MUZZY
Hello everyone! Have you ever hear about Muzzy? THIS
IS MY CHILDHOOD!!! Today I’m going to dedicate my blog to him and his friends.
I hope you will like them.
As you already know, a second language builds a bridge
to another culture and opens the door to new friendships and adventures. We have
to guide and follow our students through these paths and show them how fun
could it be.
Muzzy is an animated greenish-blue extraterrestrial
who loves eating clocks. He goes to Gondoland, where all the adventures take
place. In the kingdom there are the King Nigel, a lion; Queen Erza, a rat; Princess
Sylvia, a poodle; Bob the gardener, a mouse; and Corvax, the evil scientist, a goblin.
With them, the kids will learn a lot of English structures and vocabulary!
Here I attach the first lesson, so you can get familiarized
with the characters: Muzzy
Muzzy was created by the BBC in 1986. Muzzy is known
for millions of children. It was a movie“Muzzy in Gondoland” that was divided
into different lessons. In each lessons the characters follow the same
structures of the sentences, they repeat a lot the keywords and give different
examples. It is very visual way to practice listening, speaking and readying at
the same time. Which CLIL methodology you will use in order to reinforce the
knowledge?
In my opinion, using TV programs as a tool is very
important because the generations nowadays have an amazingly big visual memory.
Of course it is not enough. We have to work the knowledge in the classroom,
working more in the vocabulary and structures that appear in the TV lesson or,
in the opposite way, we can use the video after learning the contents in class,
to show students how to put the knowledge learnt in a meaningful
context.
How would you work with this TV series? What do you think about using TV series as a
tool?
