The Silent Way Method

 Hello guys! I´m more than glad to be posting again, this time, sharing my outputs about the Silent Way Method.

To be honest, yesterday when I was reading the PPT, before the class, I was just intrigued about how we would develop this topic because    I had never heard about it and couldn't figure out how it worked. I was curious and today it turned out to be an interesting method.

So, some highlights of today´s class are the following: 

The silent way was founded around the 1970s by the Egyptian, mathematician and educator Caleb Gategno who believed that discovering was better than teaching, the method encourages the use of physical tools like rods, and the teacher´s role was left out to a point of exaggeration, and everything was carried out pretty much silently. We even joked that this method is the adopted child because it has more things in common with the D.M. rather than the GTM.

Some important aspects are:

• Colors are essential in this method.
• Sounds as well.
• Physical objects play an important role.
• Carried out mostly silently (There is a "critical period" and one may believe that nothing is happening, but actually yes, learning is occurring.)

At the end of the class, teacher Orlando gave us all some rods and we built up some sentences every rod worked as a  sentence component (S-V-C.)

We built up some cool sentences and shapes! :D

                                                                                                           Dani was saying that the white rod looked like a piece of cheese, that will always remind me of the Silent Way Method! 😆

This was following the S+V+C structure. We came up with sentences in the simple past practicing regular and then irregular verbs.