"Plaza Hotel" στα Αγγλικά από το English Theatre Club

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End-of-Year Play by A Junior

Click on the image to watch the video on YouTube.

We said "goodbye" to our young learners (A Junior) through a short journey to fantasy worlds inhabited by elves and fairies (video).

Snapshots from our School Trip!

The gleaming entrance hall of Megaro Mousikis.

Finally the students of Knock English met Cinderello last Thursday and enjoyed every minute of it. It is always a wonderful sight to see students having a good time and, perhaps more importantly, being highly responsive and completely at ease in an English-speaking environment!


Below you can see snapshots from the lovely performance and the students' participation both on and off stage.

Let's all sing Lambrini's song!

Lambrini, inspired by a song in the B Junior coursebook, wrote her very own lyrics about her likes and dislikes. She even accompanied her assignment with a cute little alien seemingly dancing to the upbeat music of the song. Lambrini manages to prove that, indeed, writing is lots of fun! 

Περισσότερες πληροφορίες για τη Θεατρική Ομάδα εδώ: 
http://www.englishtheatreclub.com

Knock English students meet Cinderello!

As you all know, on Thursday 28th January the students of Knock English will meet Cinderello, a boy in desperate need of their help, through an engaging interactive performance in English.

The play is about the predicament of this poor boy, bullied by his awful sisters and stepmother and lurching from one adventure to the other. 

Given that the play is performed entirely in English, the cognitive and language benefits are so many it is hard to know where to begin. 

First of all, part of the performance is interactive, meaning that the audience will be participating as well, rather than passively watching the play. This, in turn, translates into rigorous speaking practice and development of communication skills along with the listening skills. 

Secondly, by exposing children to an English-speaking environment other than that of the classroom, we can achieve our two-fold purpose. Varying our teaching approaches and constantly providing our classes with diverse stimuli and learning opportunities helps us cater to any differences in our pupils' learning styles (kinesthetic, visual, auditory, etc). What's more, we believe that kids will have the chance to reinforce past knowledge while at the same time being introduced to new vocabulary and language structures more naturally - learning without realising it!

But this school trip's purpose goes far beyond language instruction, since an additional goal of ours is to help students also grow as persons and provide them with a well-rounded education.

By following Cinderello's story, children will learn first-hand about how we can muster the courage and strength to face our problems or fears head-on, thus overcoming all obstacles that come our way. We are confident that the morale of the story will be immediately internalised by students, and better yet, reflected in their lives later on.

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Our Digital School Magazine - December 2015

Our first-ever digital school ‪magazine‬ (December 2015) is finally ready! You can find it published at http://issuu.com/knockenglish/docs/knock_english_-_school_magazine__de . Or you can just click on the image below. 

Christmas in the UK - Our Poster

Our goal this month was to introduce pupils to some key vocabulary and a few fun facts about how Christmas is celebrated in the UK. What better way to achieve this than by decorating our classroom with a related poster! 

This way, students not only get to expand their vocabulary through visual prompts, but they also familiarise themselves with the British customs and traditions associated with this special celebration.

Did you know...? Click to enlarge.

Labelled pictures.

British history, customs and traditions in relation to Christmas. Click to enlarge.

Making a Nativity scene with our Prejuniors

In one of our last lessons with Prejunior just before the school breaks up for Christmas, we decided to teach our young learners some Christmas vocabulary in a more experiential way - through craft-making. 

Watching a video on the whiteboard while making crafts.

Colouring parts of the Nativity scene.

Working quietly in pairs.

Snapshot of our craft: the three Magi offering their gifts to baby Jesus.

  

  

My Ideal Neighbourhood, by Elias & Cleo

After being introduced to fictitious stories, B Junior students were asked to write about an ideal neighbourhood. Here you will have the chance to learn more about what Elias and Cleo's ideal neighbourhoods look like.

It is our firm belief that assigning such tasks (familiar, yet imaginative; simple, yet challenging) helps spur pupils' imagination and boost their creativity - two traits that prove highly valuable in school and later on in life.

My Superhero, by Alexander

When Alexander had to write about Spiderman, he decided to accompany his assignment with a drawing of his favourite superhero. Like many of his classmates, Alexander is a young artist in the making, don't you agree?

A hamster, a dog and our A Juniors...

Last week, Ann presented her writing project 'My Pets' in class... along with her pets in the flesh! 

What's even more surprising, though, is that Ann is a Junior A student! Only two months into our A Junior course, students are not only familiarised with the alphabet, but they are also perfectly able to read and write small assignments like this one. To top it all, our pupils were highly engaged and enthusiastic throughout their first-ever writing project and thoroughly enjoyed it. 

Ann (A Junior) presenting her project and little Barney in class.

Ann's project "My Pets". Click on the image to enlarge it.

Barney in the flesh!

A hamster, another cute furry visitor in Knock English.

Την περασμένη βδομάδα, η Ann παρουσίασε στα Αγγλικά την εργασία της 'Τα Κατοικίδιά μου' στην τάξη... καθώς και τα κατοικίδιά της με σάρκα και οστά! 

Αυτό, όμως, που είναι πραγματικά εκπληκτικό είναι το ότι η Ann αποτελεί μαθήτρια της A Junior! Μετά από μόνο 2 μήνες μαθημάτων A Junior, οι μαθητές όχι μόνο έχουν εξοικειωθεί πλήρως με την αλφάβητο, αλλά μπορούν ήδη να διαβάζουν και να γράφουν μικρές εργασίες σαν κι αυτή. Και το καλύτερο φυσικά είναι ότι όλοι τους ήταν προσηλωμένοι και πολύ ενθουσιασμένοι καθ'όλη τη διάρκεια της πρώτης τους γραπτής εργασίας στα Αγγλικά.

Halloween mini-event

In Knock English we consider it imperative that students be acquainted with certain aspects of the culture of the foreign language they are learning. In other words, language instruction is not our sole purpose; we seize every single opportunity to raise our students' cultural awareness!

Below are some snapshots of the students' brief introduction to the Halloween celebration. 
  

Halloween decorations everywhere.

Our cute Jack O' Lantern.

Posing all together with our Jack O' Lantern masks.

Playing around in front of the camera minutes after the end of the lesson.

Having a blast!

Μέρος της φιλοσοφίας του Knock English είναι η επιτακτική ανάγκη τα παιδιά να γνωρίσουν κάποιες πτυχές της κουλτούρας της ξένης γλώσσας που μαθαίνουν. Με άλλα λόγια, η εκμάθηση της γλώσσας δεν είναι ο αποκλειστικός μας σκοπός. Παράλληλα προσπαθούμε να αξιοποιήσουμε κάθε μικρή ευκαιρία που μας δίνεται έτσι ώστε αυξήσουμε την πολιτιστική συνείδηση των μαθητών μας.

Παραπάνω είναι μόνο μερικά στιγμιότυπα από την μικρή εισαγωγή των μαθητών στον εορτασμό του Halloween.