Let´s be consistent!

Hi! How are you? I have decided to talk about the literature on the screen. Last classes were useful to comprehend the importance of films in the school. During the school, children saw the films as a prize. In our class, we could understand that films can be a good resource to learn English.

First of all, we remember how we worked with the films when we were children. The opinions were similar and we were accord with teachers employed films as a prize when the students had finished the activity.

After that, we saw Mulan and when we finished the film, we had to answer some questions relate to the film. 

We thought about the films that we had seen with teachers and we shared our opinions about the use of films.

So, in my opinion, the most important part of the activity was to organize the advantages of using films in a classroom according to 4cs. We had to relate the characteristics with the 4cs and I think that it was useful to understand the use of the films. As teacher, we should to relate our subject with CLIL strategies to improve the English level in our class.

Finally, we answered some questions relate to the film. Each group was the responsible of a question and when all the groups finished, we had to put in common the ideas. I think that it was a great summary of the film because the questions were focused on the role of men, the role of woman, the role of the family, the role of elderly people, violence, success, the bad characters, china´s situation and the moral of the story. With these questions, we could to distinguish the main factors of the film.

Relate to the roles, I have decided to include a part of the film that it is present the role of the women in China:

Role of the women in China

Thanks to this class, we have checked the different uses of a film in a class. In my opinion, I think that this class had been useful to reflect about films because we should to know the importance of use films. I think that as teachers, we have to include this tool as something productive and not as a prize!

Let's be consistent!

Cinderella is coming!

During the childhood, I think that all the children have seen Disney´s movies. For this reason, I consider that it´s an interesting topic to talk about Cinderella story because there are different versions and I think that only one is focused on children: The Perrault´s version.

First of all, in class we taught about Cinderella´s story. It was fantastic because with the help in group, we could remember the characters, the events and the end of the story.

In my opinion, this activity had an objective: To distinguish between the two stores, the Grimm´s version and Perrault´s version. As teachers, I think that it is necessary to look for one adapted version to share with our pupils.

During the class, we read the two versions and in my opinion, the two stories change notably. I think that there is a main difference between the stories, the years.

In Perrault version, Cinderella was advised by her stepmother and she will help to Cinderella during the book until Cinderella will be married with the prince. In the other case, Grimm´s brothers said that Cinderella is advised by a bird.

By other part, there is other big difference between the final of the stories. In Perrault´s version, the sisters will have a punishment while in the other story, Cinderella is comprehensive and she absolves their sister.

In summary, both stories are different by the years and the age. I mean, I think that Perrault´s version is more adapted for children and it´s written in other way by the difference between the years.