Hi!
Today is our really last class of the course. Next Thursday we must present our own didactic unit to the others teachers as if they would been our pupils. ¡Horror!
David has told us how we must do this last remark and also he has recommended us: BE HONEST!. I'll do what I can (about english I want say!!! because I am always honest)
Starting course, David said that we have to work about 30 hours in class and 45 at home, but I have needed 30 hours in class but at home...... 150.
It had been a hard course for me, but I have really enjoyed until today.
We have had many exersices on grammar sheets; we have surfed on the net and we have learned many thing about Martin Luther King, we have travelled safety, we have cooked, we have bought our best clothes for this summer and we have remembered folk tales like Goldielock and the three bears.
It's possible we might speak more in english along the sessions but that is our fault.
Well, I thing I have wrote enough.
Thank you very much, David and partners! I hope to find you in the next Teacher' English Course!
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Tomas´& Ana ´s reflexion of english course.
We have done a lot activities which they have improved our english. But we could have worked more. Our problem was that we hadn´t time.
The last english session have clashed with the second evaluation. Now, we are speaking better english that before, although it´s very difficult to speak english when we are living in Spain. We think that we could not speak spanish in english session, but we haven´t done it.
The activities that prepared our teacher, David, were very funny. We have laughed a lot while we are working together in our english session. Perhaps in the future, we could study other english course in Villablanca School.
It´s neccesay a lot of hours to speak a good english.
It´s very confortable to work with the wiki. So everyone can work when he have time.
Also to learn english we have improved our knowledge informatics. Before we haven´t worked with the wiki and we didn´t know the blogs.
The last english session have clashed with the second evaluation. Now, we are speaking better english that before, although it´s very difficult to speak english when we are living in Spain. We think that we could not speak spanish in english session, but we haven´t done it.
The activities that prepared our teacher, David, were very funny. We have laughed a lot while we are working together in our english session. Perhaps in the future, we could study other english course in Villablanca School.
It´s neccesay a lot of hours to speak a good english.
It´s very confortable to work with the wiki. So everyone can work when he have time.
Also to learn english we have improved our knowledge informatics. Before we haven´t worked with the wiki and we didn´t know the blogs.
final post
Hi colleagues! This is the end of the course.By one side I feel happy because This course gives me a lot of work, and I have done all, each week, each day. I have read everything,and I have listen to everything and I have watched everything that I had to do. I know that perhaps is easier for me than others because I understand english quite well, but sometimes I felt hopeless because I felt that all my work have no sense because we did'nt work these things in class or worst after all we had time in class to do that. I think in my pupils, and I wonder if sometimes the pupils that really work feel like me in class. I don't have much time, I have three little children so I really have made a big effort, I really want to improve my english so I know that really I never wasted my time but sometimes I can't avoid to feel hopeless. Everybody is agree that it should be better if it was different levels but it couldn't be because we were not enough .It is a pity.
Most of the time I enjoyed the course but sometimes I'd like that some activities were faster, we spent to much time in theater, it was funny but i dind't learn so much with it althoug I think that this kind of activities was not special for me
I undestand the effort to do things to people with some different english levels and perhaps it was the only way, but some of us have the feeling that it was so difficult and others the feeling that perhaps we could have learn more.I know more english than before start the course and I have remembered a lot of things that I already known but I finish the course with the feeling that is not enough, in seventy hours I should learn more or at least it was my hope.
Most of the time I enjoyed the course but sometimes I'd like that some activities were faster, we spent to much time in theater, it was funny but i dind't learn so much with it althoug I think that this kind of activities was not special for me
I undestand the effort to do things to people with some different english levels and perhaps it was the only way, but some of us have the feeling that it was so difficult and others the feeling that perhaps we could have learn more.I know more english than before start the course and I have remembered a lot of things that I already known but I finish the course with the feeling that is not enough, in seventy hours I should learn more or at least it was my hope.
We are getting there
Hi everybody!!!
We are all feeling the exhaustion proper of this time of the year prior to the well deserved Easter holidays. YEEEESSSS!!!!!!!
well, now let us be serious. THe case is that we are all working in our didactic units to present them next week as thee final requisite to obtain the certificate for the course. On today's session we are simply allow time to catch up with delayed work, ask questions on course contents, or simply to polish our units with their activities.
