Hi people.........................Today I have some things to say about the activities that my classmates presented. Well today I learned a lot, and I realized that the class depends especially of the teacher because he-she is the person who can change the environment of the classroom.I think that students can be bored,but the teacher with his-her abilities can change it.

Mmmm,but about the activities I have to comment that I liked Kike´s pictures, and I really believe that one of the best ways to teach in first levels and also with teenagers, it is through pictures because it is easier to learn what the teacher is saying. I mean, when you have pictures you not only imagine something,but also see it, and this means a double learning.
I think the activities that contain different materials are more effective that those that do not use any material, especially to develop speaking skills.

Also, I enjoyed the recorder because it is very strange to listen my voice when it had been recorded. I felt nervous because I am not used to doing that; it was funny because we made some mistakes and this helped us to correct them, and this is the most important in this activity. I think that if all teachers could use this tool, it would be nice and they could get excellent results in order to teach their students.
The problem here in El Salvador is that we do not have enough resources, and teachers have to invent how to teach and make a class different.

Ohhh about Luis´ activity, I have to say that it was the first time I do that, and I felt rare because I do not have any experience in a job and that made me feel nervous as I was asking for one.
I think that these kind of activities can be useful especially with teens because they can learn about real situations and problems that they are going to face in the society.


In the last activity that was presented by Xavier, I liked the game because this helped us to feel motivated in the class, and I think this kind of games help students to work hard because they like to feel that they are winners..
I think that if we could mix all these activities and apply them in a correct way, our classes would be nice and students could learn a lot.

Mmmm about

Uppppppsssssssssss................... We have the exam tomorrow.... We have to study a lot because our teacher is very strict UPSSS.....GOD BLESS US.

SECOND DAY OF ACTIVITIES....................

The whole method: Oh! the first activity has something good and that is that students can develop reading skills, which is nice for students especially in our level, but the most importan is that we learn how to develop our analysis and to make questions.

I liked the second activity because I like to write stories with the use of pictures.I think all of them were nice.This can help students to use their imagination and to turn the class more interesting.

TPR.Well...I liked to move my finguers a lot and also to move my body, but what really liked me was the part which we had to make gestures and mimics. It was great and I liked to see my classmates´ faces (especially my teacher).With this activity you can learn how to represent a word, a verb or another thing, and this can help the student to understand another language.

The Natural A. The activities here are great and I think this can help students to learn different things like colors and parts of the body, especially with begginers. I remember that I learned a lot by pictures because sometimes I did not understand something, but through pictures I understood the meaning of every thing. To use this method you have to have a lot of creativity and time to prepare the material for your classes.

This method makes students to feel comfortable.

All the activities were nice... CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN.

GOD BLESS US.

ACTIVITIES..

Hello people! I want to tell you that the last class was so nice for me.I really enjoyed it, and I desire all my classes in that way, but I know that this is almost impossible..
I have to CONGRATULATE ALL MY CLASSMATES, YOU DID IT GREAT.

About Suggestopedia I have to say that I liked the way how we used the instruments. I liked to play with those beautiful toys. I think that with instruments you can learn a lot because children love to make noise ,and at the same time they are lerning.
The only thing is that you have to have all those instruments for your students ,and some schools do not buy them for your classes, so you have to buy them with your own money.
But this is a nice method and it has nice activities.

The Direct method is good ,too. I liked the part when each student has to participate and give his-her opinion.
The teacher has to control all and check things like pronunciation.
To make groups is very useful because students share their ideas and they learn with others, so I liked that activity because we participated a lot.

The Silent Way. I think that the activities of this method are useful if you can apply them. I like that students are free to build their own sentences, and the teacher let them to work alone.I like this because I consider that the teacher has not to be next to the students all the time, only if the student do not understand.
With these activities we can learn a lot about writing and grammar, but the thing is that the teacher has to have a lot of imagination in order to create a great class, if not students are going to feel bored because the teacher does not talk so much.
But Alex taught us a lot of things..nice.

The Audio Lingual Method. Well, I consider that you have to enjoy what you do and what you say, and it does not matter the situation or the place, so I enjoyed this method and the activities because I had to explain them. I liked these activities a lot,and the most importan is that they are useful and you can get good result from using these kind of techniques.
I liked that my classmates talked a lot and they tried to understand what I was saying.But the nicer thing for me was the tongue twister.I liked to listen my classmates and my teacher to repeat the paraghrap and how they got confused...I enjoyed it a lot, and I think that we learned some things, too. THANKS GOD.

The last methods...

I really learned a lot about each method, and these 3 last methods are very useful ,too.

First: CBI.
I consider that this method has something great and fundamental for students; it is, that students learn about topics and things that are really important for them. For example with children the teacher can teach about cartoons, games and others, and this is going to motivate students to continue learning and reading information.
In this case the teacher has a big responsability because he-she has to be very intelligent and look for the way how to transmit a message through these kind of topics.

Task Based Instruction.
I like to make a lot of researchs , and in this method you do many researchs with students. This is very useful because when you are active in the process of learning, you have more opportunities to learn. But if you are all the time waiting for the teacher help, you are not going to develop your skills.
Thje bad thing here is that if you want to apply this method with begginers, it is going to be very hard because children loose their attention easily, and this can cause a headache for teachers

The last method( Community Language Learning) has good things too.
I consider that you can learn a lot from others; also, if you share your ideas with your classmates, you can develop communication skills and the importance of respecting other points of view.
In this method you share a lot of with your partners;with this, you can learn a lot of vocabulary, more information about a topic etc. Also, the use of recording is very nice because you can record your mistakes in order to check them later and overcome your mistakes.
Also, I like the relation between the teacher and the student. I consider this point very important because teachers must take care of students feelings, students needs and all those things that affect their learning. Actually some teachers do it, but some others do not think why a student do not pay attention in a class,or what happen in his-her house (if their parents have problems etc). If we know this, we can help our students and our job is going to be easier.

Hi! I am writing again......
Well, about THE ORAL APPROACH: I consider that this method is almost the same with the audio-lingual method. As you remember ,I explained that method, but when I listened "the oral approach..." I started to ask a lot of question of the use of that method, and there are a lot of things that are difficult. For example, if you do not let your students to make mistakes, how are they going to learn if we learn from our mistakes?.. I think that this point is a disadvantage for students because I can not imagine a teacher trying to correct me every minute in my life mmm no because I would feel afraid of talk or participate in class.
I prefer the combination of methods and that is why I consider the NATURAL METHOD very useful.
Something that called my attention was that in this method students and teachers are friends, and this is something that would be nice at schools especially in El Salvador because here in our country most of teachers are very bad with their students...(in UNICAES) jiji.
What I liked of the Natural Method is that the most important for all the system are students and all things are around them. This is nice because teachers pay a lot of attention to students´ needs, and to do this teachers combine different methods in order to make education very effective. But no all is good in this method. I do not like that students can decide when they want to learn or talk; this is bad because in this way I think that nobody is going to talk in a class.Sometimes we have to force students to work in order to make them learn.
Also, I am no so sure but I think that there are not evaluations in this method, and this do not help students.

Ok I am waiting more methods...Nice weekend!!