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Hi,
I think this is a very practical project as we can do some research on a method and put it into practice in a real classroom (bless our poor undergraduate guinea-pigs!!!) And I´m delighted we´ve been assigned TBLT as it´s an area I had some knowledge of before the Masters and I´ve recently read up on it for the Language Exchange Project with Brazil. And what´s more it´s a fun, dinamic way to learn and teach.
To get the ball rolling for our class we´ve picked 4 lesson plans from a list of 7 (that we´d looked for on various websites) and from this choice we´ve sent a Google Forms questionnaire to the undergrad students to take their pick for which lesson / aspects they´d like to cover. Hope they choose an easy one! I think this system of choosing content will give more meaning to the class, which is very much in line with TBLT. From that questionaire we´ll get cracking on lesson planning and how to organise our roles as the teachers.
How´s everyone else feeling about this project?
See you,
Geraldine

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Hi everybody!
We were assigned TBLT and I have to say that I didn't know anything about this methodology. Well, I have to confess, I didn't know about any methodology 😭
For me, this is a new way to work with the students and having read something about it, now, I have an idea about what it is.
We are working for the 17th class with our undergraduate students thinking about the activity.
As Geraldine told you, we let the students choose the topic they would like to learn about and we are preparing the class.
The following days, we'll meet to organise the session.
Feeling nervous to face a real class but trying to do our best!

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Hi! Here you have the results of the survey we provide to the undergraduate students.
So we were thinking about carrying out our third option which is "Robbery in a sweet shop".
The theoretical part we have to explain here are verbs followed by TO+INFINITIVE

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Hello everybody! How are you today? Cloudy but fantastic day, isn't it?
Well, I am going to explain here how we are going to divide the class tomorrow and which parts we'll explain to the students.
The first part is the INTRODUCTION TO THE TASK (Robbery in a sweet shop)
I (Cristina) have to introduce ourselves and divide the class into groups of 4 or 5 people. (pre-task)Then, I will tell the students that this story is real, from the Guardian newspaper. I will give them several words and they have to guess the meaning of the words and also what's the story about.
Our partner Laura, is going to interact with the students with several activities (task) and finally, our partner Geraldine is going to explain the post-task which is the theoretical part and solve any doubts that may arise.
At the end of the lesson, we will give the students the opportunity to assess our class providing them a QR code, an email or if they prefer face to face in class.

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Here you have the guide we are going to use for tomorrow's lesson

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This is the worksheet for the students to do this task.

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Our PP is ready to be used in the class. Hope they enjoy the lesson or at least, they learn something new.

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Teaching me softly power point presentation

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The class was very productive

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The class was entertaining and interesting. I thought it was a great idea to practice writing trying to figure out the story.

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The class was funny! The best part for me was the story telling.
They did it very good and it was interesting!

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Here you'll find the corrections for the writings the students did yesterday.

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Hi!
I was very nervous (as always) at the beginning because I've never taught undergraduate students, but definitely it has been a pleasant experience.
These are the things that make you remember why you chose this career path. I am not sure if I will get this job in a futuro, but I have one thing clear, I love teaching.
For me, it has been one of the best experiences in my life.
The students were participative, paying attention to us and collaborative.
Besides that, I have algo learnt from myself, and from my partners Geraldine and Laura. I think we are a very good team!
Thanks to you, students.
Thanks to you Abraham.
Thanks everybody for coming to the class and enjoy our lesson.

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THANK YOU AND HAVE A NICE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS! ☃️❄🎄

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Like Cristina says, I feel really thankful for the chance to share teaching a class with my teammates, Cris and Laura and such a welcoming and participative group of students.
I have to admit that we were lucky being giving TBLT, as it is a dynamic method that is based on concepts that I consider important: focus on meaning; group work and communicative tasks and focus on form.
I feel that the class went well as the students seemed to have learnt something new (!) and got involved and we put the TBLT method into practice.
Points to improve would definitly be creating heterogeneous or random groups at the beginning and also being too ambitious with what content we could cover in 50 mins.
You live and learn they say!
A great experience.

Geraldine