In this activity, you will have to read the following test and later answer the question in the Google Forms below.
Bees in danger
There are
more than 19,000 species of bees around the world. Bees are insects which can
fly. Some bees, like honeybees, live in colonies. Other, solitary bees live
alone.
Honeybees
live in nests or hives. A colony has one queen bee, a few male drone bees, and
lots of female workers. Inside the colony, each bee has its own job to do. The
drones fertilize the queen so that she can produce eggs, and the queen lays
eggs. The worker bees collect pollen and nectar from plants.
Bees are
important for humans. They produce honey for us to eat, and wax to make candles
and furniture polish. More importantly, they are pollinators. They carry pollen
from one plant to another so that the plants can produce fruit.
The problem
is that bees are in danger. They are losing their habitats and some farming
chemicals are making them ill. If bees become extinct, many other plants and animals
will disappear, too.
It is
important to protect bees. We can help by giving bees space to live in our gardens
and parks. And we must reduce the chemicals we use in our agriculture. If bees disappear,
it is bad news for everybody.
Good morning Alicia,
ResponderEliminarI am your classmate Natalia Dominguez,
I have been reading your blog and in my opinion, It´s very interesting. The content is really strong and the blog is a great resources for teachers.
I would like to focus my remarks on this entry (https://learning-english-with-alicia.blogspot.com/search/label/Reading) about “Bees in danger”.
First, this activity is very simple, you have to read the information about bees and answer the test. In my opinion, when a teacher wants to make a plan for activities to exercise and improves the reading competence among their students. Teachers have to be aware of the different kind of reading skills that each kid has. It is not easy to learn English from scratch. I would recommend you include some pictures with the text. Sometimes we forget how hard it is to learn, but when you think like a child, you can empathise with them and therefore understand the difficulties they go through.
For this reason, I think this is a useful activity which will help the kids to understand and will provide them with an improved vocabulary with which to better understand the subject of bees (or any other topic). I consider the Google form very necessary to receive feedback from your students about the content.
If I were in your position, I would consider adding the following: an interactive map, those who read this entry can upload a photo or a squeme about the topic that we have work on and explain it. This way they will be involved and this work will help them to make a main map in their own mind and work their imagination, this will help them to have a complete idea of the text. In addition, they can work more English competences.
Thanks for your work!
Very good way to use Google Forms.
ResponderEliminarI like this idea to work on reading comprehension.
Thank you for your work!