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I end up my Practicum Period with this reflexion...

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I end up my Practicum Period with this reflexion...

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Choose a quotation that represents an event, knowledge, insight in this lesson.

During the lesson, I encouraged students to use their critical thinking in the development of collaborative and production tasks. In this sense, I helped students to be active participants and at the same time responsible of their own learning process. Because as the quotation says, the best way to teach is guiding students to show the path of learning, but leaving them the opportunity to explore and learn about culture and language by themselves... "show them where to look but not what to see".
Also, by doing this, I helped them to acquire meaningful values by their daily lives as collaboration, imagination, self-esteem and respect for other´s perspectives about a certain topic.

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Choose a quotation that represents an event, knowledge, insight in this lesson.

During this lesson, students were able to discover and explore knowledge by themselves through collaborative and production tasks.
Students felt really motivated and encouraged to explore their L2 language, becoming active learners on their own language process.
Also, through games and other freely activities, we are encouraging students to be active learners. Students need to be invoved on their learning process, as teachers we need to focus our teaching lessons on teaching students to see what they learn with critical perspectives. They are not empty containers that we have to fill with knowledge, seeing students as passive learners. We need to motivate them to learn, to explore and to construct their own knowledge, in other words, we need to learn students to think & see the world with critical thinking & vision.

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How did the students react to your teaching, to the activities and the materials? How did they react to the lesson?

Students felt really motivated to reflect on their own learning process by completing a liveworksheet activity. Then, they enjoyed working collaboratively in production tasks.
From the beginning to the end of the lesson, students felt motivated, making themselves active learners of the teaching-learning process inside the classroom.
Also, the classroom atmosphere felt lovely!

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What aspects of the lesson do you consider successful?

During the lesson, I invited students to work on their own learning process by collaborative work. In this sense, students were involved on the development of reflective tasks in order to build a bridge between prior and new knowledge.

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Choose a moment that was important for the students during the lesson. Describe it and say why it was important.

During the presentation, I invited students to play a game in groups. During the game, students worked collaboratively to win the game and they were really motivated during the development of the game. Students were able to show all the knowledge they have learned about jobs and occupations in a funny way, making them realiza how much do they know about the topic discussed.

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Include a photo of a moment in the lesson, or a task students did, a picture from the board or any other lesson component you would like to share, and describe it.

As a closure activity, I invite students to listen to some popular songs and choose the correct grammar structures used. What I really like of this activity is seeing students really engaged and motivated to develop the activity and also, how they are able to recognize some songs that they know and reflect on the instruction given in pairs or groups.

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TeacherGalla May 12, 2020

Task description & scene summary

Multiple choice exercise to identify the different future tenses in English through listening to popular songs.

Seven different popular songs and videoclips that include the future tenses in their lyrics.

Video length: 2 minutes 6 seconds

Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike License

First published: 2020-05-12, 15:40:14 (GMT+1)

KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:

"iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English."
Kieran Donaghy,
Creator ofFilmEnglish.com, a site with hundreds of high quality, free ESL/EFL lesson plans created around short films

Video quiz questions (printable)

1) The future tense was...

2) The future tense was...

3) The future tense was...

4) The future tense was...

5) The future tense was...

will / won't

be going to

future continuous

present continuous

6) The future tense was...

7) The future tense was...

KIERAN DONAGHY ABOUT ISLCOLLECTIVE VIDEO QUIZZES:

"iSLCollective Interactive Video Quizzes are highly engaging and motivating multimodal texts for English language students to learn vocabulary and improve their listening skills. They are the perfect complement to the creative and innovative lesson plans on Film English."
Kieran Donaghy,
Creator ofFilmEnglish.com, a site with hundreds of high quality, free ESL/EFL lesson plans created around short films

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Future Tense in Songs - English ESL video lesson

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Home Video lessons Future Tense in Songs TeacherGalla May 12, 2020 Multiple choice exercise to identify the different future tenses in English through listening to popular songs. Seven different popular songs and videoclips that include the future tenses in their lyrics.

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What do you find useful of this lesson that will help you plan the next one?

During this lesson, I found that students were really engaged and motivated on working collaboratively in all the stages of the lesson. Also, students were able to put into practise not only what they´ve learned during this year, but also what knowledge they´ve gained thoughout their passage through school and the institution in which they learned a second language showing them how interculturality can be analyzed from different perspectives.
What I found really useful from this lesson is finding strategies / methods which help them to use more English language than their mother tongue in their language´s learning process.

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What aspects of the lesson do you consider successful?

During the lesson, students were really open to work on collabotaive tasks in which they have to make use of the knowledge they´ve acquired from previous lessons as well as the new knowledge learned. Also, students try to express their ideas / perspectives by using more English language than their mother tongue language. I believe that building a safe and respectful lesson´s atmosphere is what is helping them to develop their language skills more effectively.

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How did they react to the lesson?

When I started the lesson, I asked them to see a video related to the topic of the unit and they were really enthusiastic with the idea. While they were guessing how the future will be, they were able to talk about it by making use of the vocabulary as well as the time markers they´ve learned so far.
After that, I asked students to work in groups throughout a game in which they have to check homework exercises. In this sense, they were really motivated and engaged with the game analyzing the sentences and challenguing their peers to say  write sentences to win one point for its group.  Throughout this game, students felt challengued and lost at the beginning, but after an example I gave of game´s rules, they were able to do it by themselves.

They felt motivated and  encouraged to show what they´ve learned most of the time in class. Also, they were able to do collaborative work without discourage anybody. They seemed very open-minded students, accepting the challengues proposed and took them into action.

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What teaching strategies did you use? Which ones were effective? Why / why not?

During today´s lesson, students face some difficulties with the activities as they have to reflect on the knowledge they´ve learned so far. As I saw them a bit lost with the activities, I used some strategies such as visual aids (Power Point) with useful examples to illustrate theory background, open-ended questions to make them reflect on the examples they had to find in the text given and how to complete the task. By using these strategies, they were able to complete the activities by themselves, even though they told me that they need more time and explanation to understand the new information provided throughout the lesson.

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Lesson 19th August

Describe the lesson in terms of a metaphor.

In this lesson, I gave students some responsibility by being active learners and construct meaningful knowledge through multitask activities.
One aspect to highlight was  how working collaboratively helped students to construct knowledge by themselves.
Another important aspect was related to the encouragement given on students, which helped them to feel motivated to try to use L2 to show their understanding about the topic presented.

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Include a photo of a moment in the lesson, or a task students did, a picture from the board or any other lesson component you would like to share, and describe it.

During the first lesson, students came to the
lesson really talkative, which was perfect for the first task of the lesson.

When I told them that we will play a game, they felt really enthusiastic with the idea, and they spent a really good time all together. The game was a mixed matching activity: match the word with the correct definition and also match the phrase with the correct grammar structure from the ones  they´ve acquire.

From my point of view as their teacher, I felt
really proud for them because they could use L2 to express their opinions, and also they were able to use the vocabulary and their critical thinking to find the reasons why they chose one of the answers given to match it with the
question / definition. Making them speak L2 is really hard, but  I know that multimedia devices are really useful.

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