week 18 lesson idea example

This week we practiced how to present a presentation based on a students major. Here is an example of a student presenting the components of an engine.

Preparing a curriculum vitae

Students worked in groups to structure a curriculum vitae. They viewed templates on line and then decided upon suitable categories, personal information, education, experience skills etc
They then started to draft their own cv

Class activity week 13

Students found pictures of people in the newspaper and cut them out. They then put 9 pictures on a grid and brainstormed adjectives which could be used to best describe the people. The students used their grids to play picture "bingo" by calling an adjective and crossing a picture if it could be used to describe someone on their grid.Students then discussed the appropriateness of their decisions.

Week 11, Requests and offers

Students practised requests and offers. They designed a menu and engaged in a restaurant role play which was recorded for further critique

Present perfect phrases

Students watched short clips from movies using phrases in the present perfect.
They worked in groups to write the phrases using the present perfect.

Learning vocabulary, john

Students used the vocabulary they learned during the week to create mind maps. They added additional vocab to the subtopics. The best work was selected by the class.

Vocabulary/dictionary

Students have started preparing vocabulary to create a dictionary.

Present simple, present progressive

Students practised using the simple present and present progressive tenses.

Students worked in groups to choose the appropriate tense according to the time clause coming to the white board to complete and correct sentences.