Starting Teaching English Training for Undergraduate Students
By: Abdul Hakim Abdullah Saeed
The British Council in collaboration with Taiz university, Faculty of Education ,English department concluded an intensive English workshop for undergraduate students concerning English Classroom Language and Crescent English course for Yemen. The intensive workshop lasted for three days at Taiz university began on the 30th of April and ended up on the 2nd of May.
The workshop was coordinated and organized successfully by three British English Trainers Manal Ariki , Mr. Musa Ghaleb and Hakim Al-Samee. The undergraduate trainees took part in this workshop were impressed due to the ample information and new ideas they obtained while receiving such English workshop. Besides, they expressed their sole need and desire to get some similar workshops in the future if possible . The workshop was cascaded by Trainers; Abdulsalam Al-Hamadi and Abdul Hakim Al-Samee , Amal Al-Taweel and Eman Al-Hagagi , Mahmoud Yahya and Ahmed al-Qadhi and Mohammed Al-Rumaim and Abdul-Hadi Al-Haj and it was supervised and Manal Ariki and Musa Ghaleb .
Dividing into six sessions, the workshop dealt with "Giving instructions, Starting and finishing a lesson, Correcting learners, Developing confidence, Communicative Learner-centered Grammar and Vocabulary Games and Activities for Primary Level".
Prior to concluding the workshop, Miss/ Manal Ariki, British council Coordinator and trainer, on behalf of the British Council delivered a speech in which she expressed her profound gratitude for the Faculty of Education, English department represented by Dr. Mashhoor who always showed a good cooperation and certain support for facilitating such training workshops. Moreover, She expressed her gratitude towards the British Council represented by Mr. Edrees Al-Qadasi, an English Project Manager, who did his utmost so far to conduct and finance such English workshops which actually should have reflected positively on the quality of English language all over Yemen. Again, she also praised the hard work and good performance done by the trainers and the trainers simultaneously. In the end, while having a nice party, Dr. Mashhoor, Manal Al-Ariki and Musa Ghaleb handed over certificates to the trainees.
While doing mingling activity with the trainees.
Manal Al-Ariki addressing all and ending up the training .
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Reports by the trainees:
Report of Red colour group ( group 3)
The class started by the teachers greets the students
Teacher produce themselves to the students also the students also.
Teacher divided the students into groupwork of 6 students
_Once of the teacher started the lessonand tell the students about topic which is "Instructios
Teacher asks students to give some examples about classroom instructions and the students give examples such as "Open the door ""Open your workbook""Be silent....."
Teacher gives student worksheet which has some question about instructions and students from this activity learn that we mostly use instructions when teacher start activity,to manage the class,before exam,giving homework.
Teacher gives students another worksheet which has some pictures
without name ,then students named that pictures and make from this words [door -window-board- Noteboard-floor -table -chair] instructions such as[put the book on the table - look at the blackboard......]also student lrarn how they can make instructions short.
Teacher move to [use English in classroom],teacher starts by aske students about advantages and disadvantages of use English in classromm and students learn that advantages are make English familier to the students . students acquire many new words . to be the teacher as amodel . also students learn that the disadvantages are [make students disappointed - students confuse....]
Then teacher gives students worksheet which has the advantages of use English in classroom ,and students find that advantages from that worksheet are [increase teacher confident,it will help tomaintain agood English speaking atmosphere ,will keep students thinking in English ...]
Teacher gives students another activity on worksheet that the students make asign when they can use English in classroom or use mother tongue or both and students gets that we use English language when greets the students ,taking the register,collecting homework ,Begining the lesson and saying goodbuy ,and use English and mother tongue when setting homework ,and asking what they like about the lesson.
Teacher move to another topic which is "gesture" as introduction teacher asks one student from each group to make gesture and students make it as"liten to me -be quite..."
Then teacher gives students worksheet which has some gestures without name and the students match the name with the picture .then teacher asks students to act the gesture that in the worksheet ,and the whole class get the name of gesture.
Students get the sdvsntsges of use gesture that it use to save the time ,make language easier ,make direction clear and avoid the use of mother tongue.
