the activity before fully enter into the main reading.  Match up vocabulary: "The Smiths' diet" 2 - During the reading task: Ask your students to read carefully the text, they should find new vocabulary that they can find it looking up in an on-line English to Spanish dictionary, as per example the one ...

Healthy recipe stickers: Eating healthy is a challenge nowadays, taking into consideration all the junk food around us.  This activity will not only boost our students' writing skills by sharing a healthy recipe of their choice with their mate but also, it will help them develop their critical thinking while learning about what foods are good to keep their mind and body on fire! Using the Topic Base Learning , this activity it is complementary with three other activities of the food block. It is fundamental to work in class the importance of keeping a balanced diet, mostly comprised by fresh fruits and vegetables, to avoid illnesses and obesity. It is a fact that the consumption of too much sugar and salt is not good for our health, and neither is to eat and drink to many french fries and soft drinks.  Needless to say that we should avoid fast-food! To boost your students' writing skills we should encourage our students to share their favourite healthy recipes with their mates...