Preposition Worksheet:
Pictures for Room Descriptions:
The first staff class in a LONG TIME. Teachers have been swamped with end of the year festivities and Tet holiday. We're back now and chugging along.
This lesson was effective and intimate as teachers (henceforth refered to as students) trickled back and readjusted to the reverse-role classroom routine. Musical chairs was an absolute hit. Students liked the movement and made sure not to repeat stories/feelings from Tet. Energy remained high as we generated vocabulary lists on the blackboard, which were referenced for the duration of class.
The lesson on prepositions was iffy. I had emailed students a detailed preposition chart with meanings and usages before class, but it would have been helpful to provide a print-out version during the lesson. Because I couldn't reproduce the chart on the board and students couldn't listen and record, I resorted to physical demonstrations for most of the words (I am behind the desk; the book is under the chair). Luckily, with the exception of in, on, and at, the words were easy to understand, and we had a worksheet and discussion to review the former.
The most brilliant part of this class was the students' curiosity and desire to learn, and the time we took probing questions and ideas. We spent 15 or 20 minutes on the relatively brief prepositions worksheet, going over exceptions and creating our own rules. We spent 20 or 25 minutes on the room descriptions, rising to the challenges of required specificity and preposition use, then adding to our list of household vocabulary words. Finally, we had a candid conversation about homes in our countries and the things they represent about our cultures. Overall, it was a pretty awesome class.
And lastly, a self-evaluation...
*Preposition worksheet from www.esl-galaxy.com.
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