Total Physical Response 🕺🏻.

 Hello! It's been a few days since the last entry🤔 Welcome back!!!🤩🤩

Today I'm here to tell you a little bit about what we learned in class, and honestly, it's one of the most fun methods so far, and it's called Total Physical Response (TPR). 🏃🏻‍♀️

This method was created by James Asher, and it consists of teaching language through physical activity because the more often a memory connection is traced, the stronger the memory association and the more likely it will be remembered🧠. 

For this method, we can use different tools such as different songs and the principal idea, and the use of imperatives (short commands) to indicate what the student needs to do🗣️🎶. This method is very dynamic, so it can turn the classroom really loud, but honestly, I think it's worth it haha😉. Another thing, important to mention, is that with this method you can take advantage of what is happening around you to introduce new vocabulary🫣.

To practice this method, teacher Orlando asked us to make different groups, and sing the song that we all had probably heard as kids "if you're happy and you know it!". Here are some pictures of my group and the rest of the class😁.

And here is a video of our group following commands and Nathaly being the one in the lead🫡.

Honestly, this was a super fun and entertaining class, you could definitely tell that we all enjoyed it😋. Also, I think it's a very effective method because I remember a lot of this class due to all the different activities that we did. As the class was ending, we started to listen to different background music, which I thought it was interesting; little did I know it was teacher Orlando doing it on purpose to slightly introduce our next method👀, so stay tuned to find out which one will be.

Thank you for reading me, bye!! 👋🏻💛