PERSONAL INTERVIEW 1: 100 QUESTIONS

CARD 1 1. Are you a good dancer? 2. Are you a vegetarian? 3. Are you the oldest among your brothers and sisters? 4. At what times do you usually eat your meals (breakfast, lunch, and dinner)? 5. Can you play any musical instruments? 6. Can you ride a motorcycle? 7. Could you live in another country for the rest of your life? 8. Do you always eat dinner with your family? 9. Do you cook? If yes, what is food that you cook the most? 10. Do you do exercise? 11. Do you drive a car often? 12. Do you eat bread every day? 13. Do you eat breakfast every day?14. Do you eat fruit every day? 15. Do you have a car? 16. Do you have any pets? If not, would you like to have a pet? 17. Do you have difficulty with school work? 18. Do you like British food? 19. Do you like food from other countries? If yes, which do you like the most?

CARD 2 1. Do you prefer listening to the radio or watching TV? 2. Do you prefer to eat at a restaurant or at home? 3. Do you prefer to travel alone or in a group? Why? 4. Do you prefer travelling by car or by plane? 5. Do you prefer your own country's food or other kinds of food? 6. Do you see your relatives at Christmas time? 7. Do you sing while taking a bath? 8. Do you smoke? 9. Do you think playing sports helps people work better as a team at work? 10. Do you use an alarm clock to wake up? 11. Do you use English a lot? 12. Do you usually want to eat dessert after dinner? 13. Do you watch your weight? What foods do you think are healthy? 14. Do you work? 15. Does your family have any special Christmas traditions? 16. Have you ever been on a diet? If so, how long did you stayed on it? 17. Have you ever celebrated Christmas in a foreign country? 18. Have you ever lived in another country? 19. How do you get to school?

CARD 3 1. How many hours of sleep do you usually get? 2. How many times have you travelled by airplane? 3. How old are you? 4. How old are your brothers and sisters? 5. How old were you when you got your first job? 6. If you smoke, how old were you when you started smoking? 7. What are some good ways to learn English? 8. What are some popular foods for the Christmas season? 9. What are your hobbies? 10. What countries have you visited? 11. What countries would you like to visit? Why? 12. What countries would you not like to visit? Why? 13. What country are you from? 14. What do you and your family like to do together? 15. What do you do on Sundays? 16. What do you do? What's your job? 17. What does your father do? 18. What does your mother do? 19. What food do you hate? Why do you hate it?

CARD 4 1. What is your favourite TV programme? 2. What is your favourite website? 3. What kind of beverages do you usually drink? 4. What kind of car do you have? 5. What kind of exercise do you do? 6. What kind of movies do you like? 7. What kind of music do you like? 8. What languages do you speak? 9. What sports do you like to play? 10. What will you do on Christmas Day? 11. What's there to do in your hometown? 12. What's your address? 13. What's your hometown like? 14. What's your name? 15. When did you start to study English? 16. When was the last time you ate at a restaurant? 17. When was the last time you went to a concert? 18. Where are you from? 19. Where did you go for your last holidays?

Education

THE CREATIVE CLASSROOM

• What do you understand by "being creative"?
• Can a teacher assisstant be creative? How?
• What do you need to be creative in a class?
• What are the gains for a child when the teacher is creative?
• Have you visited a pre-primary school where the general atmosphere was "creative"?
• Can you think of an activity that will be labelled as "creative" in a class?

IMPROVING LEARNING

• What is a lesson plan?
• In what areas does the teacher need to work to improve learning in a  class? (behaviour, environment,expectations, material,activities, etc.) Slide  6  Unit 2
• What does the teacher need to do the first days of class? (Slide 7 Unit  2)
• Why games are a great way to teach children?
• What activities do you consider to be attractive for children?
• How will you organize a class?
• What questions do you need to ask yourself before using a material with children?

TOOLS/RESOURCES

• What are some tools a teacher/teacher assisstant  needs to give good instruction?
• What do you consider not good tools/ resources? Why?
• Is money/ budget important in a school?
• Do u need a lot of tools/resources to teach young children?
• Is it important for a good professional to keep updated?
• What are some characteristics a person working with children should have?

