“The earth laughs in flowers”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
After discovering the importance of flowers and the relationship between flowers and insects, we became quite curious about flowers! They are very beautiful but we do not know many of their names in our language…. imagine in English!
To discover some of the names, we were faced with a challenge… could we discover the name of some flowers by reading their descriptions?
We were not convinced at first, but we realized that reading a text in English is just a matter of putting into practice some simple strategies.
The first strategy, and quite obvious, is to identify the topic and activate the vocabulary that may appear. If we are reading about flowers… the flower parts must appear in the texts! To recall the vocabulary and familiarize with its written form (you know that English words are written very differently!), we played a game on the screen. It was very fun!
After, it was time to work in pairs to read the texts and match the names to the correct pictures. Knowing the parts of the flower and identifying words that we know very well like colours and numbers, we could do the activity with no important difficulties. Another strategy some of us used was finding words in catalan that are very similar to English!
As we discovered, it is not necessary to know all the words in a text to understand its general idea. Follow these strategies and try to name the flowers in the picture. It is not as difficult as it may seem!
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