1. STARTING SONG
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Emphasize that the English class is beginning with a rite that will be repeated in every class.
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Mess up the class and make room in the center of it
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The children take off their shoes
3. EMOTIONAL VIDEO
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This activity is meant for the students to empathize with the characters
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Generate curiosity to understand the character's emotions in the videos.
5. MOVE YOUR HIPS
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Through this activity we expect to let the children’s bodies move freely after staying seated.
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To listen to a song in English that will promote immersion and will help the students start identifying the sounds of the English language.
7. ENDING SONG
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The idea is to finish the English class with a closing rite that the kids will memorize through repetition.
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Also, it's time to put on their shoes again and organize the class.
2. GAME
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It is a transitional game between the starting song and the activity that comes next.
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At the end of the game, children should be sitting in a circle in the middle of the room.
4. STORYTELLING
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Let the children listen to a story in English
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With the help of your body language, try to understand something about the meaning of the story, which will be connected, in some way, to a scene from a previous video.
6. HARMONY TIME
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The purposes of this activity are: to familiarize the students with yoga practices and meditation in English; make the students conscious of time and place and aware of how they can use their bodies.
1. STARTING SONG
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Emphasize that the English class is beginning with a rite that will be repeated in every class.
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Mess up the class and make room in the center of it
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The children take off their shoes
3. EMOTIONAL VIDEO
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This activity is meant for the students to empathize with the characters
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Generate curiosity to understand the character's emotions in the videos.
5. MOVE YOUR HIPS
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Through this activity we expect to let the children’s bodies move freely after staying seated.
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To listen to a song in English that will promote immersion and will help the students start identifying the sounds of the English language.
7. ENDING SONG
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The idea is to finish the English class with a closing rite that the kids will memorize through repetition.
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Also, it's time to put on their shoes again and organize the class.
2. GAME
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It is a transitional game between the starting song and the activity that comes next.
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At the end of the game, children should be sitting in a circle in the middle of the room.
4. STORYTELLING
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Let the children listen to a story in English
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With the help of your body language, try to understand something about the meaning of the story, which will be connected, in some way, to a scene from a previous video.
6. HARMONY TIME
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The purposes of this activity are: to familiarize the students with yoga practices and meditation in English; make the students conscious of time and place and aware of how they can use their bodies.
1. STARTING SONG
-
Emphasize that the English class is beginning with a rite that will be repeated in every class.
-
Mess up the class and make room in the center of it
-
The children take off their shoes
3. EMOTIONAL VIDEO
-
This activity is meant for the students to empathize with the characters
-
Generate curiosity to understand the character's emotions in the videos.
5. MOVE YOUR HIPS
-
Through this activity we expect to let the children’s bodies move freely after staying seated.
-
To listen to a song in English that will promote immersion and will help the students start identifying the sounds of the English language.
7. ENDING SONG
-
The idea is to finish the English class with a closing rite that the kids will memorize through repetition.
-
Also, it's time to put on their shoes again and organize the class.
2. GAME
-
It is a transitional game between the starting song and the activity that comes next.
-
At the end of the game, children should be sitting in a circle in the middle of the room.
4. STORYTELLING
-
Let the children listen to a story in English
-
With the help of your body language, try to understand something about the meaning of the story, which will be connected, in some way, to a scene from a previous video.
6. HARMONY TIME
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The purposes of this activity are: to familiarize the students with yoga practices and meditation in English; make the students conscious of time and place and aware of how they can use their bodies.
PEDAGOGICAL CONVICTIONS
Estimated time: 20'
Report vs. Check:
Frequency
Objectives
The objectives of this nano-course are:
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Understand the importance and effectiveness of repetition of work routines as a strategy to achieve language acquisition.
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Understand how the model of frequency is different from traditional school methods.
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Understand how the model of frequency works in the Vivadi Program, how and why was it thought and what will your role be as a teacher.
We suggest you re-visit these objectives when you complete the course!
Introduction:
Start from scratch
What do we mean by frequency?
Why do we choose frequency as a pillar of our pedagogical structure?
We believe that the school fails because it has a mistaken didactic approach to teaching English. Language is treated like other regular subjects, for example, geography or mathematics, and in fact, it needs a totally different pedagogical treatment. Our differential focuses on our innovative pedagogical approach. And this innovative approach is based on the idea of frequency instead of the idea of workload.
We agree with the schools that the workload that English occupies in the curriculum is too small to be able to provide real learning that allows the communicative use of the English language. In addition, we believe that immersion in the language is the best way to acquire it as a communicative tool. On the other hand, we know that families in Brazil are struggling so that their children can learn the language, either by sending them to institutes outside school hours, learning to somehow teach them or exposing English content in the home environment.
In this way, we think that this effort that families are making today is a potential for the program that we can not afford to lose. According to the idea of immersion, we will ask parents to expose their children to English content at least once a day. We believe that it is a matter of frequency rather than a matter of workload. The acquisition of English with a minimum workload represents a spasmodic teaching system in contrast with the intensity that immersion can provide. And we have already realized that this is not the way to acquire the language.
Therefore we propose a system of intense and constant frequency (a little every day) because we have the conditions to achieve this goal.
Mindfulness exercise:
Harmony
Concept Videos
It's showtime
Call to action
Into the wild
Encourage yourself to get in touch with some English every day. You can choose to watch a movie in English, or listen to a playlist of songs, read an article or a magazine, listen to a podcast, etc.
It’s important that you do it every day for a whole week! To remember, you can set an alarm on your phone, put a sticky note somewhere you will always see it, or you can set the Vivadí wallpaper on your phone.
Self-Assessment
A look in the mirror
You, and only you, can really grasp the understanding of this nano-course's main concepts. We invite you to complete this self evaluation and see it for yourself.