Parts of the Body

As many of you know, “The part of the body” is one the most common topics worked in the classroom, especially for those students who has got a very basic level of English.

The activity below consists in a word search, focused in this topic. The main idea of this activity is to let the students practice about what they are learning, improve the new vocabulary and of course let them make some mistakes to correct them as many times as they need.

Most of you could think that it is a very basic one, but we have to consider that we are working with children that are not exposed to English every day, and they just start getting into the English language as foreign learners. From this point of you, the activity should work as an isolated one, because the students could not manage the proper level to elaborate grammatical tenses related with the topic we are reviewing. In this case it would depend on the teacher abilities to incorporate another “helping processes” in order to connect the topic selected with some special features of English language. For instance, I did this activity for children of 8 years old in primary education and I make them work in pairs and solve the activity sharing the knowledge that they got during the class. Once they had developed the activity I asked them for the correct pronunciation of each word that they had written; of course, I had in mind that they were just children, so I was not asking them for the academic articulation of each sound, but I was expecting that they were wide open to produce the sounds as pure as they could and for my happiness they had a very good performance, because children are always willing to learn if we know how to incorporate the abilities in function of their needs and context.

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