What will you like to know about your future students?

I would like to know about the things that motivate them to do classes more interesting, so that they can learn in an easily way.
Also, I would like to know about the interest that they have in learning a new language.
And one of the most important thing for me is to know about the support that they families give to them

Corrections

This city has so many places to visit, one of the most beautiful for me was the Aquarium, I've always enjoyed documentaries about marine's life and there I could see the animals very close.

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This city has so many places to visit. One of the most beautiful for me was the Aquarium. I've always enjoyed documentaries about marine life, and there I could see the animals very close.
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My idea for this actitivity is not to write a big paragraph, you have to put some photos to compare your life in your country with photos about your life in the new country, the idea is to write some staments above the photographs comparing the different lifestyles. With this activity students can practice comparison and also they can do something more interesting than writing a big report.
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My idea for this activity is not to write a big paragraph. You have to put some photos to compare your life in your country, and photos about your like in the new country. The idea is to write some staments above the pictures comparing the different lifestyles.

With this activity, students can practice comparison, and also they can do something more interesting that write a big a paragraph.

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All students are able to do whatever they want, so as teachers is our responsability to make that students can show their potential, a quote that I took from the book says: "The most important lesson we can learn as teachers is that our students have unlimited potential and that we must show our faith in them to reach their potential" this quote sumarize my thoughts and clearly show that is all in our hands.

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All students are able to do whatever they want; so as teachers is our responsability to make that students can show their potential. A quote that I took from the book says: "The most important lesson we can learn as teachers is that our students have unlimited potential and that we must show our faith in them to reach their potential", this quote sumarize my thoughts and clearly show that is all in our hands.

Gina's Activity

Hi Gina,
I found a page for you to learn Spanish. I hope you like it.
On this page you can learn about greetings first, and then you can learn more difficult things.

http://www.mansionspanish.com/cursobasico/ecurso01_1.htm

Three Principles

Teaching through content

This is an important characteristic of teaching, I think one of most important, children need to know why they are studying something and also they want to feel that the things that they are learning are useful in their lifes. For that reason, as teachers we have to be able to teach through topics that are common for the students or topics that they can see everywhere, for example we cannot do an English class to a child from Peru about the games that children play in Australia, it would be better for them if we create a class with their own games and with their own experiences.

Learning take place in social interaction
This aspect is also very important to learn a second language, you cannot learn a language by just take classes you also need to receive feedback that can be provided by other people and not only the teacher, but also the rest of the students, the creation of group work in classes is an useful technique because children take risks and try to talk in more difficult structures, when they talk something to the teacher they try to be correct so they use only the things that they know very well. Also one important aspect is that students need to be in contact with native speakers because teachers don't have the same pronunciation of the native speakers. Definitely a language has to be practice with more people to produce input and to receive output.

Faith in the learners expands student potential
High Expectations, an important concept that every teacher has to develop in order to increase the self confidence in the students. All students are able to do whatever they want, so as teachers is our responsability to make that students can show their potential, a quote that I took from the book says: "The most important lesson we can learnas teachers is that our students have unlimited potential and that we must show our faith in them to reach their potential" this quote sumarize my thoughts and clearly show that is all in aur hands.

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We have to be able to manage these three principles, we have to include them in our classes and in our teaching styles, because if we think of the importance of them we can notice that our students could learn in an easy way and we can make classes more interesting for them by using teaching through content, make them to work in groups and of course having faith on the children could help them to believe in themselves and they will do the best that they can.
All the things that we are learning here are new tools to put in practice in our country, is our responsability now to know how to obtain the most benefit of them and to find the best way to apply them with our students.

"Learning take place in social interaction"

1. “Learning English is all about deciding to join the English-speaking club.” Explain what this mean and defend the statement.
(pages 148 - 149)

It is very helpful to be part of one of this group because interaction is the most important thing to improve fluency and to gain accuracy, but not only you can learn English by doing this, you also can learn by practicing on your own in terms of writing and speaking, in order to develop the different skills. One of the things that you should consider is the level that students have in terms of English because having big gaps between the learners could produce differences in the learning process. We consider that as human being we need to get across what we think and also to share our thoughts.

Teaching language through content

The activity that I chose to change is from the book "Writing Academic English" this activity propones a list of things that you feel when you are in other country, you have to write a paragraph about cultural shock.

The students will practice not only writing as in the book says, but also they will practice speaking by sharing their own expiriences in front of the class
Thi activity is designed for students of high school in last grade.

My idea for this actitivity is not to write a big paragraph, you have to put some photos to compare your life in your country with photos about your life in the new country, the idea is to write some staments above the photographs comparing the different lifestyles. With this activity students can practice comparison and also they can do something more interesting than writing a big report.
For example, you can show a photo of your room in your country and the new room with the text that shows which is the best and saying if you miss it. Students also can share their opinions and do a presentation about their own countries.