Hello again!
We had the first lessons today and they were great! We first met at the café at Christ Church Campus and went to our classroom in the Moore building. Our morning teacher is Patrick and the afternoon teacher's name is Isabel. We started doing a getting to know you activity by throwing around Fred (a little Teddy bear) and asking three questions to the person...this is repeated until everyone has had the teddy and asked someone else. Next, we've taken a multiple choice test to check our level of English. We also dealt with pair work and group work and he gave us ideas to put students in pairs. The best option is to do it randomly by using little games to find the partner. After that, he took us on a short tour to show us the main places to visit in Canterbury and after lunch, we kept on working with some icebreakers and the error correction. Patrick told us some ideas to correct mistakes and an error correction code. He also pointed out that we must not over correct our students and that the best way for them to learn is by making the students correct themselves, once we have identified the mistake (we underline the word and identify the type of mistake, w for wrong word, for example). In the speaking we can use cards to avoid interruption while they are speaking...It's been a very profitable day!!!!
In the evening, the school invited us to a BBQ in a pub which was really tasty and we were chatting with classmates and with one of the organizers, Charlie.
We had a good laugh!
We leave you some pictures of today (timetable, map of campus and lunch).
I forgot to tell you that there are 2 Japanese, a Polish, a French and 4 Spanish in the class. Believe it or not, the Spanish we all speak in English among us!!! It's fantastic
Good night to everyone
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| LUNCH |
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| GARDENS IN CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY |
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