presentations - Week 18

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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.

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:

Visual Outlines

This week we worked on writing sentences (sentence structure) in regards to sports.  Each student had to draw a mind-map or other visual for themselves to help as an outline for writing about the sport that they chose. The picture here is of one example of how students can use a visual outline in organizing their thoughts.

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.

Story Writing

This week we continued to look at stories and how they may be used for media in presentations.  But instead of watching a movie we read and used words from our reading that can be made into our own stories.  The previous week we got introduced to what is a story and answered questions from it to understand the story, since unlike the movie where there is action to follow we needed to follow the direction of the words.  This week presented a challenge for the students to focus on their own stories or past experiences they would like to share.  We only used another story to again help with some ideas for our own stories to tell.  In the coming weeks we hope to get more enriched into reading as well as elaborating on our own writing to tell not just a bio but an exciting story about our lives. Here is an example from the book we are using to help us get familiar with story writing.

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.

Portfolio Organization - Major Dictionary Writing

The students worked on their major of study and words related to their past study at TVTC.  Each student looked into their majors and researched words based on their particular study and used them in definition and in sentences. Most majors ranged in engineering and production. 

Week 19 Health Hazards

This week in the Eagle and Jaguar communication classes we looked at potential hazards and conversed with questions on how to fix the problems. Following this conversation exercise we will make safety awareness posters of quick instructions to be more safe around hazardous situations.

info map project

In the previous two weeks the students worked in groups to learn geography around the world outside of the Middle East. In conjunction with a brainstorm mindmap, the students also made an information map to aid in visual communication of presenting what they found out about another country that was interesting in wanting to visit and about the country's natural surroundings.

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.

Work Locations

This week the students worked on prepositions and work location likes and dislikes.  They spoke and wrote about past or future conditions in the workplace that they preferred and didn't prefer.

Week 3 Student activity - Mr. Raymond Kruk

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Student assignment 3 on where they live, the climate or weather and what you should wear in that particular weather, including color of clothes and style.  Ss also present in front of the class this assignment for the quiz for the week.

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.

Week 11 Grammar Round up - By Raymond Kruk

From the level zero students coming into the A1 level, we finished up this week with some continuous/future grammar work.  The students have had the past three weeks working on the importance of correct use of "to be" grammar through a series of worksheets and activities. From this point on, it will be essential of students to show this grammar ability through live presentations.

Mr. Ray Giving a persentation on some his students writing assignments at the end of term 2 - YouTube

MR Ray Giving a persentation on some his students writing assignments at the end of term 2 - YouTube