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Jazz
chants
- What are Jazz chants?
Jazz Chants are snappy, rhythmical poems and rhymes that can be said with a swinging
rhythm, something similar to rap.
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Who is considered the creator?
Carolyn Graham
- Who is she?
She is the author of a
lot of English Language Teaching books and also the head of develop the
technique of jazz chanting through her
own experience.
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How can we create a
useful and real jazz chant?
To create a Jazz Chant
you have to follow some steps:
1.
Pick a topic, as food, clothes, sports, parts of
the body…
2.
Write down ten words, related with the topic you choose
before.
3.
Separate words by syllables according to the sounds.
4.
Now…You are ready!
Example:
Le-mon (2 syllables)
Ba-na-na (3 syllables)
Apple (1 syllable)
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These are some of the examples of Jazz chants:
In my opinion, Jazz Chants are a very successfully way
to teach children something. Why? Because
through it, the children can learn easily the contents in a funny and
entertaining way. Jazz Chant can be so useful like a working tool for the
teachers because if the students are motivated, the work of the teachers is
easier. And also, the teachers have fun with their students.
What do you think about Jazz chants? Do you agree with
me?
SNOWHITE
First of all,
we thought to represent the story of three little pigs. Why? Because can be a
good story to play and have fun with the children because of the customs of the
pigs and the different houses.
Then, we had
to change it because another group chooses the same topic, so we decided to
choose SNOWHITE. And why? Because we thought is a typical activity that all the
students know it.
HOW TO PREPARE
IT?
1. To think about the different activities that we can do
with the children in order to have a good scaffolding.
2. To choose who represent the different characters.
3. To buy the materials.
4. To prepare the customs and all the activities.
5. To meet all together to practice it.
6. And…We are prepared to represent it!
WHAT ABOUT THE
ACTIVITIES?
Pre-knowledge
activity
In the first
activity we introduce our characters. How? Through questions like:
·
Who am I?
·
Am good or bad?
·
Do you know how I do?
Storytelling
and puzzle
After the
warmer activity, we read a short story of Snowhite in which the students have
to imitate the gestures and movements that we do. This activity is a way to
understand better the vocabulary of the story because some words can be
difficult for them.
Another
activity was the puzzle. Here, we needed some volunteers so we asked: Any
volunteer? And in the most of the cases they replayed yes. If ever there was
not volunteers we chose the children so that all were involved. This activity
consist on organize the different pieces of the puzzle in the correct order. If
the children put in the correct order it means that they understand the story,
if they don’t we try to explain with simple words.
Quiz time
We organize
the class into two groups (group A and group B). Then, we asked questions about
the story as:
·
What is the fruit that Snowhite eat?
a. Orange
b. Apple
c. Pineapple
·
Where do Snowhite live?
a. In a castle.
b. In a school.
c. In a hospital.
·
Who are the friends of Snowhite?
a. The prince
b. The witch
c. The 7 dwarfs
·
The color of the prince’s horse is…:
a. White.
b. Blue.
c. Black.
After the
quiz, the group who had more correct answers got a little present that is an
apple. But all the children have participated deserve a prize so we gave them a
bookmark with the different dwarfs on it.
What do you
think about the activities? Do you like it? Can we improve anything?
And here you
have something related with our story…
The modern
Snowhite!!
ENJOY IT J
Do you like the song?
I hope you
enjoy it.
Kisseeeeeess
Inma. J
FAIRY TALE
To start the post is important to know…..
- What is a fairy tale?
A fairy tale is a short story that can contain
characters as gnomes, giants, goblins, elves, fairies, elves, dwarves, mermaids
and also enchantments.
At the beginning of the class, when the teacher said
“fairy tale” I don’t have idea of what is, but when she started to comment I
can understand.
Said this, I want to talk about the activity that we
have done in class. The first of all is that the teacher asked everyone what
fairy tale they want to be and why they choose it. Is this relevant? Of course
yes, because through this question the teacher can know something more about
the student. Before this activity, the teacher told us that we have to create
our own fairy tale with a web page. And about this activity I want to comment
some things:
I have no doubt, that the activity has a lot of
scaffolding.
Through it, the students can learn more about the TIC’s
because they use the computers. It is so important also because the teacher can
know how the student is. Why? Because, imagine that a child write something
related with a bad man who kill people and things like that…This child can have
some problems because it is not normal that a child think this type of things
(but not always happened), I mean, that we can “analyze” the character,
personality, feelings or the way to think of the students.
Another important point (and is possible it is the most important for
the children) is that the students have a very good time creating this
activity, because it is so funny and enjoyable.
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