L2 ACQUISITION / LEARNING

• What is acquisition/learning?
• What is concious learning and unconcious learning?
• Does knowing the grammar of a language mean that  a person  can speak a language?
• Are there some stages in the learning/acquisition process of a language?
• what is the best age to learn a language?
• It is impossible for a students to learn a language when he/she gets old?

EDUCATION

• What are the qualities of a good student?
• What are the qualities of a good teacher?
• What is your favorite class?What was (or is) your favorite subject? Why do you like it?
• Do you think your teachers give too much homework?
• Why do you think people want to work in the education area?
• What do you think of home-schooling?
• Does education guarantee a good job?

Questions adapted and adopted from englishonline

ENGLISH

• Why are you studying a foreign language?
• Why is it helpful to learn a Second language ?
• What are some good ways to learn English?
• Why is it sometimes very difficult to speak another language?
• Would you consider studying abroad?

Questions adapted and adopted from englishonline

Songs

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Hands on activities

Personal Placemats (Individual activity). Lesson Food/Eating healthy

Materials: Clear contact paper (many, many uses for this so buy a big roll).  Large sheet of art paper about 12 X 14 inches, paint or crayons.

Description: The child draws/sticks veggie pictures on both sides of the paper (if you a using sloppy paints use 2 sheets and secure them back to back with tape), colour the pictures  and laminate them. 

• Other possibilities: holidays/animals/ colours, older children can use Wrapping paper to make Holiday placemats for everyone in the family !, etc.

Adopted from preschoolrainbow.org

Recycling activity: Bottle Cap Mandala 

(Class activity/Whole school) This is a project where the whole class/school works together to make one giant mandala made out of bottle caps and any other suitable ‘waste’ objects (creating a group mandala is a unifying experience in which students can express themselves individually within a unified structure).

Materials: As many bottle caps as the class can collect. Examples include the plastic caps that come on plastic bottles, some milk/juice cartons, aerosol cans and vitamin jars; jar lids; and the steel caps that come on beer bottles and some glass soft drink bottles. Other small ‘waste’ or recyclable objects that you think are suitable, such as, small yoghurt pot lids, small rigid pieces of plastic, etc.

Description: 1. Choose a mandala design and print it out on a piece of paper so that the whole class/school can refer to it as a guide. 2. Sort the bottle caps and other objects into groups determined by their colour. 3. On a clear area of the floor or ground, build your mandala by arranging the differently-coloured objects in accordance with the design. 

• Other possibilities: beach rock mandala,  sand mandala, personal mandala (incorporate all the things that you find personally comforting like: favorite colors, pictures, items, etc. Gather them together and layout them out in the form of a wheel within the basic mandala structure), etc.

The size of your mandala will depend on how many objects the class/school was able to collect. Ultimately, the mandala will be dismantled. You might want to take a photo of the mandala and the class before dismantling! 
Recycle as many of the objects as you can and dispose responsibly of the rest. 

Adopted from schoolsrecycle.planetark.org

Carla Canencia Jellyfish

Materials: A plastic plate , ribbons of different colors and shapes, glue and cardboard.

Description:

With ribbons of different colors and various types the kids can create the tentacles of jellyfish.

Children below should stick labels onto plastic plate .

Finally, can make the eyes of  jellyfish  with cardboard.

Activity of the jellyfish

Michelle Inga  Trick-or-Treat Bag

Materials:

• Canvas tote bag (sold at local craft stores)
• Tempera paints (Halloween colors)
• Paintbrush
• Paper plates
• Scissors
• Wiggle eyes, felt, glitter, buttons, or other decorative materials
• Fabric glue
• Newspaper

Description:

• Lay newspaper over your work area in case of spills.
• Pour a bit of paint on a paper plate.
• Have your child decorate the bag with paintings of witches, black cats, pumpkins and ghosts, using her fingers, handprints or paintbrushes.
• Add any other designs or decorative items on the bag.
• Let the bag dry completely - then fill it with treats on Halloween!

Halloween candy bag

WEBGRAPHY & BIBLOGRAPHY

-Material from course Crif "Las Acacias " Rodolfo Muñoz, Noemí León  June 2016
-Basic language activities
-The Creative Classroom
-Promoting Communication  

ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES

• What is assessment?

SONGS, RHYMES AND TALES

• VIDEO What to read to a child. The Different Genres