Wow, it felt like I had a marathon teaching week last week. It wasn't until Saturday afternoon that I realized just how exhausted I felt. I spent most of the weekend in a post-work funk that went away late last night. I wasn't feeling too inspired this week but usefulness sometimes trumps creativity. That's why I decided to take it easy this week and use some pre-prepared lesson plans, something I rarely do.
Thursday 3-4pm: A Trip to The Baker School
I'm a big fan of the Baker Street activity where students have to take the clues given to them to draw a complete picture of who lives where, drinks what, reads what, and etc. I have all beginner level English Corners this week so doing something like this where the more advanced students can help the beginner students is great. Although it seems like this activity is designed for students much younger than mine, I want to test its usefulness in the English Corner setting and see if I should get to work on writing some more of my own. Of course, I'm still wondering where I'm going to find the time to do all of this so called writing I always talk about.
Friday 2-3pm: Really?
A few weeks ago, I had great success with an activity I called Secret Partners (to be posted soon.) I felt this one was a success because it had the whole class interacting with each other and it's my goal to recreate that same environment again. I'm sure other teachers have the clique problem that I do, even at the adult level. The classic example of this activity is "Find Someone Who" but you can only use that once and then you're left on your own when you have hundreds of other English Corners you need to facilitate. I'm going to rewrite the material in this lesson to suit my own students, something similar to a gossip article. My students love to gossip so this is a natural choice.
Saturday 2-3pm: Getting Into Trouble
This is another one of my Breakfast at Tiffany's inspired lesson plans. I'm going to use the scene where Holly tells Paul about what she does when she goes to Sing Sing to visit Sally Tomato, mainly giving the “weather report.” Paul then wonders if Holly could get into some trouble. So I hope to design the whole lesson around functional language for beginners around the subject of trouble. I'm trying to use more role plays in class which has been challenging. I'm thinking I might need to use some improv warm ups in class to get them out of their comfort zone. Then, I'll ease them into the role plays.
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