Getting to Know You (Elementary 3 Wed/Friday class)

Group 1:Elementary 3 ,a good mix of male/female students and nationalities,ranging from Tunisia,Chad,the Congo,Madagascar.I did some getting to know activities I used a video(from the British Council
Premier Skills English web site ) of football fans of the English League introducing themselves,which was an interesting way to lead into the students introducing themselves.


I put language of agreement/disagreement on the board as support.

From the book Reflective Teaching in Second Language Classrooms,Richards,J.C.,in the chapter,approaches to classroom investigation,some important procedures are recommended:
Bailey 1990,Porter et al.1990,Walker 1985 state that it's important to make entries on a regular basis and immediately spend time after the lesson in writing up about the lesson
In addition to review the journal entries as some things which were not obviously apparent might appear so later on.

On page 16 Richards,J.C. mentions some reflection questions to guide the writing of the journal:

Here are the questions that I chose to focus on for reflecting on the students’ interactions and performance in completing the activity:

1. Did the students contribute actively to the lesson? Yes,by interacting with each other in working out the correct questions and helping each other with writing the names of the counties and nationalities. 2. Were the students challenged by the lesson? Apart from the getting to know activities the students completed a student profile about themselves and then worked out the correct questions for the information. 3. What did the students learn from the lesson? The video was useful for the students revising/introducing names of countries and nationalities. 4. Did anything amusing or unusual happen? In this class I noticed lots of interaction between the students when they helped each other with working out the questions and comparing/checking the answers.  5. Were there any problems that occurred? None. 6. Which part of the lesson was most successful or least successful? The students discovered information about each other and at the end of the lesson the students watched another Premier Skills video,in which the fans talked about their favourite words.