Verb seminar

Whew!! Glad that's over.  It actually went ok.  There were mostly students there maybe about 40, and about 5 teachers.  When I realized it was a lot more students than teachers I decided to turn it more into a lesson rather than a lecture.  There was hardly any response from them, but answers I did get just reinforced that they have major problems with the verbs.  Although they have good comprehension.   I told them about you Fred, and Ryan Research, and then about my research and told them my methods were telling stories and playing with blocks.  :)  Don't know how impressed they were.  One student asked me questions afterwards.  She is doing a thesis on different teaching methods.  So she is taking special ideas from each different method.  I told her she was more than welcome to sit in on my classes any time she wishes.  The other students who stayed behind just asked questions about if I liked Ukraine, and how I felt here with the language.  I was so nervous but I am glad it all went well.  Here's the PPP about it.  I was hoping they would say "wow" when they saw the charts, but they weren't impressed.   verb seminar

Looking for a job

Did two classes yesterday on job descriptions and looking for a job.  Then did a TPRS on finding a job.  The students were excellent.  They were third year students.  The first time I've had them, and they were very responsive.  Totally enjoyed the story part.  They did a good job using the business vocabulary we were covering too.  When I asked them to write their stories, they had very interesting stories, but they made a lot of errors with their verbs.  So I am thinking I am going to have to work specifically on verbs too.  Here are the pictures of the story.  It really is an excellent way to get students to talk.  The name of the story is Bill is looking for a job.  The students often gave him a different name in their stories.. one was James Bond, another was Chuck Norris.  They have fun.  I just hope they are learning something.  :)

Headhunters

All the pieces

Ok.  So I'm supposed to be teaching Business English. So I have a class where a few students walk out on me... so now I want to take vengeance!!!  I'm gonna teach them 'headhunters'.  Actually my idea for our next class is CVs.  I know these students already know how to do a CV.  So we'll cover what goes into a CV with some practice worksheets, and we'll do and exercise where they have to construct a cv from clues given,  then we'll play head hunters.  It's a board game fashioned after clue.  So we have on the board 8 different universities, there are cards for each university, there are transfers to different universities if they wish to transfer, there are 6 applicants for a job, each card showing the applicant and something about them, and there are 6 jobs. A tally sheet too, to tick off clues to identify who is or isn't in the envelope.( That's the paper in the background with the nice orange envelope... which, by the way, Trude says she made better than I did!! HA!)   One card each... university, applicant, and job is put into an envelope and they must make guesses while moving around the board who is in the card, which university they attended and what job they were successful in getting.

The board game with all the universities

 Here's a picture of the game.  Trude and I spent a lot of time this week working on it.  It can be modified to stress articles or prepositions too, or simply modified to "stress".. whatever your condition and desire is at present!! :)   If anyone is interested in the game I can put it into dropbox.  :)








 

The universities attended

game pieces

The applicants

  

The famous sought after  jobs.