So, on Tuesday I went back to my practicum class, a nervous wreck, just waiting to see what disaster was lying in wait for me this week. I had prepared an inductive, task-based lesson on negation using Dr. Seuss’s les Oeufs Verts au Jambon as my text. (Have you ever noticed what a negative story it […]

So, I went back up to MPC to give it another shot and this time went much better. Hopefully my CT and I are working out the kinks and we’ll find a comfortable pattern here. I did a really nice activity with the class that lasted about 35 mins. We listened to some music, studied […]

So, last week was my first real practice teaching following my observation hours. It was just OK. It didn’t go how I planned, but what ever does? Prior to the class, per the instructor’s request, I made a lesson plan to teach the conditional mood. I designed a fabulous inductive lesson based on a well-known […]

Unit 2 Lesson Plan- Thursday March 7th 2013 Lesson Outline This is the complete lesson plan that I was planning to teach on March 7th in the PRC. Due to the time constraints, I only could teach the first section of it. Target Audience & Context: Beginners/ Low Intermediate/ level ESL class of 10-14 students […]

Leslie raises a very good point about the role of a textbook in a Foreign Language class (it’s a different issue again, I think, for Second Language contexts).  $140 is an awful lot of money and makes it difficult to provide the standard response: use the textbook as much as possible for homework and do […]

Hey everyone.  This is Monica. So we’ve been talking about different strategies for group collaboration and cooperative learning… one of which is brainstorming. In my jigsaw reading, one of the sections was about brainstorming. I shared with the class that what I liked most was the idea of  ‘hitchhiking,’ or that when brainstorming no idea […]

SMOKING UNIT PLAN Lesson 1 1. Video of a smoker/ old cigarette commercials 2. Groups of four- discuss smoking norms in their own countries 3. Homework: read text and highlight unfamiliar words Lesson 2 1. Warmup- vocabulary matching game 2. 4 Groups of 4- each group is in charge of sections  (i.e. 1-3, 4-6,7-9, 10-11) […]

I went up to MPC today for my first two hours of observation of French 2A. It was a lot of fun. Lisa is a great teacher. She has good rapport with her students that she achieves through a mixture of confidence, humor, and patience. The students really seem to respond to her. I admire this. There […]