ADDRESSING COMPETENCES INTO A ELT ENGLISH CLASSROOM

When you are connected to your work , while you are teaching, you can recognize inmediatly what kind of competence you are applying to; that´s when your job, intead, being theoric becomes practical.

I try to make different activities during my classes. For example, to improve the lingüistic competence I plan written exercises according to the topic. Sometimes we listen a short story where kind have to complete with the correct forms of verbs, prepositions etc. After finishing that, we read the text, completed, and a I take advantage of that, to teach phonetic aspects and fluency.
Getting through socio-linguistic competence, we make activities like games, short sketches, or " complete the conversation game". I also have a material related to Idioms and Proverbs, where children have to replace a picture for a word, and finally find together the meaning of the proverb and its equivalent in mother tongue. They use to laugh because, they think that proverbs are just for old people.

Pragmatic competence activities consist in tell a story by pictures, firstly, you can do it with a well known story in their mother tonghe. When kids acquire experience and more vocabulary you can make them organize the pictures and tell the story using their own words, eventhough they can "build" a new story using the picture card in different order.

To conclude, and this , depends on individual abilities, you can also work with your children trough handcrafts making. That could help you to teach culture, vocabulary, commands and work-in-groups management.