2011/06/13
学生たちの英語力が上達してきました
ピーター ヴァンデェヴィアー
HIUC講師
カナダ出身
Hello. Today， I will talk a little about my level 3 class. Each day， they take three classes. They have listening and speaking in the morning with Lance. After lunch， the have integrated skills with Josh， and they finish the day with reading and writing with me.
For the last two weeks at the beginning of Lance’s class， the students have been doing improvisation. This means that they come to the front of the class and have to make a story without preparing. One person walks into the room and starts the situation. The other person has to react and carry on the conversation. Basically， two or three students have to do a short role-play without any preparation. This is to get the students thinking and reacting quickly in English. On Thursday and Friday， the class usually does some work on note-taking. They listen to part of a lecture and take notes on what they here. They need to organize their notes in a clear way that is easy to understand. This is a very important skill. In university， students have to take a lot notes. If you cannot take clear notes， university can be very difficult.
For the last couple of weeks， they have been studying about fraud in Josh’s class. As part of the unit， they had to give presentations. In the presentation， they had to talk about one kind of fraud. They explained how it works and how to avoid being a victim of it. They did the presentations in pairs. Each pair had a power point slide show to go with their presentation. They spoke for ten minutes. Then they answered questions from their classmates. A few days ago， they started the next unit. This unit is about sports and obsession. As part of the class， they worked on a question and answer sheet about the Olympics. The handout had a variety of questions including some critical thinking questions. Critical thinking questions are questions that you can debate with a person. After students discussed the worksheet in pairs， they talked about one question as a whole class. They talked about the good points and bad points of having the Olympics in their city. Today， as a follow up activity， they will write an in class paragraph. They will have 20 to 30 minutes to write about “should Osaka hold the Olympics”.
In the reading and writing class we are continuing to work on reading skills. We have looked at previewing， scanning， skimming and guessing the meaning of vocabulary from context. We have also done some speed reading drills. This is to help the students read more quickly. We will soon finish working on process paragraphs and move onto compare and contrast paragraphs.
As you can see， they are busy every day， but they are learning many things and their English is continuing to improve in all areas. I hope they keep up the good work.
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