ADVANCED II LAST CLASS

IN THIS LAST CLASS THAT WAS YESTERDAY (MAY 22, 2013)
I continued with the practice and i developed a listening practice and speaking practice.

I was a little bit nervous because I would record my video in this class, but later I forgot about it and I focused to teach my class.

WARM UP ACTIVITY:
BOARD GAME: "DO WHAT YOU GET"
I  created a board game in which students had to develop many tasks that it contained.
Students had to pass a ball and the person who had the ball would take a number from a box the number were from 1 to 9 when the student had the number they had to develop the tasks to the corresponding number that he/she got. and so on..

Then I developed a listening practice in the inside out book.

They worked in page # 76 exercises 1, 2, and 3

In the first exercise they had to work with a partner and talk about some decisions that they would like to take in the future.

For example: getting a tattoo, having a plastic surgery, running for an election, etc.

In the second exercise:

They had to hear four conversations about some people that talked about some decision that they would take. Students had to match the number of the picture with the letter.

In the third exercise: students had to recognize some phrases that they heart in the conversation and said in which conversation they heart the phrase.

But I had some problem with this activity because the majority of them didn’t have the book and I didn’t know, so I made groups, but they didn’t work very well because some of them were talking, others were looking the cellphones and doing other things and they did not pay attention the listening because they could not see very well the exercise in the book since they were 7 or 6 in the groups and they only had one or two books per group. After all, I developed the activity and we checked the answer together.

Then I had prepared a speaking activity for the end of the class.

They worked in groups of three and they had to invent a new gadget and presented the new gadget to the people of the class. They had to take into account:

What kind of gadget will be?
How will we use it?
And what will be the advantages to create this gadget?

Then two groups shared their gadgets in front to the whole class. It was a nice activity because they worked in groups (cooperative learning) and also they developed their critical thinking and their imagination because they were thinking about the new gadget they had to create.

Then I said good bye to the group.

I learned many things from this group, one of them is that we need to practice every day our English in order to improve it because they practice their English every day and it is very good.