presentations - Week 18

 photo from blog archive

This week we just worked on student presentations on both levels. The students seemed to have a first experience standing in front of the class and reciting their work from previous weeks.  Some were informative and had good visuals. Perhaps later to follow will be a video link for some of the best to present. We also learned briefly how to present and what not to do in regards to speech and body language.

Week 16 Geography

This week we focused on using prepositions - in, at, to, into in all of our writing assignments related to country and geography.  We explored new vocabulary and wrote about things that affect the environment like erosion.  Pictured below is an example of simple sentence writing at the A1 level in getting used to proper grammar with preposition and descriptive words (adjective and adverb) coupled with the new geography words.

Week 15 RW Past tense

This week we concentrated mainly on past tense. Recalling our weekend events, looking at grammar skill building and looking at a short clip of media to describe what happened.  During the course of working out and remembering to correct our mistakes students wrote on past events. Then after seeing the teacher as they progressed through the assignment, they hopefully saw their errors and learned from them as they continued to write.  As you can see, the first day of this assignment the student completed it only part way (corrected in red), when he had extra time the next day in class he finished it making fewer mistakes (corrected in green), therefor showing progress in his learning of the past tense.

My neighborhood Week 13

The topic for the week was Neighborhood.  Students prepared a mini presentation about their neighborhoods.  They had to use the vocabulary taught during the week to describe their neighborhood.  Since I couldn't upload the videos of the presentations, I decided to post a picture of one student's presentation notes.  After the presentation, students were allowed to ask one question about the presenter's neighborhood.

Family Activities

This week we took a look at two things. One was related to our own families and the activities that we do with them.  Students wrote paragraphs to reflect what they do with their families whether eating or going out to amusement.  We also practiced reading comprehension with numerous activities in writing and remembering information based on "family activity" in a fictional story about going to the amusement park and a family member got lost. The following pictures shows what we did:

Week 11 Mindmap Final Presentation Visual Outline

One of the student assignments this week was to do individual (A1 level) or pair work (0 level) mindmaps based on their final presentation topics.  The students on both levels were challenged by the teacher to not just do a few subcategories with their topic but were encouraged for at least three sub-groups that went down to include several examples within their branches.  This visual outline is the first in prepping students to layout their work and provide enough information that they can study for their presentations or other skills in the future.

Speaking activity about clothes Week 10 Level A1

An activity that enabled the Ss to interview each other about their choices of clothes.  Each student initially wrote about himself and then had to prepare three questions to ask another student.  The student then documented the responses.  This activity gave Ss an opportunity to speak and create their own questions and answers.

Basic interview questions and answers - Manchester/Washington

During our class week 8 in the RW class we have been working on ESP related work this week.  Students are being engaged in preparing their CV's for an international market as well as practicing correct reading grammar of basic interview questions.  The level zero class has been focusing on sentence structure, while the level 1 class has been focusing on editing their grammar (pictured below), students first draft out their questions, then randomly choose from their list to share on the board.  Then the opportunity for correction is open for any student to fix spelling/grammar mistakes.  The end of the week will result in a reading quiz focused on consistency in reading proper questioning and possible answers for comprehension and understanding ability.

2 minute hobby

Here the students all spoke for around two minutes on their favorite hobby. The students prepped a week prior with a full outline of what the hobby was, when they did it, where they did it, how they do it, with whom can participate in the hobby, and why they do it whether positive or negative outcomes of doing the hobby. It helped build a lot of confidence in the students to manage time and speak in front of the class.

Week 12 work - Shamsur Rahman

Speaking and listening....

 link to video:

https://drive.google.com/a/interlink.edu/folderview?id=0B7RdHbMKaDWTa2pZY0t4Tk83OG8&usp=sharing

Week 12 CV video by Raymond Kruk

This week B103/104 worked on CV video in class. The goal was to practice English by talking about their future as related to themselves in respect to workforce experience.  The video featured here is of an A1 level student that showed the best he has to offer, being relaxed and delivering his speech nicely.  The required time of the presentation was to be 1 minute in length.

Michael Week 12

This is a gap fill exercise which i wrote on the board and had the students complete. It addresses the vocabulary from the week. This student has color-coded his work and fixed his incorrect answers after checking with me.

Week 11 by Michael

Today I quizzed the students on the weekly vocabulary. They were supposed to translate the words in Arabic to show that they know the meanings, but a few of them forgot. This student started to, but then stopped for some reason. Then I had them write five sentences using the verbs above.