- Docente: Richard Rice
- Credits: 8
- SSD: L-LIN/12
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Primary Teacher Education (cod. 5711)
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from Feb 14, 2025 to May 08, 2025
Learning outcomes
Basic notions for the teaching of English in an Italian primary school setting
Course contents
This optional course offers a practcal introduction to the basic techniques needed the teaching English in a primary school situation. The course will look at objectives and the relevant methodology providing many practical examples of activity with particular reference to the use of force skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing and play-based activities that help children learn and reinforce new vocabulary and structures. We will also be looking at that approaches such as the use of storytelling, nursery rhymes, "arts and crafts" and drama.
Above all the course sets out to provide a series of activities that teacher can directly apply in the classroom- enjoyable basic activities to help teachers with their first steps in their new career.
Readings/Bibliography
For the course:
First Steps; Richard Rice . CLUEB
For practical teaching :
Young Learners – Sarah Phillips, OUP, this book is extremely practical and full of ideas for teaching
Another extremely valid practical book is 500 activities for the primary classroom by Carol Read published by Macmillan
Teaching methods
Workshop. presentaion of teaching activities followed by discussion/analysis of various practical activities.
Assessment methods
The end of course written exam will consist of the preparation of a typical primary school lesson or CLIL activity which reflects the activities and techniques that have been met during the course.
We remind you that a student will have to have at least 75% attendance in order to particiapte in the final exam
In order to take the final exam istudenst should enrol on Alma Esami within the prescibed deadline. Anyone who is unable to enrol due to technical difficuties before the prescribed date should communicate the probem to the "segretaria didattica" as soon as possible, before the closing date for enrolments. It will be up to the course lecturer to accept the enrollment. If you fail the exam it is possibe to try again in the same exam session should there be another available date.
the final mark will be out of thirty
Teaching tools
white board/projector/handouts/slides
Office hours
See the website of Richard Rice