12 may 2011

Listening and reading practice

This class was a little bit different because I had to prepare a listening practice. The teacher sent me the lesson plan where the link for the listening was, and it didn't work. I was worried because I was preparing my lesson plan at night. I googled for a listening practice and lucky me! I found the same listening I was supposed to use. The problem was that it was not a downloadable audio script, so I decided to take a laptop and some speakers to the class. The reading was easy since it was included in the lesson plan. I only had to prepare a warm up activity and a role play activity for the end of the class.
I started the class with a warm up. I decided to paste some word strips on the board; I made the students form two teams and stand in lines in front of the board. I started reading a short paragraph and they had to pick the words from the board when I mentioned them. I included some distractors, so at the end they pick them up, but they were no valid points (jejejejeje it was funny). My tutor liked the activity because it was a kind of listening practice but in a funnier way. Then I started with the real listening practice. This time I arrive very early to the classroom, so I had enough time to prepare everything. When the time for the listening practice arrived, the laptop, the speakers and the webpage were ready. I made them listen to the audio script for the first time; then I gave some questions to them and played the audio script again. The activity resulted easy to them. My tutor told me that it was OK because it was a short audio script, so it was a nice idea to play it once only. After that I gave them the reading practice, it was about passive voice, and was kind of long. They had to read the story and then they had to transform the passive sentences they found into active sentences. Some of them got confused, but we solve the task as a group; we didn't finish, so it converted into a homework. For the last practice I prepared a part of a dialogue; I pasted it on the board; then the students had to work in pairs and had to invent an ending for the dialogue. The activity was nice but at the end they all didn't had the opportunity to pass to the front and perform it. Two or three pairs passed to the front and they did it very well.
My feedback session was nice this time. The teacher did it the way it is.

1 comentario:

  1. You see how useful is technology! It's nice to see how creative you are. I hope you get a better grade this time since I think you did a great job...
    Keep working!

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