Thurs Mar 4

Starting with OPP, once again only C and V arrived on time. We went through the Competencies vs. Objectives article. I think I should look for a better one for next time I teach OPP. I'm not even sure if it's Competencies or Competences.

We also began considering objectives for activities 1-3 on page 96 of the textbook (Mysteries, problems, oddities reading). By this time M had turned up and it is obvious that he has best grasped the concept of objectives, while the others still struggle. I suspect that C is distracted by personal issues she is having. Either way, we only did activity 1 before the class began.

The level 6 class was, again, mostly organised around the oral presentations. After about 45 minutes we finished the Larson activity, though; which provided sufficient distractions to not make it a totally boring class. Giving oral presentations can be tedious, especially when there are so many students to "get through", and especially when the last ones, as I'd mentioned, are not the best speakers. I wonder if I can get them to do this presenting it in pairs? Perhaps that will not only be more communicative, but also more interesting and less pressure for each st.

I had organised to listen to the Court of King Caractacus, but it'll have to wait till another day, as it wasn't possible to finish the presentations on time.

The OPP trainees after class discussed the importance of sts going through the process of creating a presentation: reading, choosing, summarizing and presenting along with their opinion. They also noted that the sts remained motivated and interested, despite the long time it took to go through each presentation. Still, I might reconsider how to do this for next time.