11th REFLECTION, 20-22 DECEMBER

This week on Monday, there were two other presentations including

mine. The first presentation was a “TV program” in which different herbs
against illnesses were discussed by a moderator, a doctor and the
audience which had many different health problems. Lastly, in this
presentation a competition was held, but I witnessed that how important
dividing the class into groups is, because again the presenters just divided
the class into groups and invited us to the stage before giving instructions
clearly, so it caused a chaotic atmosphere on the stage and the presenters
as teachers couldn’t control whether the students use the target language
and its function appropriately. The second presentation was ours and it
was about “weather conditions”. Firstly, one of us, Munise, introduced the
topic with the storytelling technique which required a student to perform
the activities of the story in front of the whole class by using some
accessories and the rest had to mime the movements of the student in the
front as if they were using the same accessories. Next, this was my turn,
the students were divided into groups and the groups were given a role
card. Each group had to prepare a little scene to act out. Grouping, giving
instructions, having the whole class’ attention worked, but there was one
point to pay attention was not to touch the students during the
presentation. On Wednesday, I couldn’t come to school because my
illness, that’s why I missed two demonstrations, so I couldn’t comment on
them

Duygu ALDEMİR, 20TH AND 22ND DECEMBER 2010