This summer has flown by. It has been the best summer ever for all of us. The weather was gorgeous so we had the chance to go either to the beach or to the swimming pool almost everyday. We didn’t really have as many “English moments” as I would have liked, I mean, I hardly organized activities with a particular goal. However, we just “lived in English” as much as we could.
In an attempt to innovate and make the most of my time, we played with words and dealt with grammar. Kids had fun and learned at the same time. Also, we reviewed food vocabulary by writing down shopping lists and reading recipes.
Nevertheless, our biggest achievement consisted of changing the name of many objects. My 6 year-old child is able to say sentences in English, and he feels proud of himself when he does it, so he is doing it more and more each time. However, my 4 year-old boy can’t construct his own sentences yet (though he knows some questions by heart like commands and short expressions.
In any case, all of us, the five of us, even when we were talking in Spanish we got used to naming some things always in English. For example, we said things like: “¿Quieres un poco más de watermelon?”, “¿Dónde dejaste el dummy?” This way they learned those words as I remembered to change from Spanish into English again and again (when I was talking in Spanish for any reason).
These are some of the things we did
