Teaching Speaking and Vocabulary (Learning by Doing)

After doing many observations to enhance myself in teaching the four

skills, I think I became more confident about teaching them. Thus, my
focus for this week was to teach speaking and vocabulary to test how I
got the basic skills for teaching it.
According to the previous lessons that I have taught, I have discovered
that learners find games and activities that require movement
interesting. For that reason, I created the puzzle game to introduce the
lesson of Self-Reliance and to make the lesson more motivating. In
fact, this activity raised students awareness of the topic as they had to
rearrange the picture to reveal the topic of the lesson. In addition,
students need opportunities in the classroom to speak and share ideas,
so I included different activities that requires students to speak in the
context of the lesson. To be specify, the speaking cards were effective
as learners were able to share ideas and express their opinions. Also,
asking questions about a picture stimulated them to speak and react to
the questions.
Another goal to involve in my teaching was to apply Learning by
Doing in the different activities. Applying learning by doing was
through asking students to do a little presentation about a machine. I
was really surprised with the outcomes of this activity since learners
were very focused and motivated to create a keynote presentation
about a machine they chose. Students created nice presentations and
they presented them as well. The advantages of this this activity was
that learners were able to listen to descriptions of various machines.
Bedsides that, 21st century skills were included in the lesson, such as
collaborative and communicative skills, critical and creative thinking,
technology literacy and leadership and initiative.
Finally, offering an environment where students can learn by doing is a
good way to help them build their skills by themselves. Whats more, it

HCT/FWC

Mentor: Tracy Munteanu

is crucial to bear in mind the importance of including the 21 st century

skills to prepare learners for 21st century workplace.

Rasha Alzaabi

2014/2015