Offer more opportunities for students to learn

I would like to share with everybody a quot from Qybek  Jeddah Site director, during a conversation on teaching using games.

" Being creative to offer more opportunities for students to learn is one of the things that make us better teachers. If I teach something , that's great! The next step is to let students learn that thing. Teaching doesn't guarantee learning.  I am not sure I know everything I was taught, but I know most what I learned."

We would like to welocme the new blog members

On behave of all the members on the Jeddah Intensive  English program , we would like to welcome the new blog members from Madinah and Jeddah female English program sites to this curriculum blog community.

We look forward to your contributions and support to extend the blog conversation on curriculum and students learning. This blog is an experiment we started few years ago to share and reflect on teaching and learning. We develop as we go along.

Week 6 West London A2+ ESP Technology mind map

Week 6 West London A2+ ESP Technology mind map

Students had to choose from a list of technology. They then had do a mind map drawing and label the parts of the device. They also had to write a short description of each part. Answering What does it do?? how do you use it? and what do you do with it??

Week 6 A2+ West London ESP Technology and its uses

Ss listed and discussed different technologies. Ss were asked if they use it and how has that technology changed over the years. 

With the list students in pairs had to write and discuss two uses for each technology. 

Family Tree Poster - Toronto (Week 5)

This is a poster activity of a family tree.  It provided students the opportunity to create a poster that shows the various relationships in a family.  Students enjoyed the activity.

A1, Lancaster/Birmingham

Students prepared questions in the past simple to ask a partner. Next week they will write the answers and add to their portfolio.

ESP Dictionary Week 5- Los Angeles

       Our weekly topic as transportation. This week I wanted the students to do a little more for their dictionaries so I thought I would get them to include a sentence for each word. This week I helped them with the sentences a lot in order to get them to understand what they need to do. However, in the future I want them to be able to produce more of their own work. I am hoping that by including a basic sentence about the word in their dictionaries will help them to get a better understanding of the word and also increase their vocabulary by using other words to form the sentences.

Fiction - Worst Day Ever

students were grouped in 3's and each group was given 4 2-part verbs - 5 action verbs - 5 adjectives - 5 prepositions. these words were in the form of flashcards. They were then tasked with writing a fictional story using every word they have been given.

Family-daily schedule

During the week we wrote about our family and/or our typical day that including family in our lives. The family "focus" could be related to immediate or extended family with the topics centered on what you do with the family, their occupations, school, or things found in the home. For example, My sister goes to the University. New vocab: University, we discussed differences of why the name could be a college or changed to University. We also discussed jobs in the home in relation to things found in the home, such as vacuum, to go in our dictionaries for a V-word for the week.

East and west London A2&A2+ Field Trip to American Corner

East and west London A2&A2+ Field Trip to American Corner

Students from both classes went on a field trip in class 2 to a restaurant (American Corner) to practice their English language learnt in class. They had to use can I have and I would like ... When ordering. They also asked the waiter for suggestions and choices available. 

Students had to order their food and name items on the menu in English only. Staff at the restaurant were very helpful and the food was very nice. 

Students for homework willhave to write a review of the restaurant describing their experience. 

ESP A2+ West London Email writing: vacation

Students had to create emails for plans for a vacation. They had to imagine they lived in the United Kingdom and friend was coming to visit them for the holidays.

They had to include :

1. Advice 

2. Plans 

3. Possible plans

Students who didn't know much about United Kingdom had to research interesting things to do there and go see. 

Week 5 A2 East London Student role play waiter and customers

Week 5 A2 East London Student role play waiter and customer

Students are busy creating a conversation between three friends meeting at a restaurant and making an order with a waiter.

The conversation had to include:

1. Will

2. Would 

3 so, Too, either or neither 

This conversation will be role played in front of the class at the end of the week.