Puppet activity

Today on class we had made our own puppet .
We had seen that they are many ways for doing puppets .
I choose to do a sock puppet  and I decorated it with  color carboards and other materials .
And this is the final result .

I think that puppets are a very important  tool to use on a Second language accquisition class .

I´m going to give some reasons of why we should use them  as a teachers on our  English class .

Why we should use puppets on our English class?
 Puppet acts  as a mediator between the teacher and the student in many situations . 
It can help students to express their thoughts by whispering needed vocabulary into their ears .
The teacher can use the puppet to let it actively create  the lesson and its content : it can create tension , curiosity , and excitement , it can be used to impart knowledge by repeating something said or repeated wrongly so that the students had to correct it . 
The teacher can act out some sceanes while the students observe , by this students can learn how and in which situations can use language .
It can help teachers to represent the foreing language in an authentic way  . 
The puppet can only understand and speak English v , therefore students are forced to speak in English . 

 IN WHICH ACTIVITIES WE COULD USE PUPPETS?

- For introducing new vocabulary and sentences structures
- For repeating and deepening knowledge.
 -  For storytelling
- Singing songs 
 - Playing action games.
- Creating ryhmes
- For creating authentic situations through dialoges  between teacher and puppet . 


Rules for using puppets 
  a) It needs his own place in the classroom
   b) The hand you use tu impersonate the puppet should be relaxed , the wrist is the highest point so that the puppet can keep eye contact with students . 
c) The moves of the puppet should be use sparsely, depending on the size and the possible movements of the puppet . 
d) When the puppet doesn´t speak or act  the teacher should hold it on a neutral position
 e) When the puppet is speaking the mouth should move on an authentic way .

 
f) The puppet is always looking at the person that is talking to them   :
- When the teacher is talking to their pupils , the puppet is looking at the teacher. 
- When the puppet is talking to students  , the teacher is looking to the puppet . 
Teacher and puppet never look at the students at the same time . 
 - When teacher and puppet are talking to each other they also have to look to each other .  During the conversation the onlyone who is allowed to look at the children is the puppet .