The 12th week

Teaching reading was the theme of the 12th week. 

There are receptive skills like listening and reading, so the 12th week was devoted to second one... on Wednesday we had a seminar and there were only three questions in the seminar..because of that we had to divide them in two or three parts.  Also I and some of my groupmates had to  create  more questions. my question was about stages in teaching reading.. they are the same but avtivities are different..we've made lessons as usual.

 I wanted to make a lesson and i made it at library at institute but something wrong was with my flash-card because of that i couldn't print it... they were a system of exercises, but i didn't have a chance to show them off..

the 11th week

The eleventh week was about teaching listening.

 We had to plan a lesson for about 15 minutes devoted to teaching listening. I' ve prepared a text for listening. we've studied that there are 3 stages in teaching for example listening. before listening, first listening and second listening... 

The theme of my lesson was sport in Britain. I  prepared words to learn them, I mean students, by heart... But I made some mistakes; I felt really embarassed because of that.

Also all of us had to make  seminar. as usual we divided seminar into several parts and we made handouts. I had a question devoted to principles of teahcing listening, to cut a long story short i can say that the most important prinsiple in teaching listening that if you want to listen to someone speech you don't have to talk. There are different situations when person has to listen but he distubs speaker's speeech and that is wrong, we have to concentrate on the speaker speech and that is it...

the 10th week

This week is # 10 and in 5 or 6 weeks will start the exams, i've understood it and i dont like it..it is too early. oh, 3 of our teachers are going to go abroad, 2 of them are going to visit Spain and onlu one is going to visit the UK, i am very proud of them. despite of that we have lessons as usual, it means that there are some taechers who hold the lessons, honestly, we used to hope that the lessons wouldn't be but we have.
according to methodology and teaching English, this week was about teaching vocabulary to school pupils, it means taht we had as usual lecture,seminar and one lesson devoted to make up lesson plans and hold the lesson. We've learnt that there is a system of exercises, which we have to use when we want to make up lesson with grammar. as i said before there is the system of exerc. i can say that this system is similar to system of exerc.whcih teach grammar. today we had a seminar and we had a discusion about our topic "teaching vocabulary", and we talk about methods of testing vocabulary, there are a lot of, but i like this one: to make up an essay, whcih should be at the end of our work, i mean we can't make them write the essay after the presentation, it won't have a  result, because they don't know some words, and they don't know appropriate vocabulary. also i like the method when teacher show a picture that the pupils have already known and they know what it is, first during the study of this theme we have to show them that pictures and their characteristics which will provide them to do well. 

This week was devoted to teaching grammar, we've learnt lot about how teach gramamr.
i want to begin with that fact that we've known a lot about types of presentation for example grammar, i understood that it is more appropriate to use inductive kinf of presentation, but the first lesson which i' ve prepared i used the second one type, i mean deductive. so we have to make up lesson plans and i wanted to make a lesson...and i can say that i liked it, good job we've done.
so, i had never known that there are such kinds of exercises as recognition, drill, differentiation, imitation and so on...i didn't know about them before and i like this theme and i can say that i understand a lot about this topic.  oh, i forgot to tell that we had 2 lessons devoted to grammar and about 6 of our groupmates had already prepared lessons and it was very interesting, because usually we  have 1 seminart and one lesson connected with teaching with something. for example the first one lesson which we had was devoted to teachng with video..so, this week we had lesson with grammar and next week we are going to have lesson with vocabulary..

the 8th week)

the 8th week was about teaching grammar, we had a lecture, but i want totalk about 2 other activities, the first one was devoted to lesson plans and we had to teach grammar to our groopmates for 15 minutes. i was on of them who taught English grammar and i chose the theme "prepositions of time (at, in. on)". 

i thought that it would be appropriate) and i saw that there were some troubles with this theme, i can say that some of us were confused so the results of exercises were not just excellent, but of course  one of  my groopmates had an excvellent mark) so had I, but not for exercises, i mean my lesson plan) and i was very proud of myself because finally my 3d lesson plan was marked so))

there are some errors that i am making in learning foreign language, i mean that things when i confuse some words especially pronunciation of words which are similar written but pronunciation is different. i know i have to do my best for reaching my goal(fluently speaking foreign language, it doesnt matter is this an English or German). 

the 7th week

ok, the 7th week has already passed, but i want to speak about what we were doing during this week. as usual we had a lecture, and 2 seminars, first i want to talk about classroom activities, some of our groopmates prepared dictations, i mean 3 of us, and we had to write  3 dictations as well, one of them was traditional and other were not traditional. but all of us prepared plans of the lessons with dictation. the another one lesson was devoted to web quest, of course, i know about such kind of teaching tools, but i didnt use it. 

i can say that i really like it, i have rediscovered such kind of learning and teaching  with internet, especially google maps, i really didnt know about travelling around the world using maps and last week i visited Paris, (there were a lot of countries as well, but i dont want to talk about them, i can say i liked to travel using maps).

also, we chose from the list some sites, which we thought would be appropriate for teaching English, and we prepared some presentations and exchanged with them. thats it, i think)

The 6th week was about using Modern equipment in FLTL. but i have to wtite about affective domain (emotions or feelings ) whcih we  studied  on the 1st week. By self -esteem we refer to the evaluation whcih individuals make them be become good. we have to tell them that they are clever and beutiful, they should feel s success. i can say that for me that active domain is very changeable. teacher should work in a high level, but also, i think, students should do their best for becoming better and better.  inhibition is a kind of affective domains, teacher should try it as low as possible and we are as future teachers of english have to make them believe speak and learn English. i think that it isnt appropriate for teachers. the 3d one is risk taking is about taking risk. we have to do it, but most of all learners have to be willing to try hunches about the language and take risk. teacher should develop risk - taking to students.Anxiety is associated with feelings of uneasiness, frustration, self - doubt, apprehension or worry. of course it should be used as low as possible. the  empathy  is the process of putting yourself into someone else s shoes, of reaching beyond the self to understand what another person is feeling. language is one of the primary means of empathizing but nonverbal communication facilitates the process of empathing and must not be overlooked. the last domain is extroversion is extent to which a person has a deep - seated need to receive ego enhancement.  extroverts actually need other people in order to feel "good". introversion on the other hand is the extent to whcih a person derives a sense of wholeness and fulfillment apart from a reflection of this self from other people. for me the most important is self- esteem, i can say that it manifests most of all, i like to take risk that is also very important for me.  i am introvert, but i like to make someone else feel good, i can do it...                       I  can  say that i help myself become better and better probably i wll achive a result. but i am very changeable, and that is right because i am young. may be when i am 50 years old i wont be so changeable, but now i am. Before we started learning Deutsch  i used to learn this language. i thought it was amazing to study new languge from the very beginning but then i lost interest of studing it. i dont know what happened but now i can say that i  like learning Deutsch, may be because of the teacher, i think teacher should be active and they should make we feel success. i ve started being interested in language again and it is a result of teachers work. she make me believe speak and learn language.