I would love before we close this course that everyone posted a final reflection journal entry in the blog as a way to recap what we have (not) done in this course, how ever much (little) i take from this course, what i would have done differently, if my expectations were fulfilled and others you would like to ask.
This final requirement would help us analyze our performance and the others', and put in perspective our work.
Thanks a lot for your hard work.
We are all feeling the exhaustion proper of this time of the year prior to the well deserved Easter holidays. YEEEESSSS!!!!!!!
well, now let us be serious. THe case is that we are all working in our didactic units to present them next week as thee final requisite to obtain the certificate for the course. On today's session we are simply allow time to catch up with delayed work, ask questions on course contents, or simply to polish our units with their activities.
I would love before we close this course that everyone posted a final reflection journal entry in the blog as a way to recap what we have (not) done in this course, how ever much (little) i take from this course, what i would have done differently, if my expectations were fulfilled and others you would like to ask.
This final requirement would help us analyze our performance and the others', and put in perspective our work.
Thanks a lot for your hard work.
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Videos and audio posted
Hi again!
I forgot to say that videos we recorded about the tramp, and audio with the furby story, are available on the wiki.
You can find them in the folders section on the right hand side of the front page, inside the folder with the name "Audio and Video docs"
I hope you enjoyed them like I did.
I forgot to say that videos we recorded about the tramp, and audio with the furby story, are available on the wiki.
You can find them in the folders section on the right hand side of the front page, inside the folder with the name "Audio and Video docs"
I hope you enjoyed them like I did.
Fashion
Hi everyone again!
Another session we start, and now we have to face the use of delicious as a social bookmarking tool. We will start the class with it and, like I said, this time I do not give you clear direct links for elements we must view and read.
I provide you with a general array of sources from where the learner autonomously has to decide in which direction to go, and from there, start building.
I know it is a bit strange at first when you are left out there on your own to explore new things, but this is the exact method we should extend with our students: give them autonomy, guide them and help them face questions and seek the solutions to the problem.
Once you get used to it, it does not feel that strange any more. Believe me.
well, it is going to be another fruitful session.
Cheers
Another session we start, and now we have to face the use of delicious as a social bookmarking tool. We will start the class with it and, like I said, this time I do not give you clear direct links for elements we must view and read.
I provide you with a general array of sources from where the learner autonomously has to decide in which direction to go, and from there, start building.
I know it is a bit strange at first when you are left out there on your own to explore new things, but this is the exact method we should extend with our students: give them autonomy, guide them and help them face questions and seek the solutions to the problem.
Once you get used to it, it does not feel that strange any more. Believe me.
well, it is going to be another fruitful session.
Cheers
Monday, March 9, 2009
This week the topic is fashion, but I think that the links David has given us are too wide. You can spent hours lose in the web and after all have the feeling that you haven´t learnt nothing and that you can´t speak nothing of what you have seen beacause it is very improbably that your collegues have seen the same as you. I prefered the links of the firsts weeks: MLK, plan crashes, the weather in london.. because I really had the feeling that I had learned something in english and the little time I had was good employed.
Also I recognice that I have problems with the new technology so I don´t know how to use delicius, in this moment it looks like chinese for me.
Also I recognice that I have problems with the new technology so I don´t know how to use delicius, in this moment it looks like chinese for me.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Cinema, cinema
Hi everybody,
Getting ready for another unforgettable session with the rest of colleagues, and prepared to share some good moments ... and good laughs as well!!!
i would like to remind you about the assignment due last week about web pages connected to our field of expertise; things that we can use in class with our students that come in english, and that we can use for our last session when we present a didactic unit. Just a brief line or two explaining what we can find in them will suffice.
try not to stay too far behind with the grammar revision activities, as later it will be harder to turn in everything.
For this week's session, prepare to watch some clips, trailers connected to awarded films this year, or your all time favorite ones. please share those with the rest of us, and send us some clips for us to watch!
Getting ready for another unforgettable session with the rest of colleagues, and prepared to share some good moments ... and good laughs as well!!!
i would like to remind you about the assignment due last week about web pages connected to our field of expertise; things that we can use in class with our students that come in english, and that we can use for our last session when we present a didactic unit. Just a brief line or two explaining what we can find in them will suffice.
try not to stay too far behind with the grammar revision activities, as later it will be harder to turn in everything.
For this week's session, prepare to watch some clips, trailers connected to awarded films this year, or your all time favorite ones. please share those with the rest of us, and send us some clips for us to watch!
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