Saturday, November 8, 2008

Past and present routines.

Today's lesson at Smith's School of English was with two low level students. We started out with their one points as usual. Since they had different one points we enjoyed practicing each one with each student. After that we moved into a review of an Item they had practiced previously: Past 1.

In order to practice the Item Past 1 we jumped right to the cool of section. I suggested the students ask each other about what they had done the previous day. Each student took three turns asking and answering about something they did. We had some chances for correction which we worked out together on the board. Good practice! Next we moved into the main part of today's lesson: the routine.


I gave them a chance to perform the first step of routine 1 (sentences 1-7) since they had seen it before. They were indeed due for a review of this material but as they practiced it i could see it was coming back to them. Once they were in the right mode we went on to practice the next set of sentences 8-14. After that it was just perfect timing to end the lesson with a one point. Today we did "I'm (not) familiar with this area. Useful!

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