Teacher gives students worksheet as evaluate of the lesson and the studentss answer the first question that the useful thing is groupwork ,shared knowledge and they want to read more about how they can keep speak English in classroom.
The second ssession
Teacher and students get back to the classroom.
Teacher starts the lesson which is "Starting and Finishing a lesson" teacher gives students small worksheet about the lesson and the students fill the gap of students .
Teacher askes students how teacher can start the lesson and finish it .students give thier opinion that teacher start lesson by greeting ,asks about day and date,warmer, games,songs stories,and finish the lesson by summerize or positive note.
Teacher let some of students act that she come late through his teaching . also other teacher explain to students the steps of doing some things in classroom.
Teacher gives students activity in worksheet that to complete a dailouge between teacher and students in classroom about something happened .also another activity that to asks your partiner about something and she answer such as:
A:What kind of film do you like ?
B:I like comedy films.
Teacher askes two students to explain any lesson in 4 minute,the students explaine it.
Teacher makes another two students to evaluate the teacher /student who explain the lesson.
Finally the lesson finish.
This lesson is effective.
students were active,they engoy the lesson.
All students has chance to speak.
Students understand the lesson.
Students learn from each other.
Teacher can convey the information to the learners.
Teacher explain the lesson correctly.
Written by: Masarat Iqbal Siddick.
Copy by: Mahrosa Nasser Kaid.
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Report by Moad Edriss,
Group 4
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Report by Moad Edriss,
Group 4
First of all,the two trainers managed the class well.The first session,begun by one of the trainers that he let all the students stand up in order to talk about such a real story by using imagination and he said that the story must be logically connect (coherence),that was by asking the students to do it in turns.they hung papers that related to outcomes in the wall like,(past,present and present perfect).The second duty,was about the main different between,grammar and communicative grammar too.The trainer used various games.The trainer,passed the third activity among the students which is a game with challenging by playing with letters in order to accomplish or extract new -words out of the letters.The letters, were(G.P.O.S, – H.Y.T.V,and C.K.L.W).
The trainer,opened course book which is seven grade book and mentioned some out of it based on,explination and grammar as an extra information.The trainer before going to another activityhe asked the students,if they have such games or puzzle in order to,refresh the class by motivating us to not feel bored.He also,used “mistake maze” to test our attention and how can we deal with it in a smart way.Another activity was about,”zero conditional”.All these activities were produced in group work and individually by the teacher’s order.
Unfortunately, the second session was very short to take every single points,this is because of delivery of the certificate that we were about to catch.Anyhow, the second trainer begun also,by various games by using words.The first game was about sounds.The trainer also,used vocabulary games and activities for primary level.We as students also,were asked about true of false in pairs (working to gather)We also,were asked to change one letter to form a new word with pictures.Before the last activity we were asked to match(connect) the places in column 1 with the things in column 2.The last one,was find out the banana,apple,strawberry from the picture down.
To sum up, I’d like to say that the two sessions were very interesting and useful for us.We learnt from the today’s lesson that we should use various games in the classroom for the students in order to get their attention and to make the class more active to interact.
Reporter: Hager Ali Hizam Soltan
Writer: Safa'a Taha Mohammed Al.awadi
Green group
In this day 30,April,2012 ,we had a workshop by the British council. No one can imagine how much we have benefited from it . It was divided into two sections . The first one was about given instructions by T. Ahmed Al.Kadhi whereas the second was about starting and finishing a lesson by T. Mahmood Yahya.
After introducing himself , T. Ahmed has started his explanation about giving instructions . We have identified what makes instructions clear and understandable . We have discussed the lead-in instructions in the classroom . We have discussed also the benefits of using English in the class. We have learned how to write instructions on objects. We have worked worksheets about the problems of giving instructions in English , and how to change the unclear ,long instructions to the simple and short ones .We have learned that using gestures is very important factor that helps the teacher to convey instructions .We have practiced these gestures. The most important thing we learned is the rule of any instruction in anywhere which is 'kiss' 'keep your instruction simple and short'.
