3rd Activities Presentations

Enrique's Activities:

Prepositions are a widely known problematic topic, which made it a really swell choice. I thouht it was fun to identify the position of the objects in the pictures we were given. I liked the fact that he brought two different sheets of image activities. We had to concentrate on each object's location and recall the prepositions that were better for those cases, it was an entertaining mental excercise. Even kids usually enjoy this kind of activity.

The participation of everyone was required, and that is a relevant point to take into account.

My Presentation:

First of all, I want to say thanks to  eveyone for their help. It was slightly weird to face the group supposedly acting as a teacher. I did not particularly liked the experience but I did not hated it either. I guess it was just a neutral feeling there. 

Most people decided to be recorded in audio, which I perfectly understand. We are not used to that kind of activity in our country. However I do think that the initial reluctance to participate in something like a recorded conversation can be overcome. It could also work better in lower levels or with kids, since they like to have fun and are more eager to talk. They don't feel so ashamed for they don't care much about what everybody else thinks. Children may see a recording activity as just a game!

Luis' Activities:

The "joke" job application was hilarious. It instantly reminded me of a friend of mine who did a similar thing, but online. He said he had invented fire and spoke over 15 languages as a native with more than 50 years of experience in medicine, law, gymnastics, etc. 

Back on topic, I hadn't really thought about job applications before. It is true that those aren't very common in our country for whatever reason...

It was a pleasant experience to fill out the form. I did not know that so many details have to be written down. He also tried to make people participate and that was alright.

Xavier's Activities:

Even though it was raining, he kept on developing his activities and set a great example as a teacher. The activities were fun and simple. It was a bit dynamic because we needed to stand up and be fast. All the people wrote on the board, and that is always positive.

He talked about crime, being that a topic we can unfortunately all relate to in El Salvador. So it was a general interest content that he pulled off just fine.