This week I was not able to teach any class material as it was revision week for the midterm exams next week. Next week I will be away as well, followed by the delayed midterm exam after that. So I will not be teaching any CREDIT classes for the next two to three weeks. So i will now switch my focus on to the hagwon classes that I have to teach three times a week. This week I forgot to record any class time, I have been running around like a headless chicken this week trying to get my trip and everything else organized. But I did manage to use one new method of reading in the hagwon class. The reading topic was different snacks around the world. It seemed a pretty uninteresting topic so I decided to take 8 words from each snack description in the text and give those 8 words to a pair of students. i then gave them the task of talking about the particular snack, how it is made, where it is from etc to the class using the 8 words as hints.
It worked really well. The students became interested in the text as the compared their answer to the original. It also proved to be a great idea for learning the new vocabulary in the text as I included the difficult words in the 8 I gave them. This activity took 30 mins of the class. Usually I would spend 5 minutes on the reading. A big improvement.
So tonight I am going to be teaching the hagwon class for the final time before I leave. So I am going to use this upcoming class to record and use for my module 2 assignment. The topic is "Managing Life" using the future tense of going to and will.
I was thinking about brainstorming ways in which people spend their weekends. I will then model a question on the board "What are you up to this weekend?" I will get students into pairs to ask each other before reporting back to the class.
I then intend to use visuals on the board for weekend activities. I will nominate students to practice saying the modeled sentence about the future and the pictured activity.
I will then ask if there are any different ways of asking about the future and write those up on the board.
From there I will work into the study phase of the lesson.
This is my rough plan. I will teach the class tonight and then write about what happened next week. i will not have time to write about it tonight, will be headed to the airport.
The different snacks around the world actually sounds like a fun topic! Maybe next time you can print off color pictures of different snacks, lay them out on the table or post them all over the wall, and have them choose 2 snacks that they think might taste good or interested in. On the back of each picture, there should be some information or keywords, that way when they get back together, each student can share to their classmates about their snacks! Maybe I'll do this for my future class... :-P
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