Clara, Patricia, Beatriz, Jessica, Filipa, Inês, Carolina, Duarte, Oliver and Tiago (from left to right)
I felt that his year's theme for the 10
to 12 years old should be "travelling around the world", once it would
allow them not only to learn words related to a wide variety of
nationalities, religions and even the fauna of those particular
countries, but also get acquainted with the various traditional
costumes, as well as to learn to locate the selected countries in a
world map and identify their flags.
As
we "made our way" towards the different continents we "travelled"
through India, Rajasthan and Sri Lanka, before heading to Guatemala
and a brief stop in the African continent.
I had them see some photos I had taken in
my previous trips before each of them was given an artistic assignment -
some of the girls had to colour and assemble paper puppet dolls from
India, whilst the others would use scratching techniques to build fairly
intricate "artistic works" associated with the forest. The boys, on the
other hand would have to assemble 3D animals, some of which had around
one hundred pieces.
Clara with her finished paper puppet doll from India.
Most of the children had already been to
my courses the year before so I knew what to focus on if I wanted to
take the utmost advantage of their skills.
Prior
to having them watch an extract of a very interesting film (with
subtitles in English) on the difficulties some children have to face to
reach and eventually attend school in their countries, which in this
case were Kenya, Morocco and Patagonia I handed each of them an abridged
story of a different child each, which we worked on in terms of
vocabulary, grammatical structure and content.
I don't think they remembered what it used to be like being in class with me, as most of them left in a state of utter tiredness ... or maybe it was just because it was Monday ... and they had "lost" touch with the working rhythm ... but all in all it was a fairly active morning ...
(To be continued)
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