Journal July 31th

In this class since we had chance to put into practice all the knowledge regarding the use of technology we have acquired during the course. We presented the different teaching activities we created to teach, in some cases listening skills, in some others speaking skills.

The first group presented the topic: Exchange Greetings, Introductions and Leave Takings for 7 graders. They planned very interesting activities involving the use of technology. Here it is part of the activities they presented:

Name of the presenter: Sebastian, Steven and Fidel 

Subject: Exchange Greetings, Introductions and leave takings for 7 graders

Activities:

Listen to the song “Hello, Good Bye” by the Beatles http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=2417

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgQZLYdyBDg  video about common phrases to introduce your-self, say hello and good bye. Informal and informal language were used

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=3497#a  This is another activity to teach students to introduce themselves.

http://www.esl-lab.com/selfintro/selfintrord1.htm

http://www.tolearnenglish.com/free/audio/1g.php

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7TJit1tq60  video about greetings and introductions http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=837
They presented a lot of good activities, many of them are online exercises. Some of the activities might be a bit difficult for seven graders; however, with the proper introduction all the exercises can work.
The second group worked on Science and Technology; they presented very interactive activities for listening comprehension.

Name of the presenter:  Luis and Monica

Subject:eScience and technology

They prepared some vocabulary about the topic. They created very interesting activities to combine the use of the tech with the teacher’s ability to guide students. We played Hot potato, they did fill in the blanks exercises and for the consolidation they asked us to think about a future invention and create a power point presentation based on that.

The following group also focused on listening skills; they worked on symptoms, aches, pains and different diseases.

Name of the presenter:  Liz and Stephany

Subject: Aches, pains and diseases

I really liked that they were well-organized. They presented different activities to improve listening skills, but they also put into practice other skills such as speaking through the use of role plays. Here are some of the activities they presented:
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyCXPaczZ7A
http://esldivlabs.vcc.ca/ELSA/Instructor_Web_Exercises/Vocabulary/Aches_and_Pains_Multiple_Choice.htm

Finally my group presented an activity based on speaking skills, our topic call centers. We provided our students with different situations and they created phone conversations based on the situations.