SECOND DAY

I'm very happy today because I've really enjoyed all the lessons and moreover most of them could be adapted and be used with my students.

First of all, the teacher has told us she has raised the level in our classroom and some students have been sent to a different classroom. Consequently, the number  of teachers attending the lessons has been reduced.

We have started with Language Development. We have carried out an activity to review the vocabulary seen in yesterday's session. We have been given different cards and we have to explain the expressions to our classmates. After that, we have continued with word formation by means of proper names, new meanings for old words, acronyms and abbreviations. These activities have let me improve  and update my wordpower. Then we have done an activity called Alphabet Islands to expand our vocabulary and has been used as a warm-up  to talk about the Education System in our countries. The letters of the alphabet were hung on the wall and we had to think about something we really liked about our Secondary School and then about something we didn't like about the  educational system in our countries. Then we had to  stand in front of the initial of  the word we had chosen and explain it to our classmates. It's been  a great activity to learn about the education system of other countries.

The next lesson  has been about asking questions about our family to our classmates and then we have had a listening about Frida Kahlo. These activities have been used as an introduction  to a video about DNA Ancestry. It's been emotional and it can be used to raise awareness about immigrants and to show pupils that we all have ancestors coming from different countries. Here it is!

The afternoon session has focused on Methodology and I have found all the activities very useful to be carried out with my students, especially the ones in Practical English. We have been only six of us in the lesson which has allowed to do plenty of activities.We have started with a brainstorming about the challenges teachers face every day trying to engage our students in conversation, the activities that  can be interesting for them and the importance of using drama to achieve it.  Then we have done nine interesting activities to show the important role played by drama in order to encourage our students to talk. I'm going to talk about two of them.  In one of them, we have been in groups of three and we had to take turns to make a short speech as one of the people the teacher has given us, for example, as an Oscar winner, TV presenter, the king or queen among others. I think it is an activity that I could adapt and use in my lessons. For the following activity we have been  divided in pairs and then we  have  been given a sentence. When we have uttered it  our classmate has had to improvise and keep the conversation going on. I think it could be a motivating activity for my students and a great way to revise the vocabulary seen in  the classroom.

Tonight at 7.15, Anglolang academy has organised a cinema session. The film chosen has been The Words  starred by Bradley Cooper, Zoë Saldana and Jeremy Irons. I think it is  good way to interact and hang out with our classmates in an informal situation.