Enjoying the past.

Today’s loop lesson revolved around basic Smith’s School of English routines and a review of the past 4 item which we covered together the previous week.

We started out by reviewing the previous week’s one point: Even if… The students had prepared their example sentences before coming into class. I was happy to see this level of commitment from the students. Each student told me their example sentences and I wrote them on the board in turn. I then highlighted or blanked out any mistaken words. Then the students fixed their errors together so we ended up with 3 nice example sentences using the one point “Even if…”

Next we began to practice the questions from the Smith’s School of English basic routines. They were familiar with the questions from practicing them previously but I wrote them up of the board to make sure the target material was clear to everyone. Then we practiced changing the questions from their standard present tense for to past tense. We then used the questions to ask each other various things about our recent holiday weekend including Culture Day. I let the students ask me a few questions first to get the ball rolling and then transitioned into letting them ask each other using the board to correct mistakes along the way. Good practice with lots of talking time.

We finished up the lesson with a low impact review of the Item lesson Past 4. Using the supplementary material students asked and answered questions with me listening and supporting when necessary. After that we wrapped up with a new one point. What a nice lesson!