Reflection on the big teaching on 12/25

 

        On Christmas day was our second class of big teaching. The main goals of the big teaching on this class were reviewing and games that helped the learners review. My group and the other two groups all prepared some activities that were a little bit different from ones in the previous week.

        The Korean group first guided us to play an easy game which was called carrot squat. In the game, each person represented one kind of food taught last week, and one person had to call another person’s food name in the game. The one who could not call the name right would be eliminated. The game would not come to an end until all members of one group were all eliminated. Carrot squat was a fast and easy game for the learners to review the vocabulary taught in previous class. It also added fun in this class. After this in-class game, we had another game that we needed to run up and down the Ji-tao building. There was one member of Korean group on each floor, and they had different kinds of food to sell. We needed to ask them if they sold the food we need or not in Korean. Also, we could not buy two kinds of food from a person in the same time. We ran from one floor to another and were almost out of breath. The second game was really fun and useful for us to practice the sentences and the food they had taught on 12/18. Among all the activities in the two weeks, I liked this game the most.

        The Malay group guided us to review the pronunciation and the self-introduction first. In the previous week I did not remember the vocabulary and the sentences well, but this week I remembered most of them and I could tell the difference between those words that looked similar. We played a word-passing game, which required one group to speak the self-introduction based on the contents taught last week, and then tell the other group the full sentences. The goal of this game was to pass all the sentences in Malay to the last person of the other group, and the last person needed to tell everyone the correct sentences. In this game, both our group and the Korean group came up with long and weird names that made each other confused and said the wrong name. This game was not only fun but also made both the group members practice the sentences and vocabulary. None of the group members were idle in the game.

        The games did help me review the contents taught in the previous week. Games were the fastest way to draw students’ attention in the class. By playing the exciting game, learning was no longer boring and rigid. After the two classes, I had already memorized the vocabulary and the sentences taught by the two groups. Before the class, I was wondering whether I could remember the contents like other friends who had took this course in the previous year did. But in the end, the experience proved that I did understand and remember the contents, and had more thoughts about language teaching and learning.

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