Hours 29-26
I started this week attending to one of Oriol's classes. I was with 3 more teacher trainees, who had different activities planned for that day. Curiously, some of the students were taking an oral exam, where they had to talk about the London fire in 1666 while one of the teachers projected images in a power point presentation. The other student was grading their performances and meanwhile the third one was giving students the corrected compositions they had as a homework. I think this worked very well, everything was well organised and students responded very well to these activities. After that, Oriol commented on the projects they had to hang on the moodle, in which students had to tell things about when they were little, by means of videos, power point presentations and other audiovisual means. He showed one of these as an example for the others to follow, and offered students the chance to change their proposals in a week time. It was really nice to be there and see how he manages to encourage students to use the TIC in favour of their learning of a language. I found this visit really useful.
Back to Miriam's 3F class, we started remembering the vocabulary I introduced on the last class. They spontaneously said the names of the sports aloud and Miriam made mimics to make them remember the most difficult ones. All of them participated in saying the words, and Miriam presented the next activity naturally. They completed some exercises from the book dealing with sports and when correcting, Miriam tried to elicit information about their favourite sports and pre-taught the formula Why...? Because it's... to express their opinions on sports. They said adjectives in Spanish/Catalan and Miriam translated them into English and wrote the words on the blackboard for them to build full sentences. She guided them by pointing at the structures on the blackboard and finally got them speaking and discussing on the characteristics of the sports their peers were choosing.
On Tuesday I met a student who had been out for 3 weeks. He seemed not to follow the class and I tried to help him with the new words. They were given a photocopy which included a short reading and some questions on famous sportspeople. They checked the answers together and Miriam wrote them on the blackboard. The class worked well, with neither incidents nor misbehaviours.
On Friday Miriam had prepared an activity in pairs. They were given a paper with information on a famous sportsman/woman. Student A had to ask questions to Student B to fill a chart with the missing information, and viceversa. This made them remember the basic question structures that first appeared on the reading on Tuesday in order to elicit info from someone. Miriam took advantage of their lack of memory and raised questions in Catalan/Spanish to make them say in English. She did this repeatedly, at random and in a very funny way, for them to build the questions and keep them in mind to complete the exercise successfully. Students answered spontaneously and spent a good time trying to build the questions correctly. Some of the questions were: Is it a man or a woman? Where is (s)he from? When is his/her birthday? What sports can (s)he play? How many medals has (s)he got? As homework, students will have to look for info about their favourite sportsman/woman and complete a chart like the one in the photocopy to write a short text about this person. On Friday some students were misbehaving, and Miriam finally had to punish one of them by filling an "incidence sheet" which he'll have to have it signed by their parents and bring it back to her by the next class.
I'm having a toothache. My wisdom comes to the surface through my tooth. I'm delirious!
www.entusolapa.com/I started this week attending to one of Oriol's classes. I was with 3 more teacher trainees, who had different activities planned for that day. Curiously, some of the students were taking an oral exam, where they had to talk about the London fire in 1666 while one of the teachers projected images in a power point presentation. The other student was grading their performances and meanwhile the third one was giving students the corrected compositions they had as a homework. I think this worked very well, everything was well organised and students responded very well to these activities. After that, Oriol commented on the projects they had to hang on the moodle, in which students had to tell things about when they were little, by means of videos, power point presentations and other audiovisual means. He showed one of these as an example for the others to follow, and offered students the chance to change their proposals in a week time. It was really nice to be there and see how he manages to encourage students to use the TIC in favour of their learning of a language. I found this visit really useful.
Back to Miriam's 3F class, we started remembering the vocabulary I introduced on the last class. They spontaneously said the names of the sports aloud and Miriam made mimics to make them remember the most difficult ones. All of them participated in saying the words, and Miriam presented the next activity naturally. They completed some exercises from the book dealing with sports and when correcting, Miriam tried to elicit information about their favourite sports and pre-taught the formula Why...? Because it's... to express their opinions on sports. They said adjectives in Spanish/Catalan and Miriam translated them into English and wrote the words on the blackboard for them to build full sentences. She guided them by pointing at the structures on the blackboard and finally got them speaking and discussing on the characteristics of the sports their peers were choosing.On Tuesday I met a student who had been out for 3 weeks. He seemed not to follow the class and I tried to help him with the new words. They were given a photocopy which included a short reading and some questions on famous sportspeople. They checked the answers together and Miriam wrote them on the blackboard. The class worked well, with neither incidents nor misbehaviours.
On Friday Miriam had prepared an activity in pairs. They were given a paper with information on a famous sportsman/woman. Student A had to ask questions to Student B to fill a chart with the missing information, and viceversa. This made them remember the basic question structures that first appeared on the reading on Tuesday in order to elicit info from someone. Miriam took advantage of their lack of memory and raised questions in Catalan/Spanish to make them say in English. She did this repeatedly, at random and in a very funny way, for them to build the questions and keep them in mind to complete the exercise successfully. Students answered spontaneously and spent a good time trying to build the questions correctly. Some of the questions were: Is it a man or a woman? Where is (s)he from? When is his/her birthday? What sports can (s)he play? How many medals has (s)he got? As homework, students will have to look for info about their favourite sportsman/woman and complete a chart like the one in the photocopy to write a short text about this person. On Friday some students were misbehaving, and Miriam finally had to punish one of them by filling an "incidence sheet" which he'll have to have it signed by their parents and bring it back to her by the next class.
I'm having a toothache. My wisdom comes to the surface through my tooth. I'm delirious!A video on a boy who used to be good at sports. ELLOS - Campeon
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