TEACHING & LEARNING ENGLISH WITH FUN

On 21st March we celebrate World Puppetry Day!! Feel free to resort to pyppet-led storytelling or puppet-building activities because they create possibilities for creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, curiosity!. Due to their lightweight body full of movement and their extra ordinary mouth action, puppets are great for use in classrooms to bring our stories into life, engage role playing, trigger story telling activities, infuse elements from different cultures and countries into your lessons, practice speaking and listening skills. Finger puppets, glove puppets, rod puppets, shadow puppets, hand and rod puppet, hand and glove puppet, marionette, ventriloquist figures and stop action puppets can offer a wide variety of activities in your lessons! Give them a try! Hand puppet Shadow puppets Stick puppets Finger puppets Glove puppets Hand puppets Finger puppets String puppets String puppets Hand puppets Glove p...

Let's dramatize a classical literary fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen!! The ugly duckling You may use handmade craft stick-puppets in order to act out the tale and help your students enrich their vocabulary on adjectives. You may even use this activity to teach the comparative and superlative form relatively to each stage of the tale. Young and Ugly! Still Ugly!!  However, the main target of this activity will be to focus on subjects like acceptance , being different , determination , identity , assimilation , beauty standards , equality . Teachers should encourage students to express themselves and make an analogy between the duckling's feelings and their own possible ones. Students should make sentences using the verbs thinks and looks to talk about feelings and appearance. Thinks - Looks The process of transformation Good Luck, Maria P.

Puppets in English Teaching.. Our Snow white hates apples!! Use Snow white and the dwarfs in order to teach new vocabulary and adjectives in a recreational way. Puppets can be used as an effective teaching aid which can facilitate the learning process. Moreover,  in this way you motivate your students to come up with stories and use the puppets to portray the different characters. So your students can pick up a dwarf or Snow white, come up with different voices for each character, mimic the actions, act out imaginary scenes and develop their social and motor skills while consolidating their vocabulary. Puppets in English Teaching Doc knows better! Good Luck, Maria P.