let’s learn percentages
TRANSCRIPT
• This is a trial class because children in my school aren’t used to speak English while they are learning different subjects
• Despite of the fact that I know that Maths is the most difficult subject to do in English, I decided to do a Maths lesson because of the ICT resource I had chosen before.
• The first activtity has been very easy for them because we are working percentages in class by now.
• We have worked together at the beginning with the language support on the whiteboard
• After that they have started working in pairs and the could only use English.
• When they needed a colour pencil they asked for it to her mates using:
Can I borrow your... please?
Language scaffolding
How many squares do you paint?I paint .......... ............ squares.
50% --- We read 50 percent.2.5% --- We read two point five percent
DOMINO RULES
• With the language support on the whiteboard they played domino in 4 teams of 3.
• As they were putting a piece on the table they had to say one of the two sentences on the board.
• This activity was more difficult because they had to think and find the equivalence. This is the reason why I decided that they should work in teams.
DOMINO LANGUAGE
• It’s my turn• Pass• It’s your turn
• 50 percent is the same that 2 out of four.• 50 percent means that there are 50 green
figures.
THIRD ACTIVITY
• THE LEGEND OF DICK AND DOM
The activity was a computer game
• The ICT activity has been the last we have done and they have enjoyed a lot because they could understand the whole idea to complete the activity and computer games always encourage children
• The experience was good. Children have understood that they could use English as a communication tool and despite of the fact the content was a bit difficult they have used English to ask for help and to express the results of the different activities.
• The best activity fir them has been the “domino”. They started talking English to justify why their domino was the right option.
• We were working for 50 minutes and children were satisfied and they would like to stay more time. I think this is and important fact to consider that is adequate for them