The second section was about starting and finishing a lesson by T. Mahmood. We have learned the classroom situation which provide opportunities for practicing English as talking about the weather ,asking about the absent students ,… etc. We have learned the techniques and the language items that make starting and finishing a lesson create an effective classroom environment .We have practiced on worksheets how can we continue the dialogue. We have also learned the two types of language, the functional and social. We have practiced the starting and finishing a lesson and there were some students who performed as observers . Finally we have really got a great benefit about how to start and finish the lesson ,what is more is how to deal with the unexpected situation, and how to create a social context .
Finally , we can say that all the objectives of today's workshop have been achieved exactly as it was planned to it. The trainers were qualified and well-prepared .They were really very wonderful in their explanation . The trainees were motivated , active , and cooperative . Every trainee has participated with the trainer . All students expressed their thank to the British council to give them this golden opportunity in order to be a good teachers and leaders in the future.
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Red group Report :
SECONED SECTION
Developing CONFIDENCE
By: Molok Ahmed Mohammed Saeed
First of all the trainer greeted the class then he asked the question "what the situation will be if the teacher goes to the class without preparation?" then he elicited answers from us. The answers were that:
1-he will be embarrassed.
2-he will not be able to manage the situation.
3-he will not be confident.
Then the trainer told us the title of the session and wrote it on the board "DEvELOPING CONFIDENCE"
In order to give us the outcomes he stuck a long poster on the board consists of four outcomes with spaces and asked us to fill them .Then he elicited answers from us ,he stuck small colored papers consist the right words .
Outcome :
By the end of this session participants should be able to:
1-define and describe the factors which influence professional confidence .
2-discuss classroom contexts where teacher feel unconfident and give opinions.
3-analyse target language to enable more confident lesson planning.
4-link lesson planning techniques to confidence building.
After he made the outcomes clear he asked the question "What does make Adel Imam confident in the theatre ?" then we answered that:
1-he reads a lot about what he is going to do.
2-he practice a lot.
And we discussed the answers with him.
Then he changed the groups and divided us into new groups and named us apple, pineapple, orange ,banana and berry.
In order to achieve the first aim he :
Gave us the worksheet number 2 and asked us to complete the table. After we did what he asked ,he listened to the answers from each group and discussed the answers with us. Then the trainer showed us a paper which had three letters "PPP" written on ,and asked us" what do these letters mean?" We answered and he gave feedback for our answers and wrote them on the board:
1-profissionalism .
2-preparation.
3-practice.
After that he stuck a poster on the board included these three items in details and asked some participants to read then he explained them .
In order to achieve the second aim he :
Gave us the worksheet number 3 and explained the problem it consisted, and asked us to write down one advice to that teacher "Mike"
After we had finished he listened to our answers and gave feedback . Then he asked the whole class to stand up and everyone should move and go to another one and gives him advice using the phrases of giving opinion to others in the worksheet number 3.
After we finished he gave us the worksheet number 4 which include the readers' responses then he gave each group one or two of those responses to elicit the sum up of the responses . The whole group worked together then when the time was up we told him our answers and he asked one of the girls to write our answers on a big white paper then he stuck it on the board .
In order to achieve the third aim :
He gave us the worksheet number 5 and told us that grammar is the most area that students can attack the teacher on. He wrote the sentence "We have been living here for six years ." and asked us what we need to explain in this sentence. Our answers were that:
1-present perfect continuous .
2-the use of " have".
3-the use of " for" and "since".
Then he asked us to look at our worksheets as a model for explaining such sentences, and he advised us to prepare grammar lessons well to anticipate any question from the learners . Then he gave some of us the worksheet number 6 and the others the worksheet number7 which include sentences and tables to help us how to explain them and asked us to work individually and complete the tables by the help of the worksheet number5. While we were working , he moved among the group as a monitor. After we had finished he asked us to share ideas with others.
In order to achieve the fourth aim he:
Gave us the worksheet number8 and asked us to share ideas with group to complete the table. After we had finished, he listened to the answers from each group and discussed them with us. Then he gave us the worksheets number 9 and 10 to do them at homes.
