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Terrifying! Adolescents!
OMG!
I have to make a cool impression to be able to have a good rapport with sts.
The student's book is very dense in content and weird in its organization. It is divided into skills, so the units include only one skill at a time -which in my opinion is rather strange and unnatural. I'll try to do my best to make the class interesting and easy to follow. First lesson skill is reading.

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To my surprise  students were very freindly and eager to participate! In fact they contributed a lot! My timing was blown away by that!
They talked a lot about hobbies and interests.
They all wanted to read and volunteered.
We had a great time but I couldn´t finish the round up activity.

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I have to introduce two new topics "reported speech" and "used to".
I will start the class with a game, I hope they like it!
It is a simple triggering activity.
Today's lesson skill is speaking.

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The students were very competitive and wanted to go on playing the triggering activity! We had a lot of fun!
As regards the activities, they worked really well.
I could not get the correct audio that was a stressing moment! i had tried them before hand but I couldn't get it right! Finally I could fing it!
Students liked the cellphone photocopy activity and were enthusiastic about completing it.
My timing again was not correct! It took them longer to  complete the activities. Probably I was too ambitious.
they could get new topics quite easily. I was satisfied.

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We will recycle reported speech and introduce some new vocabulary.
Strange facts and opinions about them will be the main topics.
I will try to to make it appealing by introducing famous poeple's strange facts.  We will go from more controlled practice to freer opinions.

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The class ran smoothly. This time, they could work better in a less structured class. they were engaged and they liked the idea of thinking "like" a creature (recreating the possible point of view).
They described funny situations and could express creatures' feelings quite well!
It was really fun but it didn't change much their taste for small creatures.

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Students liked the strange facts and could give their opinions and express ideas about them.
They could report what they heard, had some doubts and we could discuss them. They could easily predict other changes in reported speech. It is in fact a quite curious group.
I encourged students to use the expressions propposed in the activity and they could use them quite well.

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This new lesson introduces a change, it is less structured and moves away from the textbook.  The idea is that they use their imagination and think about their thoughts and own ideas. A sort of "Thinking Routine" (Know, Want, Learn).
I will introduce a poem, which is great to expose them to authentic material.

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Students were very nervous because they had an important oral presentation (Social Sciences) in the next period, so they were quite desconcentrated.
They had difficulties in thinking about their own thoughts!
They understood the idea but as it was so unusual that they didn't know how to complete the required task. It was simple but unusual. They liked the poem and eventually they enjoyed working with it!
The final task (writing their own poem) was fun and really creative! It really reflected their interests and thoughts, I think they enjoyed it a lot.

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Again I decided to work with another paradigm. A poem will introduce them to a different point of view, and will help them understand different perspectives to look at things.
It will be connected to the thread of the unit "Hobbies and interests" and activities they had tried when they were younger -for intance playing with mud or jumping in puddles or chasing woolice.
They will work with situations and feelings and they will be analysing other creatures' point of view.