Workshop 3 - French Methodology

Bonjour!

For this entry, I will share with you the third workshop that we had in the Teaching Practicum I: Children. We are at the end of the semester at Don Bosco University, and some of us were studying French this semester and some others will studying it the next semester, and that is why our teacher decided to have a guest for this workshop: a French teacher from El Salvador National University, who shared with us the methodologies for teaching French. Also, she cans talk English in a very good way.

As I said above, this workshop gave to us the opportunity of learn about French’s methodologies. Personally, I know a little bit of French because of the university but I did not know about the things that are important to learn. However, before to start about these things, the teacher gave to us the difference between Methods and Methodologies. Method is the material that we as teachers use in our classes, book, worksheets, etc. In the other hand, Methodologies are the ways in which we teach a class base on the necessities of our students.

Moreover, as I mentioned before we learned the aspects that are important for learning or teach French. First, French is a language that focus the attention in grammar and writing, and I as a French student can assure this, because in my learning process of it, I saw how French Teachers focus their attention in teach the grammar and check carefully the way in which in what we write, because French is a really complex language that requires a lot of attention.

To conclude, I have to say that I really enjoy this workshop because we learned lot things that we did not know, and also, it was a great opportunity to think in teach not only English in a future.

Lessons Twenty Two and Twenty Three

Today were delivered two classes, the first was the grammar class, and the second one was the listening class. In today's entry, I will describe the two classes.

Lesson Twenty Two

Teachers: Felix Lopez
                 Gladis Galvez
                 Lourdes Rodriguez
                 Luisa Zamora

Skill: Grammar

To start to develop the class, Teacher Felix showed to students some flashcards with professions and asked the students what was the profession that he was showing? It was good to see that all the students remembered all the professions that were taught previously.

Then, Teacher Gladis took the stage to presented to the students the grammar structure, for this class the grammar that was taught was the Verb Be using it in questions and answers (Who are you? I am a teacher, Who am I? I am a Doctor, Who are they? They are chefs). Besides Teacher Gladis was a little bit nervous at the beginning of taught the grammar structure, she developed the explanation in a really good way, and the most important thing is that the students understood the grammar structure.

After that, students were commanded to filled the blanks in a chart, they were provided with some labels with the verb be in order to do the activity. Also, they were some posters on the board with scrambled words, students were required to form sentences with the words in the posters.



Lesson Twenty-Three 

Teachers: Jennifer Mejia
                Alejandra Marroquin
                Vanessa Turcios

Skill: Listening

To start to develop the second class, the teachers gave to the students a worksheet in which they had to write the correct name of each profession that was in it.

Moreover, the teachers presented a new profession: Barber. Also, they presented the places were each profession takes place, like Barbershop, Airport, Hospital, School, etc. After that, teacher Jenni presented to the students some questions in order to ask what the profession does?. Also, they gave to the students a worksheet in order to complete the listening exercise about the professions and the places that were mentioned above.

Besides the teacher had some problems with the audio and could not end the lesson, they performance was really good and the activities and material that they brought were amazing.

To conclude, I have to say that I really enjoyed the two classes, besides of the problems that happened, the teachers developed their classes in a really good way and keep the classroom under control.

Lesson Twenty One

Lesson Twenty One

Teachers: Flor Alvarado
                 Tatiana Alvarado
                 Emma Martínez

Skill: Vocabulary

First, the students did and a pop quiz about the previous unit that they studied the past two weeks.

To start the lesson, teachers posted in the board flashcards with professions. The teacher made students repeat each word as many times as possible in order to the students got the correct pronunciation of each word. Then, students worked in couples, each couple were provided with an envelope with two or three words cut in syllables,each couple was required to  form the word and shared it with the class.

After that, teachers made a very interesting activity, they called one by one the students when one of them was called, he/she  was required to throw a dice and say the profession that the dice indicated. Moreover, the labels of each flashcard were removed and the students were required to paste it in the correct place.

To finish the lesson, the students make two teams in front of the board,and when the teacher say the name of one profession, the represent of each team, had to hit the profession with a fly swapper.

Lesson Twenty

Teachers: Luisa Zamora
                Gabriela Paredes

Skill: Reading

To start to develop the class, teachers played with the students a memory game, in which they had to look for the corresponding pair of the school objects in every flashcard. The students really enjoyed the activity and they wanted to participate in it, that is why this activity was so dynamic d funny for them.


After that, teacher Luisa  explained to the students that in the class, they will be related emotions with the school objects (Pencil case = Happy, Pencil = Sad and so on). They have to draw a face that described the emotion in every school object. Moreover, the teachers read a story to the students, the story was about school object and the feelings that they had a little fight. After listened and read the story, students were required to answers some questions in a worksheet that was provided by the teachers.

Besides this time the students were a little hyperactive, I have to say. that  the teachers did they best in order to keep working on the classroom management and made a big effort in order to develop the reading comprehension in students.

Lesson Nineteen

Teachers: Vanessa Turcios
                 Enma Martinez

Skill: Listening

To start the class, students were provided with a worksheet, in which they had to look for different school objects in a word search.

Teachers started to activate previous knowledge of students by showing them flashcards with the vocabulary that they already know. However, teachers show other flashcards with the new vocabulary related to school objects.

After that, a worksheet was given to the students. After the students check the worksheet in order to get familiar with it and the teacher explained what they were going to do, the audio was play and students started to select the correct answer to each question according to what they listened to the audio.

Moreover, students were required to match the label with the name with the corresponding name of the objects that were posted on the board.

Lesson Eighteen

Teachers: Alejandra Marroquin
                Jennifer Mejia

Skill: Grammar

To start the class, a worksheet was given to the students, in which they had to find and circle the 7 school objects that were hidden.

The questions "Is it a..." and "Are they..." with their answers "It is a..." and "They are..." where introduced by using flashcards. Students were provided with as many examples needed in order to they got the idea and differentiation between the questions and answers (singular and plural).

Students were provided with three differents worksheets, in each one, they had to practice the grammar structure that was thought by the teachers.

Lesson Seventeen

Teachers: Gladys Galvez
                 Lourdes Rodriguez
                 Feliz Cruz

Skill: Vocabulary

To start the class, students solved a quiz about the previous unit. After solved the quiz, students played a game in which they had to touch the part of the body that the teacher said: head, shoulders, knees and toes.


After that, the new vocabulary was presented to the students, the new words were: desk, chair, scissors, backpack, board, marker, ruler, eraser, pen and pencil. Moreover, the teacher asked the students "What is this?" and the teacher answer "This is a___" in order to model how to response to the question.  Moreover, students were divided into three groups,and each group had to said the name of the objects that they had.