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.

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.

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:

Family Profile

Students were tasked to write a profile of a fictional family using grammar learnt from units – 13,14 and 15. Multiple drafts were done wherein students had to use present participles to describe family members and past participles in passive sentences. They then had to use modal verbs and adverbs to add sentences describing certainty and possibility. After this they had to add an unreal conditional sentence for each family member to describe an impossible wish.

Week 13 East London A2+ Technology Posters

Week 13 East London A2+ Technology Poster

Students in East London class were told to make posters of one type of technology they discussed in class and draw or print a picture of it and label all its parts. Once labelled all parts needed to have a description of how you use it. 

Week 13 West London B1 Acting the gestures

Students in west London class were learning different gestures used all over the world. Students were put into groups of 4 with one student not allowed to speak and doing the gestures. The rest of the group had to say exactly the right meaning as the gesture. Then writing using modals and adverbs what their group member was gesturing. 

Example statements :

I think he may/might be saying hello 

or 

he is probably/could be telling us to be quiet. 

The class then discussed which gestures they did or didn't know and gestures they use in KSA. 

Writing about ones hometown

Students wrote a paragraph about their hometown giving advice to a visitor of things to do.

Week 12 - Work on Final Presentations

In Weeks 10 and 11 students decided on the topic for their final presentation. In Week 12 they researched the topic and, most probably, decided on the main points they would like to cover in their speech.

In Week 13 it is time for them to start practicing talking about their topic. What are the activities students can engage in to be able to start practicing making presentations and get feedback from their teachers and fellow students?

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.

Question for week 12

How to help students research their topic for the final presentation ?

this is the group input:

1. Search the topic  on the  internet 
2. Go to places related to your topic
3. Go to the public library for ideas 
4. Interview people for information 
5. Get some opinions by doing a survey or questionnaire

6- Wikipedia
7- Brainstorming 5 points
8- Asking questions
9- having  group discussions

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

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.