::Can the concept of “tinkering school” be applied to Chilean public classrooms? ::

I think that the concept of ”tinkering school" can be applied to Chilean public classroom. I strongly believe that we as future teachers are able to change student's mind and make then be interested in English. The key issue here is to keep students motivated. I mean, we have to ask or find out the interests of our students because in that way we can mix our classes with their interests. It is very boring when kids are seated looking at the board doing nothing. They feel that they are not part of the class and also they don’t learn anything when classes are monotonous. Just grammar lessons are not interesting for kids.

Also, I think that workshops are interesting too for children at school. Kids get really into these kinds of things because they don’t have to study to get a grade or something like that. Kids just do it because they like it.

In our work experience English is just a workshop where kids learn a lot and they don’t have to study because the teacher is going to grade them. I can see how kids love English because they like it, and they study because they want to learn more. So, I think that doing fun activities like games for example we can motivate our students to learn more about English or any subject.

I believe that we have many options to make kids interested in what we are doing. I mean, we have many resources to find material. So, we can prepare interesting classes for kids. Try it! I strongly believe that we can change that boring classes at school. We just have to think a little bit in our future students and how can we help them to learn more.

::Three Components of Sound: Pitch, Loudness, and Timbre::

I think that it would be nice if we can talk with students about the three components of sound: Pptch, loudness, and timbre. From my point of view it is an interesting topic to talk about. I mean, kids are not accustomed to talk about pitch, loudness or timbre and me neither. Also, I don’t know too many things especially about this topic. It would be great to learn a little bit about it.

I know that kids are not really into this topic. So, I would put a video or something to call their attention. I think that we (teachers) can motivate kids to learn a little bit more about different kind of things, in this case about component of sounds. Topic that I’m sure they are not going to study at home because they want to know about it.

To be honest I think that this would be intellectually stimulating, but I couldn’t do something deeper with little kids. So, in that case I’d just introduce “sounds” and then I would do some exercises listening different sounds. On the other hand, if I had grown up kids I would like to go deeper about sound but not doing boring things about it. I mean, I would show them some exotics videos and them we can share different points of view about it.

I think we can make a boring topic in a fun topic. The key is to have a good activity. So, they can have fun and also learn about what we are talking about.

::Words::

Whisper: to speak very quietly, using thebreath but not the voice, so that only the person close to you can hear you.
Tune: a series of musical notes, especially one which is pleasant and easy to remember. A melody.
Hoarse: (of a voice or a person) having a rough voice, often because of a sore throat or a cold.
Clip: a short part of a film or television programme.
Tune out: If musicians who are preparing to play tune up their instruments, they make small changes to them so that they produce the correct note.
Samples: snippets of pre-recorded material.