miércoles, 14 de agosto de 2013

ACTIVITIES FROM TOTAL PHYSICAL RESPONSE (HASTCHI PATSCHI)

WHAT I LIKED FROM MY PRESENTATION

Total Physical Response is a good method that can help the teacher to make funny the way to teach the target language, that is why we implement some different games and in my case i liked that i tried to use a nice game in order to practice how to make some simple questions that sometimes are a little bit difficult for some people. This kind of game is for children but is good when we do not forget what we saw previously. I liked the way to play this game because it was so good and at the same time we practice that is the most important and was the goal for this method.

WHAT I COULD HAVE IMPROVED

I think from this i could have thought in different ways to play the game to avoid a mess in the classroom or maybe I could have changed the method to implement the activity. But I think that the game was good because not only learned some important things but we had fun that is one of the things that pretend this method. I think sometimes I lose the control of the classroom and I think that with better directions I could have had better results.

DID I FEEL COMFORTABLE?

Yes I did. I felt so good because I practiced this game with children and I realized that they learned from me. So at the moment to present it I was relax because as we know working with children is not easy and if they could learn from my activity so my classmates will do it too. I enjoyed it because I would like to teach children in the future. But I felt comfortable with the activity and all the things I did. I will put into practice this activity with people who want to learn another language in order to teach them how easy can do to learn a target language.

WHAT I THINK ABOUT THE ACTIVITIES MY OTHER CLASSMATES PRESENTED.

The game that my partner presented was good too because is useful when you want that your students follw commands and at the same time they could listen very well. Simon Says is a very common activity but sometimes we do not give importance to it because we think it is too simple but it is not. So we can implement this activity with children or when adults, it doesnt matter the age, the important is to learn.

Suggestopedia activities were useful and good. I like Masiel´s activity about the song but sometimes it is difficult to find a good song with common vocabulary but is was good. The role-plays also are good when we are learning and i think they help us to improve many things.

Carmen´s and Ileana´s activities were nice too because we use our memorization with the sentences that our classmates said. It is another way to learn target language.

The activity that Melissa presented I liked because at the same time you learn new vocabulary from a reading you develop this habit. To sum up each of the activities presented were necessary to learn different ways to teach.