Week 12

March 29, 2011

The first half of the week we continued learning new material and covering material from last week. We are working on circumlocution and learning to how describe something when we don’t know the word. We do this a bunch on English if we can’t think of a word, we talk in circles to describe it. This was challenging at first for some students. I think after multiple examples, most everyone was getting the hang of it..

The students are doing well and accepting me as their teacher. The time is flying by and I can’t believe it is almost spring break. We are all kind of trying to “survive” this week and I am anxious for the break and time to put together all of my information from my LAMP unit I am finishing up.

March 31, 2011

Today was our last day of the week (we all got Friday off). I still had students leave on vacation even earlier than Friday. Today was also block day aka busy day! We spent the first part of class working on material from earlier this week. The second half of class we spent time playing review games.

The students did well with the review games. The first one was a triangle word puzzle and it was very difficult. I designed it and used information we learned during my LAMP unit. The students worked in their pods to complete it. Later, we played a version of the casino game Craps practicing the preterit. This was pretty fun and some of the students got really competitive with it!
For the last few minutes of class we did something different ☺ The current YouTube hit is a song called “Friday” by Rebecca Black. There are MANY parodies of this song. First, I showed the students the English version; most students had already seen it. Then I showed them the Spanish version created by Zachary Jones, a Spanish teacher. (http://www.zachary-jones.com) Each student received a copy of the Spanish lyrics and were encouraged to sing along ;) It was a fun way to end class before spring break.