Real practice
He gave us a picture and asked us to prepare a grammar lesson with the aim that "by the end of the lesson students should be able to use there is and there are in a correct way" .Then he chose one participant from each group to be observer and make notes for the performance . The criteria which observer should focus on:
1-confidence.
2-preparation.
3-knowledge.
One of the girls explained the lesson for the whole class and after she had finished, the trainer asked for the comments and discussed them with us.
To sum up
When he had finished his session, he asked all of us to write down in our notebooks that:
1-the most important thing I learn from today's workshop…..
2-I need help with ……
3-I would like to learn about……
4-summarize today's workshop in 20 words .
We did the last one on the class and he listened to all participants who want to say something.
The end
The trainer asked us to stand into two lines to end the session with the game" do it as I say not as I do"
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Report By Sarah Hamoud
The second session had been held on the 30th April at 11:00 in the morning with the attendance of the workshop leader 'Mohammed 'and the trainees, which is about English in the classroom .
Through this topic we worked in groups and discussed about how to start and finish lesson ,ordering the lessen stages and choosing which language which language do we usually use, also how is good to talk through expending the dialogue and using a social language.
Firstly ,we worked in groups and discuss these questions :
1-How do you start and finish your lessons ?
2- What do you say to your class at the beginning of a lesson and at the end ?
1-We answered the first part of the question by warming up the students through making Revision about the previous lesson or guessing game which is related to a new lesson .
The second part of the question by ending in a positive note through making a summary of what we have achieved today ,positive or negative evaluation of something the class has done or doing a task which the class is very likely to succeed in and which will generate feelings of satisfaction.
2- We answered that at the beginning of a lesson we greet the students and at the and we say goodbye.
The workshop leader stuck a chart on the black board about the aims of starting and finishing a lesson and asked the trainees to fill a gap with suitable answers .
*plan the start and end stages of lessons effectively .
*select and use language appropriately at start and end stages of lessons
*identify classroom situations which provide opportunities for practicing English .
*reflect on learning and identify areas for further study .
*create an action plan to experiment for learning to take place.
Secondly ,we ordered the lesson stages.
1-greeting the students.
2-taking the register .
3-collecting the homework.
4-disussing a topic ,such as the weekend .
5-beginning the lesson .
6-asking what they liked about the lesson .
7-doing a game at the end.
8-setting homework
9-telling students to put their books away .
10-saying goodbye .
Thirdly ,we discussed which language in the lesson stages do we usually use.
-mainly English?
-a mixture of the two?
-mainly the students' own language L1 ?
-neither.
Then we discussed how the teacher can expand the dialogue with his students ,so that they get a chance to practice using English .
After that we defined a social language that is informal language using for chatting to the class at the beginning or end of a lesson and work in pairs by choosing one of the topics and chat about it.
Finally ,the workshop leader played a snowing ball game to check the trainees understanding of a lesson .
My impression
Where there is a will there's a way ,and through this impressive Teacher Training course from British Council I determine to dare to try new things ,even if I am only able to make small changes to start with, that is better than nothing .This course gives me a light after I lose my hope to be a good teacher, and I am going to challenge myself and my students to communicate more .
I hope to have another Teacher Training course in near future with new techniques .
At the end ,thank you very much for everything.
Sarah Hamoud
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REPORT OF THE FIRST SESSION
WRITTEN BY /
Saba ALnaqeeb
On 30 April, 2012 a group of men and women come from British Council to Taiz University in a function which is learning teaching English. Their function would be for three days. They started their work on Monday. They arrived Taiz University at seven o'clock. The trainers divided the students into many groups according to their list names. Our group was the yellow one which was trained by Teacher Abdalhadi Alhaj and Teacher Mohammed Alrumim.
The teachers, Abdalhadi Alhaj and Teacher Mohammed Alrumim, divided the sessions day into two parts. The first one was for two hours and half and it was given by Teacher Abdalhadi Alhaj and also the second part was given by Teacher Mohammed Alrumim for two hours and half as well.
