Song with Adjectives

Hi Students!

Here I have this Miley Cyrus song called "7 things".
What I want you to do is to look for the lyrics online and make a list of adjectives that you could find.

Here there is a link of the song on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbYAViBVWBk

Can you post a link of a song which has a lot of adjectives?

Week 2

This week was very short for me with my 7th graders.  Because of some national holidays we had only one period of class.

August 14th (45 min.)

The class goals were two:

• Finishing their poster about the extreme place.
• Grading their work.

The students worked really concentrated in the activity.  Most of them finished the activity, but there was a pair of boys who didn't get to finish the activity. They were really interested and they seemed to be enganged in the poster design. They made a lot of efforts in decorating their posters.

I graded a few of the posters. I have to grade the rest of the poster next class, during the brief "exhibit" that we will have. I will post some pictures the next week.

Making the students working on a poster was very fun for them.  I also noticed that students paid a lot of attention and they did their best in this activity. That is why I'm going to implement the same activity with other grades.

I will be writing about this in a few weeks.

Another thing that I'm want to do is to make my students make some comments on my post. It will be like an extra work for them.

First Week (August 7th-9th)

Due to time problems, I have decided to post about my lessons once a week instead of doing it right after the class delivered.

August 7th (45 min.)

I just started to put into practice the concept of putting the class activities on the board.
I wrote the class activities which where the following:

• Reading the text "Extreme Amazon"
• Underlying the adjectives they could find the text.
• Circlyng the new words of text.

The idea was that the students could identify the adjectives, which we have been studying for the last week.
The secondary object was to identify new words from the text and make the students to help each other to find out the meaning of these words.

I think that having the students aware of what  the day activities  were, helped me to avoid the common problem of having students "lost".
They did a great job identifying the adjectives. They tended to confuse some nouns with adjectives.

I'm really glad about the performance of the students in these activities, even though they were not very funny or maybe appealing for them.

August 8th (90 min.)

I continued writing the class activities on the board. The activities were the following:

• Reading the text "Extreme Amazon" again.
• Answering five multiple choice questions.
• Creating a dialog in pairs using superlatives.
• Performing the dialog in front of the class.

It was very easy for the students to answer the questions. They got really engaged in this activity. I think that the reading comprehension was easy for them, because they have a good level of English.

Preparing the dialog took longer than I thought. I guess that productive skills are harder for learners.  I was amazed by the students creations.  They did a great job, they make the conversation very funny and we have a lot of fun when the students presented their dialogs in front of the rest of their classmates.  Some of them actually acted it out!

It was a really fun class. I had fun, and it seems to me that they did have fun ,too.

Placing the class activities on the board was very helpful for the students.

August 9th (90 min.)

This class was a bit different from the other previous ones.  It was time for us to work on a small project. The activities were the following:

• Answering a few questions about the extreme place they previously chose. 
• Showing the questions to the teacher to check them.
• Working on a piece of cardboard. Including 5 pictures of the place chosen, ans writing the information asked.

This lesson was a lot longer than I thought, they didn't finish the activity in the class time! I will have to continue on Wednesday.

I explained the activity through steps. They were following the steps that were written on the board.

They did a great job and they were really concentrated to work on this.  Maybe because this was an evaluation process.

The idea is that next class they finish, and next week we will have a brief exhibition in which they will talk about their place.

Purpose of this Blog

I am writing this blog entry to mention the reasons why I am starting this new blog. There are two main ideas why I am writing this. The first one refers to my desire to improve my English skills, and the second one refers to an online course that I am taking nowadays. 

I used to believe that one of my strongest skills when it comes to English was writing. However, that dream ended when I first took the FCE test in 2010 and my lowest score was on writing. Now, in 2013 I took this test again and I got a decent score, "good" as they labeled it, but I wanted an "exceptional" mark on this field. I think that I really have to improve this skill and for me the best way to do it, is by posting online my personal experience with a group of students that I have.  

Apart from what I mentioned in previous paragraph. I am taking a class online named Ciselt in which I have to put into practice "Reflective Teaching" practice. 

So, I am going to try to post every time a have a lesson with this lovely group of students, to see how I can improve my teaching practice and my writing.