Wed Feb 11

Objectives:

Speaking - making observations about visual texts, exchanging information about carnivals

Language awareness - extreme adjectives

Writing - creating a social profile and writing observations on the profiles of others

The journal writing for today was "the last concert you went to". It could be a rock concert, classical, listening to music at a bar, etc. The sts had to describe it in as much detail as possible. I made sure the students felt comfortable not having to share anything they had written if they didn't want to.

I took some time to re-introduce myself, especially for those who hadn't come to Monday's class. Then we went straight to NCE p. 72 - Big Events. We did all the activities on p. 72 & 73, and they talked and participated a lot. The extreme adjectives seemed relatively easy for them.

Then we did an activity called Tunoumi. The sts discussed social profiles on the internet. A number of them are involved in at least one social profile, and talked about what they liked and disliked about them. Then they filled out their own "social profile" called Tunoumi. They could do it any way that they liked. Some were very creative and took a lot of time to fill theirs out nicely. Others did it quickly, and then went back and added more detail. Then they swapped and looked at each others' profile and made comments on them. Those who wrote quickly and had finished early got to see quite a few profiles. I think they really enjoyed this activity, both for writing and creating, and being the audience for others' profiles.

I gave them homework from the workbook - p. 50 & 51, ex. 2 & 3.