Prepositions exercise- Avril Lavigne ''Mobile''------------> ACTIVITY: Gapped / Level: Beginner/Elementary/Intermediate

Task:

 Listen to the song twice-take notes of any prepositions you hear-listen again while reading the audio script and follow it up by filling in the gaps! A short activity- have fun!

Went back home again
This sucks gotta pack up and leave again
Say goodbye to all my friends
Can't say when I'll be there again
It's time now to turn around
Turn my back on
Everything (turn my back on) everything....

[chorus]
Everything's changing when I turn around all out of my control I'm a mobile.
Everything's changing when I turn around all out of my control I'm a mobile.

Start back at this life
Stretch myself back into the vibe
I'm waking up to say I've tried
Instead of waking up to another TV guide
It's time now to turn around
Turn and walk on this crazy ground oh oh oh....

[chorus]
Everything's changing when I turn around all out of my control I'm a mobile.
Everything's changing out of what I know everywhere I go. I'm a mobile.
I'm a mobile

Hanging from the ceiling life's a mobile spinning round
With mixed feelings crazy & wild ...
Sometimes I wanna scream out loud ....

Everything's changing everywhere I go all out of my control
Everything's changing everywhere I go out of what I know

la la la la la la (la la)
la la la la la la (la la)
la la la la la la (la la la)
la la la la la la

GAP FILL: PREPOSITIONS:

THE MISSING PREPOSITIONS & PARTICLES

 around / on / out / at / back / from / into / of / to / up / with

MOBILE

Went ........... home again
This sucks gotta pack ........ and leave again
Say goodbye .......... all my friends
Can't say when I'll be there again
It's time now .............. turn ..............
Turn my back .............
Everything (turn my back ...........) everything -

[chorus]
Everything's changing when I turn ................. all ..................... .................... my control I'm a mobile.
Everything's changing when I turn ......................... all ....................... ....................... my control I'm a mobile.

Start ......................... ......................... this life
Stretch myself ......................... ......................... the vibe
I'm waking ......................... ......................... say I've tried
Instead ......................... waking ......................... ......................... another TV guide
It's time now ......................... turn .........................
Turn and walk ......................... this crazy ground oh oh oh....

[chorus]
Everything's changing when I turn ......................... all ......................... ......................... my control I'm a mobile.
Everything's changing .........................   ......................... what I know everywhere I go. I'm a mobile.
I'm a mobile

Hanging ......................... the ceiling life's a mobile spinning round
......................... mixed feelings crazy & wild ...
Sometimes I wanna scream ......................... loud ....

Everything's changing everywhere I go all ......................... ......................... my control
Everything's changing everywhere I go .........................   ......................... what I know

la la la la la la (la la)
la la la la la la (la la)
la la la la la la (la la la)
la la la la la la

A balanced literacy diet is good for the soul and comprehension skills

What the experts say about reading comprehension strategies:

Comprehension strategies are not ends in themselves; they are means of helping your students understand what they are reading. 
~ National Reading Panel

Great books are central to teaching comprehension. 
~ Stephanie Harvey

Reading is not just about what is going on in the book - it's about what's going on in your head!   
~ Adrienne Gear

The benefits of reading aloud:


Reading aloud is the foundation for literacy development. It is the single most important activity for reading success .

(Bredekamp, Copple, & Neuman, 2000)


Lets get down to discussing strategy once again:

Activating previous knowledge/understanding is an essential ingredient in cooking pot of building reading comprehension skills. 

It allows for new information "to stick" to the older information and be more easily recognized, understood, and memorized/remembered.

Thinking aloud is of importance when discussing a text or an excerpt from a book-make a connection between the book/text and your own life, think aloud as you share ( talk to yourself.) 

• Think of what the story/text reminds you- can you relate/understand from a personal experience? 
• Are there new words in the text? If so- write them down in the sentence you saw them/ read them and look the words up in a dictionary.
• Try to avoid translating to your own language as far as possible- it doesn't help to decode the meaning of each word - this only leads to  "missing the forest for the trees"- you miss the main idea.( It is easier to memorize new vocabulary and use it accurately/correctly- in full phrases.)
• We want and need ''scaffolding'' - something to work with that gets imprinted on our memory- FULL SENTENCES- Chunks of language- learn from context.

Enough banter for now- I will leave the questions to you- feel free to ask advice in class- if you need further explanations or tips- feel free to contact me.

The Dance

I have sent you my invitation, the note inscribed on the palm of my hand by the fire of living. Don’t jump up and shout, "Yes, this is what I want! Let’s do it!" Just stand up quietly and dance with me.

Show me how you follow your deepest desires, spiralling down into the ache within the ache. And I will show you how I reach inward and open outward to feel the kiss of the Mystery, sweet lips on my own, everyday.

Don’t tell me you want to hold the whole world in your heart. Show me how you turn away from making another wrong without abandoning yourself when you are hurt and afraid of being unloved.

Tell me a story of who you are, 

And see who I am in the stories I am living. And together we will remember that each of us always has a choice.

Don’t tell me how wonderful things will be . . . some day. Show me you can risk being completely at peace, truly OK with the way things are right now in this moment, and again in the next and the next and the next. . .

I have heard enough warrior stories of heroic daring. Tell me how you crumble when you hit the wall, the place you cannot go beyond by the strength of your own will. What carries you to the other side of that wall, to the fragile beauty of your own humanness?

And after we have shown each other how we have set and kept the clear, healthy boundaries that help us live side by side with each other, let us risk remembering that we never stop silently loving those we once loved out loud.

Take me to the places on the earth that teach you how to dance, the places where you can risk letting the world break your heart. And I will take you to the places where the earth beneath my feet and the stars overhead make my heart whole again and again.

Show me how you take care of business without letting business determine who you are. When the children are fed but still the voices within and around us shout that soul’s desires have too high a price, let us remind each other that it is never about the money.

Show me how you offer to your people and the world the stories and the songs you want our children’s children to remember, and I will show you how I struggle not to change the world, but to love it.

Sit beside me in long moments of shared solitude, knowing both our absolute aloneness and our undeniable belonging. Dance with me in the silence and in the sound of small daily words, holding neither against me at the end of the day.

And when the sound of all the declarations of our sincerest intentions has died away on the wind, dance with me in the infinite pause before the next great inhale of the breath that is breathing us all into being, not filling the emptiness from the outside or from within.

Don’t say, "Yes!" 

Just take my hand and dance with me.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer