Pronoun Worksheet:
Market Activity Handouts: Cut out the pictures before class and put them in envelopes to give to members of the selling teams.
This lesson plan had various degrees of effectiveness in my three classes. In my most beginner class (Monday), we did not have time for the market activity, which I moved to the next class. Instead, we spent a lot of time on examples, pronunciation, and activities in the book. My instructions seemed clear and comprehensive, but without the diversion of a game, things got tedious.
In my more advanced class (Tuesday), we completed the market activity with relatively little chaos, and it seemed to be an effective way to practice what we had learned. In hindsight, I would have given students more sentence structures and vocabulary to use in the market dialogue because though the activity was dynamic, there was not a lot of meat after students grasped demonstratives.
In my Wednesday class which has both beginners and advanced beginners and the most variable levels of attendance and motivation, I made a huge mistake: I forgot the envelopes with the pictures for the market activity. Students still had handouts with pictures of the items, but these could only be used for reference in the activity. I adapted by having sellers write the names of products in the various quadrants, rather than placing pictures. This solution sufficed, but all variables considered, it was not as tight or as effective of a class as the other two.
And lastly, a self-evaluation...
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