Let´s use our body and voice!;-)

In the previous three days there was lot to do, and everything was a bit unusual for us but better to say very interesting and what´s more enjoyable....! We tried to play the role of story-tellers re-telling some of H.Ch.Andersen´s fairy-tales (ours was "The Story Of A Mother", hey girls, can you remember the new vocabulary "blackthorn bush"?;-)) Learning Danish turned out to be a great fun when trying to repeat after Lejf and Sheila( our student teachers) some "strange" sounds and even worse was reading some Danish words because pronunciation differs from the written form a lot in this language (Just try: "Dav jeg hedder Iva" is pronounced as [dau jaj hile...]. now you can already say in Danish" Hello, my name is....":-)). We ended Tuesday with other European students drawing our "language portrait" and talking about different languages all over the world...
Wednesday lessons were pure enjoyment! Else Marie (a music teacher) instructed us not to be afraid of using our body and voice in different ways...singing songs, dancing ( like Africans do- I won´t forget "Makulela":-)), presentation of a machine just with sounds, later on with instruments, and using music as a source of our imagination- mime-play (Sylvi, our sitting on the bar chairs smoking a cigar pretending to be women of doubtful reputation;-)) and in the end painting the atmosphere of music in abstract pictures...how unusual and useful for developing children´s imagination and creativity, I think... Evening in-service lecture on the theme of using ICT in English lessons showed us that not only the Czech teachers are not used to involving ICT in their lessons yet but also their Danish colleagues cope with the same problem.

V uplynulych trech dnech jsme se nezastavili, porad bylo co delat. V utery jsme si zahrali na vypravece, nebot byla hodina o danske literature a filmu. Cele to ve finale bylo vlastne jen o H.Ch.Andersenovi a jeho pohadkach. Ve skupinkach jsme si meli "nastudovat" jeden z jeho pribehu a pak ho pred ostatnimi prevypravet...nase pohadka se jmenovala "Pribeh matky" a opravdu bych ji nedoporucovala cist detem jako krasny vypraveni s happy endem na dobrou noc:-) Zabavna pak byla vyuka danstiny...do tridy vpochodovala peroxidova blondyna a ponekud nesmely hosik:-) Neco jako Black and White, i co se tyce charakteru, mozna podle fotek posoudite sami, kdo mel jakou roli:-) Jsou to taky zatim jen studenti, kteri prej jinak uci imigranty, ale podle systemu, jinymi slovy nesystemu ve vyuce bysme ani nerekli, ze uz maji nejake ty hodiny za sebou...(prominte, Sheilo a Lejfe...). nakonec jsme je sami navedli, ze by bylo mozna dobry si nejdriv rict danskou abecedu a pak postupovat k tezsimu...celkove me to bavilo, i kdyz sranda to nebyla...danstina se jinak cte a jinak pise..tak si treba zkuste: "Jeg hegger Iva"(vyslovuje se [jaj hilla ...]. kdo by to byl rekl, ze:-)) Odpoledne bylo hodne zajimavy, i kdyz chvili trvalo, nez jsem pochopili, co se po nas vubec chce...ve finale z toho vzesel "language portrait"(portret jazyku)- do obrazku jsme meli zakreslit ruznymi barvami vsechny jazyky, se kterymi jsme nejakym zpusobem v kontaktu a pak jsem se o tom ve skupinkach bavili...vubec cela ta hodina s nazvem "Jazyk a identita" byla o uvedomeni si podobnosti/odlisnosti v jednotlivych jazycich...zajimavy...
Stredu jsem si pak uzili snad nejvic. Else Marie (ucitelka hudby) nam na zacatku sdelila, ze ve vyucovani je treba zapojovat nejen mozek a takovou tu rozumovou stranku, ale taky nase telo, hlas a vubec smysly...zacli jsme zpevem u klaviru, takovy pekny melodicky pisnicky( mne to uz docela chybelo jen si tak zazpivat, vzpominam na nase hrani u klaviru, Kamsko, lisko;-)), pak jsme pridali i pohyby- uzasna byla "makulela", jako kdybysme byli nekde mezi africkejma kmenama a nacvicovali jejich narodni tanec:-), jsme se narachali...neco z pantomimy- predvest jen za pomoci zvuku nejaky stroj, pak podle hudby sehrat pantomimu (to by se ti, Marti, libilo;-))- jj, Sylvi, nezapomenu, jak jsme si hraly na barovy lehky devy:-) a nakonec malovani podle hudby, obrazy pak mely vyjadrovat dve ruzne nalady, ktere v nas ta hudba probouzela...hodne zajimavy, i kdyz se toho clk nejdriv trochu bal...
Vecer jsem jeste padili na prednasku pro ucitele AJ- " Jak uzivat ICT/pocitace ve vyuce AJ"...nas docela presvedcilo, ze ani dansky ucitele nejsou jeste skamaradeni s technologii stejne jako ti nasi...