Hope you like and enjoy our unit

Hello to everyone!  We are a group of four members that are studying in the University of La Laguna, Tenerife. Our names are Víctor, Alois, Jessica and Juan Pedro and we are studying to be an English Teacher. For this reason, we have created this Blog 'English for Kids' so that we can publish our work.

The main idea is to focus on the education of English as a second language using TICS. We want to show how important this tool can be to motivate children and acquire English Learning in a different way. Internet offers a lot of information about everything and that's why our children have to adapt themselves to the new society and be educated in a sensible way so that they can manage to develop the Digital Key Competence.

We want to share with all of you our English Unit : In Space. Our goal is to work astronomy with children in a didactic way to encourage them to work with the new technologies to solve homeworks or problems and learn at the same time.

If you want to help or if you need any tools, don´t doubt contacting with us. Any advice or suggestion will be accepted in any case.

Thank you very much

Introduction

Hello boys and girls!!!!!!!!! How are you??

Let´s start our unit In Space.

This is a presentation activity. You have to solve the puzzle  and then listen to the song and try remember all the planets that you hear.

So click on this link and do the activity:

learnenglishkids.britishcouncil.org/en/songs/flying-the-sun-the-stars

Discover the Solar System

In group of three pupils and using the link below, describe a planet and make a short description. Then, the class must guess your planet. Finally, publish your descriptions as comments in this post. 

   

http://www.solarsystemscope.com/scope.php

What do you Know about Space?

Now we are going to do a test about your knowledge about Space.

You have to choose the right option in each question.

So go to this webpage and do the test:

http://www.educaplay.com/es/recursoseducativos/570522/what_do_you_know_about_space_.htm

Let´s play some games!!!!!!!!! :)

Hello again!!

Let´s do a wordsearch! You have to find all words as fast as you can. There is a record list you must break.

Go to this webpage:

http://www.educaplay.com/es/recursoseducativos/568349/wordsearch.htm

After that, let´s play another game!!! Link the nouns with their descriptions:

http://www.educaplay.com/es/recursoseducativos/568368/linking_nouns_and_descriptions.htm



Have Fun!!!!

Comic

1.Listen and read the comic.

                        

                              

 

  

2. Act it out!!! 

Read and write an email

1.Read the email that Tom send to Pedro Duque, the first Spanish astronaut.

From: Tom@yahoo.es

To: pedroduque@gmail.com

Subject: I have questions for you…

Dear Pedro, My name is Tom and I want to be an astronaut like you. My dream is to pilot a rocket through space and visit other planets. I love space. I have a telescope to see the stars but it’s only a hobby.   Do you think that we can go to other galaxies to meet extraterrestrial? About it, I want to know: are there any aliens or UFO’s in space? I think so. Anyway I want to go to the N.A.S.A to see rocks and meteors from other planets. Thank you for your reply. Best wishes Tom

2.Go to your e-mail account and write an e-mail to Pedro Duque,
use the example of Tom’s e-mail

From:
To: Pedroduque@gmail.com
Subject:

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Complete the text

You have learned a lot with this unit.

Now you are going to show your knowledge doing this activity.

Click the link down here to see the exercise:

http://www.educaplay.com/es/recursoseducativos/570300/complete_the_text.htm

Try to complete the text using the word written below.

Good luck!

Do your own galaxy

To finish this unit we are going to create our own constellation.

Look this link:

http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/starfinder/

Your work will be shown  in our classroom.

Hope you enjoy it!