Getting To Know You! (Elementary3) group 2

Well a new class,a new term.More interactions to explore!
Well all men in the class! ,though some students didn't come.
(In the next class there was one female student(Samia).

I did some getting to know actvities,I'll do more in the next lesson.
As it was the first lesson it's not easy to observe the students'interactions but

Apart from the getting to know actvities I did some preparation work on house/furniture vocabulary.For the end of the class I did the interactive game(revising furniture vocab)from
the digital version of English File book.

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:

1. Getting to know each other: Group 2:Elementary 3 ,mostly male students with just one female student.All the students are Tunisians except for one male student from Italy.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 a warmer to lead into the students introducing themselves.

1. Did the students contribute actively to the lesson? Yes,though it took a while for the students to interact with each other to make a contribution to the lesson. 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?  I noticed that some of the students were motivated as they asked the teacher for help with some of the activities but it was more a case of the students preferring to interact with the teacher rather than with each other.  5. Were there any problems that occurred? Not all the students were there for this first class of the course. 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.