Task 6: Write your comments on the Vocabulary Teaching Lesson

Today, Rozen and Micchan as well as Keichan and Otokojuku will do a ten minute vocabulary teaching mini-lesson. They will write a relfection in their blogs by Monday, June 4. Please write a comment on their blogs by Wednesday, June 6, 10PM.
I would like Rozen, Micchan, Keichan, and Otokojuku to write the following headings in their post:

1. What we did for our lesson:
2. What our students did during our lesson.
3. The strenghts and weaknesses of our lesson.

Blogging Task 5: Microteaching: Conducting Communicative Activities

Today, Emiko, Karuha, Kiki and Pizza conducted improved versions of the communicative activities I presented two weeks ago.

By Monday, May 28, they will reflect on the communicative activities they conducted in ETM3 on their blogs. I would like them to explain
1) what kind of language they tried to review
2) what the objectives of their activity were
3) what new things they discovered about conducting communicative activities
4) their overall reflection of their experience.

You can read their blogs by clicking on their names. You can see the original activity they tried to improve upon by clicking the "old version" link next to each activity.

Emiko: Using Movement <old version>
Karuha: Information Gap Card A Card B>
Kiki: Interview Activity <old version>
Pizza: Karuta <old version>

Emiko, Karuha, Kiki and Pizza to write a reflection on their blogs by Monday, May 28 and everyone else in ETM 3 will comment on their blogs by Wednesday, May 30.

Blogging Task 3: Communicative Activities

Write how you would improve at least two of the typical communicative activities I presented in class today. You can view the typical communicative activities here. Please include a link to the communicative activities so anyone reading you blog can see the communicative activities that you are talking about. You can begin your blog saying something like this:

Today, I am going to review two of the "typical Japanese junior high school"
communicative activities presented in ETM 3. The activities I am going to review
are _______ and _________. You can view them here.

Please do the above by Wednesday, May 16, 5PM and comment on someone else's blog. Please tell me whose blog you commented on by writing a comment to this post.

Blogging Task 2: Free Writing

The last class everyone including myself seemed to lack energy and be a little worn out. Let's recuperate over Golden Week, think about something else other than English education and come back to ETM 3 on May 10 feeling energized!
Your next blogging task is to write about anything that is important to you. Please write an entry in your blog by May 7.

First Blogging Task: Our stories of studying English in secondary school

Please make a blog entry discussing your experience studying English in Junior High School and Senior High School. Your entry should include the following:

• Your most enjoyable language learning experience at school and an explanation of why
• Your least enjoyable language learning activity at school and an explanation of why
• Your most valuable language learning activity at school and an explanation of why
• Your least valuable language learning activity at school and an explanation of why
• Overall, how would you rate your experience as an English learner?
• The influence you think your language learning experience will have on your teaching

Please do the above by (Monday, April 23, 8PM)Please comment on a classmate's blog by Tuesday, April 24, 11PM and e-mail JH to say whose blog you commented on. Come to class prepared to discuss your own language learning experience and to compare it to the experiences of others.