Jane House

This week, in our English subject Jane House, who is a published author of children's material came to class in order to talk us about her job. She was talking about what she did as well as how important are the books in students' life. 

Moreover, she showed us some of her materials and we realized that books are not always as boring as they seem. I mean, books can include dynamic activities and funny games too. It is the teachers' tasks to use them in a correct way, to exploit their possibilities. For instance, she showed us that her activities are usually related to a text, in this ways, students can do meaningful activities with a concret context. One of the activities she talked about was a dolphin poem that students had to read and then they had to answer some questions. I think that her talk was inspiring and she encouraged us to use books in class, a way of teaching which is hated by most of the university teachers. 

To sum up, I think that the talk was very helpful to us as it has shown us a different point of view about books, giving them the change to be used in class with the aim of improve children's skills because they can be a great support.