Wed 10 Mar - LAB

Today in the lab we went through common errors for level 6 and I explained the idea of fossilization. While it did take some time for them to locate the errors in the handout, many attempts were still wrong, even when doing it in pairs. So I hope that noticing and correcting was useful for them. There are still a number of spelling mistakes they continue to make, so we'll be working on that in a further class. I gave them time to identify which types of errors they may be in danger of fossilizing.

As this took a bit longer than planned (although I'd given it 35 minutes), I wasn't sure whether to do the bookwork as planned or not. In the end we did, but it also took more time and I sort of rushed it to finish it quickly in order to make time for the last activity. As it was, I didn't finish the final activity and in hindsight it would have been better to skip the bookwork and go straight to that final activity. I had to finish the video task the next day, but it should have been done all together.

We watched Louis Theroux's "The Hypnotists" video - three excerpts from it, and I'd prepared a handout with questions on each. Some questions were inferencing; some were listening for specific information; and some were questions asking their opinion. I think they worked well.