The Thief,His Mother and 2 Billion Dollars

Today's topic was the news and a crime story 'The Thief,His Mother and 2 Billion dollars ',a story about a man who had stolen over two hundred paintings!
Plus simple past and past continuous.

Predicting the story stage:
In two groups the students used the verbs,connected with the story,to discuss a possible story,it was Houda and Zied who interacted most of all in group A,whilst in group B,Sadok,Marwa,Semia,Afef and Ghada.

Making up a funny short with the expressions unfortunately and fortunately stage:
Group A enjoyed this activity especially Houda,Sadok and Semia.
In Group B Marwa,who has become more confident in her speaking,Afef,and Ghada also enjoyed the activity.
Meanwhile Makram had switched off and was just making jokes,and later had to leave the class early.
In the previous class it seemed the atmosphere of the class had changed,with Marwa,the young school girl not wanting to work with Makram.In fact,Houda said Makram was strange;it seems he alienating himself via his jokes and his behaviour.

Adverbs Poems!

Today the lesson focused on the adverbs from the James Bond story 'The Man with the Golden Gun' (yesterday's lesson)
and writing a adverb love poem!

Writing in pairs:
The students enjoyed working together on their poems and also their pronunciation.
Houda,as usual,was the student who interacted most of all;the other students seemed a little quiet.

James Bond

Today the topic was James Bond and the film 'The Man with the Golden Gun' and revison of  simple past regular and irregular.The students worked in groups of fours,with the late people joining either group one or group 2.

stage 1: putting the pictures of the story in order and discussing the possible story:
There was lots of interactions between the students either with the students suggesting the right picture
or part of the story and a group concensus of agreement/disagreement.

stage 2: the students listened to the extract of the story and checked/compared with their version and talked about the similarities and differences.Houda in group one and Zied in group two were best in interacting with the other students in their group.Houda showed leadership qualities.

stage 3:the students dicussed the continuation of the story.
Interactions:For some reason,Nabil and Makram switched off from the discussion in their group

Who Let The Dogs Out?!

Today's lesson:
revision of simple past verbs,regular and irregular,forming questions,plus pronunciation of  -ed.
'Let let the dogs out?'listening/reading activity.

Warmer;taking about their favourite animal.

Interactions in the final stage of lesson: Talking about themselves re past events.

The students who interacted most of all were Sadok,Zied,Houda,Houda,Khaula,Nabil and Afef.

Living In Another Country

The main activity today was a jig saw Reading activty on living in another country.


Jigsaw Reading stage:Lots of interactions especially when two students swopped groups:
Although the text was short,the vocabulary might have hindered Yoshi interacting with the others.However,I did pre teach some of the most important vocabulary.
In group B Nabil,Houda and Zied were interacting a lot,

After the discussion I gave the students a reflection questionnaire on the discussion they'd just done,and when they were comparing and discussing their opinions there was further interactions in fact Makram had't really contributed that much to the discussion,apart from little jokes.

Talking About You!

Most of the students came today except Kelly and Nabil.Today's lesson focused on speaking fluency and revision of have v. have got,something simple but some students still get the forms mixed up.There was also a pronunciation spot on Intonation:showing interest and surprise.

Stage of Interactions:

The grammar stage:Houda,again,interacting with her class mate in explaining the construction of the sentences and questions.

The pronunciation stage(at the end of the lesson)where the students enjoyed practising their intonation with the modal dialogues and then adapting them.

Different Lives

For Friday's class the focus was on the lives of two peole with very different backgounds:Anne Marie,a business woman, Canada and Lien, factory worker,from China

Kelly was absent for the class which was a pity,as she's from the Congo,and the discussion could have been even more interesting.

The discussion activity provided lots of interactions for instance when the students talked about the person they found more interesting,most of them preferred Lien from China,they said her life was similar to many Tunisians,which was interesting for Yoshi,the Japanese student:he said 'I'm surprised you found Lien more interesting' He also mentioned ' my country the young people are lazy..'Nabil then mentioned he had recently read an article on Japan.Sadok and Semia also showed a lot of interest in this topic.Though the level of the reading was pretty easy for most of the students the topic stimulated lots of discussion and interactions.