In the first lecture, Teacher Abdalhadi Alhaj introduced himself to students, and Teacher Mohammed Alrumim did so. Then they asked students to do the same. Teacher Abdalhadi Alhaj started his lecture by sitting many rules with sharing ideas with students about how the days sessions are going to be. Teacher Abdalhadi Alhaj asked some students to write those rules on a big paper then he posted that paper on the wall. After that he began his lecture which is about "giving instruction" .The lecture was not only theoretical but also practical. It was really interesting .He had learnt us many things ,for example, what are instructions, kinds of instructions ,the purpose of giving instructions , how to make clear and understandable instructions and also when do teachers give instructions . Teacher Abdalhadi Alhaj had done that by dividing the class into groups, each group was consisted of nearly six to seven students. The group members were changed from activity to another. That's why the students were so happy and interesting because they had worked with some students for the first time. Teacher Abdalhadi Alhaj with the help of Teacher Mohammed Alrumim had distributed the papers to the groups according to each activity which they were nearly five in the first lecture. Each activity took about five to ten minutes. They were conveyed between individual ,pair works and group works .Finally, Teacher Abdalhadi Alhaj had ended his session by asking these three questions ,"what do you learn from this lecture ,what do you like and what do you dislike. Students answered these questions frankly. Students were so happy and interesting .They had positive reaction and impression toward the first lecture and toward Teacher Abdalhadi Alhaj himself .The first lecture was ended at ten thirty minutes then the students were going out for breakfast which was given by the British Council Group .After that they came back with the second lecture with Teacher Mohammed Alrumim.
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Blue group
Report on the Second Day of Training
First Session
In the second day of this course, students had been trained by teacher Abdulhadi Alhaj and teacher Mohammed Alrumim. The purpose of this workshop was learning about "Correcting errors" and sharing ideas about "Building confidence".
In the beginning, the teachers introduced themselves and asked the students to do so. Then they explained what the students were going to do during this activity. Teacher Abdulhadi began the first session by asking the students to recite some holly Quran. Then he introduced us to the lesson by sticking some papers on the board and asking about the relation between mistakes and correction. The teacher and the students discuss the outcomes of this session. Teacher Abdulhadi set a rule for grouping the class and encouraged the students to work together. Before every activity, he tried to know our background about the topic, so participants shared ideas with the whole class. Students had done many activities about correcting students' serious and trivial mistakes, types of correction, when, what, and how to correct. For each activity there were some papers distributed among the students to discuss them. The teacher usually finished the activity with the first finishers which is good because it encouraged students to be active. The teacher asked the groups about their comments after discussing the activities and shared ideas with the whole class. Close to the end of this session, teacher Abdulhadi divided the class into two groups and made a competition between them in order to show the students how to correct mistakes in real situations.
At the end of this session both the teacher and the students were satisfied and happy because they felt that they had achieved the aims.
Asma Kamel Sabri
The Blue Group
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Second Session
After the breakfast break, students came back to attend the second session which was about building confidence. The instructor of this session was teacher Mohammed Alrumim.
In the beginning, teacher Abdulhadi asked the students to suggest a refreshing activity. Some students responded by asking puzzling questions. Then, teacher Mohammed Alrumim introduced the topic of building confidence in the classroom to the students by discussing the meaning of confidence and by defining the outcomes of this session. Teacher Mohammed also divided the class into groups and encouraged the students to work together. The teacher after that discussed the relation between confidence and lesson planning. Then, students had practised certain activities about what gives confidence, how to develop confidence, and ways to give and ask about opinions or advice for teachers who are nervous in the classroom. The teacher also distributed some papers to the groups to discuss them and set a limited time for the activity. The students also played an interesting game that was named by the teacher "Letters Game" in which students were asked about the advantages and disadvantages of this session to get feedback. Close to the end of this session, the teacher talked to students about language analysis to practise in groups how to analyse language according to form, pronunciation, use, etc. in order to realize the relation between knowledge, well-preparation, and teachers' confidence.
Teacher Mohammed finished the session with a positive note that he felt happy to train this group and was satisfied with their level that made the students feel happy.
Asma Kamel Sabri
The Blue Group
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