French Lesson 2

Preparations for the second day went well and I had successfully prepared a games and an idiom quiz for the day. However, the lesson started with a vocabulary test, it was surprising to see that so many students actually managed to score brilliant grades of 90% and up. So we then started the lesson as we did the previous time, Gregory did his vegetable French vocabulary and then we moved onto my idiom quiz, which was meant to teach the kids some good phrases they could potentially use later on, I know because I use them myself. Everyone enjoyed the idioms, especially the literal translation: "Get your strawberry over here". Overall I think it was a better lesson than the previous lesson, it was more organized and flowed better, the pictorial was a great way to end the lesson as the kids were forced to remember the words taught throughout the two lessons in order to gain points. The best drawing was my eggplant, 3D and everything.
The lessons went well and the smaller students seemed to take a lot from the lessons, as we as enjoy the break from the ordinary lessons overall the best part of the lesson was the teamwork between me and Gregory and the evaluation of our strengths and weaknesses in order to teach an even better lesson to the smaller generations. I enjoyed it and hopefully in the future I will have a chance to teach another group again. 

French Lesson

It was not exactly a new experience for me preparing my own lesson, however it was my first time when I taught in a non-native language. Overall the lesson flowed nicely, the Year 7 group learnt new vocabulary and had fun along the way. The lesson was focused mostly across my presentation that I prepared, but Gregory was the person narrating the lesson, he was responsible for the speaking tasks and vocabulary learning and he handled it well. I was the main organizer of the activities and the tasks, such as worksheets, quizzes and crosswords. This lesson allowed me to revisit some of the vocabulary I had once learned and it was useful for me as well. Although the lesson went well, it did not go according to plan, so my aim for next time will be to plan the lesson better and have a greater variety of activities and work for the children. A useful thing to remember for next time would be to make the children to use their exercise books and have a small test to see how they've accomplished their homework. This Tuesday we gave the kids 20 new words and I already have a test for them, I have also looked into making a new presentation and a quiz with useful idioms that they can later reuse. Me and Gregory have had some discussions on how we will conduct our lesson and I believe our teamwork will remain at a great level for next time.

Our French teacher said that it was a great combination of amusing Gregory and a well organized Mark, so I will attempt to maintain the same level of organization and attempt to work on the mistakes that the children picked up on (they wrote reflections on cards after the lesson), thankfully there were more positives than negatives and for next lesson I will attempt to ameliorate my weaknesses and develop some new speaking skills in order to help the children learn.