In class today I did a mingling exercise where students filled in a weekly schedule of events that they wanted to invite someone to. Students invited and then either accepted or rejected the invitation. If they were rejected they were expected to propose an alternative, if accepted then negotiate a time and place with each other. I’ve done this lesson many times before and build up the language before starting.

This time however for the review section instead of just making notes of common errors, I walked around the classroom with my camera and recorded conversations. I then moved the video from my camera to the computer and we watched it as a class where students were encouraged to notice what they did correct and find mistakes if possible.

This went over really well in all three classes that I did it with. I will be doing this again in the future with this and other similar exercises.

Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Tuesday Apr 29, 2008 at 05:07 PM
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