CELTA Experience (Day 15)

I love Fridays during CELTA because normally we're not too busy on this day. We watched a video of teaching general English today and took some notes on the stages of the lesson, a Task-Based Learning (TBL) lesson. Nothing much to share here, but what I remember well from the video was that there were some students being silly but active throughout the lesson. The lesson was for students to give a short talk recommending a tour of their country. The teacher provided a model talk, introduced some useful language and gave students enough preparation time and guidance before the task. The talk was given in the next lesson anyways. I've come to understand that giving a presentation or talk is better  in small groups than in the whole class with the student presenters standing in front of the class.

The second and last input session today was a lot of fun, Warmers and Games. We tried a variety of games and warmers that can be used in our classroom for various purposes. Some games that we tried were Categories (finding people with the same category and sit with them), Taboo/describe the object, 5 Things that (against the clock, teams think of 5 things that are.....), Back to the board (one person has their back to the board and their team explain a word to them), and Guess the missing word in teams. The use of games might help some classroom issues such as teacher/learner rapport, learner energy levels, learner motivation, difference in learning style, difference in level, and quiet/noisy learners. Last, we also had a chance to think about a game or activity which could work well with some language points, such as the second conditional to refer to a hypothetical situation. 

As soon as I got home, I started working on my LSRT assignment (Language Skill Related Task) because I still hadn't worked on it at all. I kept changing the reading and listening materials that I would use. Thank to Nick who reminded me today to choose one, so I decided to start working, finish, and submit it as soon as possible. I don't want to spend my whole weekend for it only. I have life here!