Getting to Know Each Other ...

Only nine students today,but Zied had to leave the class early as he had a meeting at work.

I did another warmer activity,from Hadfield's 'Classroom Dynamics' where the students looked at sentences about some of the students in class and work out who the sentence was about.(I got the information for the sentences from the students' letters of introduction).The students enjoyed doing this activity;they used the modal verbs of 'must,might/could and can't be' to make their deductions and of course this activty helped them to get know each other better plus developing the class atmosphere.
As I was doing some pronunciation work I also did a dictionary game and at the end of the lesson the 'Stress Monsters' game from the Oxford English File web site.

Observations on the Interactions:

In the dictionary game most of the students interacted with their peers even the simple interaction of Yoshi asking the another student to repeat the definition.
In the group with Houda,Makram,Semia and Yoshi it's again Houda who interacts most especially with explaining things.In addition Semia and Makram.
In the group with Ghada,Marwa,Kelly and Khawla it was Ghada and Kelly who interacted more but Marwa has become confident in working with the other students.
For the 'Stress Monsters' game Yoshi didn't participate but simply observed maybe because of his character and he might have been assimilating the information about the vocabulary.