Hello friends!
On Wednesday we continued developing personal language skills, focus on shifting sentence stress. Definitely, intonation is more important than grammar in the communication. We practiced with exercises to make sense of spelling and pronunciation and connected speech. When native English speakers speak naturally their words are not separate, they join together. This can make listening difficult as it is often unclear where one words ends and another word begins. It can also change the sounds of words. In the afternoon, we talked about film as an English language resource.
When we finished the lessons, our family was waiting for us to visit Worcester College. It might not be the most famous one in Oxford, but it has a serenity and seriousness that are enchanting. We made the most of our time visiting Ashmolean Museum, Magdalen College and taking cream tea, including scones served with clotted cream and jam.
Today we've been debating and understanding concepts of Content and Language Integrated Learning. Previously, we expected to getting bored because of the matter used to be explained in a too much theoric way. However, we've explored this methodology through practical exercises, buildings meaningful learning with clear objectives: content aims, language aims and learning skills. It was fantastic!
After lunch, Catherine made a funny test about life and culture in UK today. In this way, she checked our knowledge about some interesting questions and curiosities about British people.
Goodbye!
