1 00:00:01,840 --> 00:00:37,659 good morning elmola today i'm here with our beloved blonde colette hello and ryan the lion 2 00:00:37,659 --> 00:00:45,420 hey meow how are you both doing today great how are you not too bad a little bit sick 3 00:00:45,420 --> 00:00:51,020 oh sorry about my voice we're keeping our distance oh boy six feet rule colette how 4 00:00:51,020 --> 00:00:55,299 are you feeling i know you're sick yesterday i know um a bit better i mean i've kind of lost 5 00:00:55,299 --> 00:01:00,200 my voice you might be able to hear it a little but yeah yeah we definitely yes right watch out 6 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:08,620 but good other than that awesome are you excited to talk about our teaching experiences you guys 7 00:01:08,620 --> 00:01:16,299 of course awesome we love teaching yeah so thanks for tuning in you guys we're hoping to discuss 8 00:01:16,299 --> 00:01:22,019 today a bit of those activities that we rely on maybe when we didn't have time to prepare at home 9 00:01:22,019 --> 00:01:27,099 um and then hopefully we'll get a chance to wrap up with i don't know maybe some general 10 00:01:27,099 --> 00:01:32,439 classroom reflections now that we're coming to the end of our our year here oh my gosh dave 11 00:01:32,439 --> 00:01:39,120 it's terrifying who can i ask to start what's what are one of those activities you guys really 12 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:46,400 rely on maybe when when you're just rolling off that ulsa 193 and and your eyes are still a little 13 00:01:46,400 --> 00:01:52,799 glued shut what are you having the class do what gets them awake at eight in the morning okay well 14 00:01:52,799 --> 00:01:59,219 one thing which I always use which is really good to test vocabulary is a game called hot seat um 15 00:01:59,219 --> 00:02:04,900 so I don't know if you're familiar with hot seat at all no I'm not shaking his head okay um so 16 00:02:04,900 --> 00:02:11,819 basically what it is is on the board I would write a word so I don't know for example school could be 17 00:02:11,819 --> 00:02:17,419 the word there's a student with their back facing the board the rest of the class can see the board 18 00:02:17,419 --> 00:02:22,659 with the word on it then it's the responsibility of the students to explain without saying the word 19 00:02:22,659 --> 00:02:27,319 the word to the students so it's a good way to practice vocabulary because they have to 20 00:02:27,319 --> 00:02:33,599 think of a definition so that's what I my go-to if I don't know what else to do amazing I find 21 00:02:33,599 --> 00:02:40,780 another great one for vocab is just doing like charades or pictionary or whatever making one 22 00:02:40,780 --> 00:02:46,300 student come up secretly showing them the word and then yeah give it I tend to give them the 23 00:02:46,300 --> 00:02:51,620 choice whether they want to do charades or charades I guess you might say I say charades 24 00:02:51,620 --> 00:03:00,560 and they like they like having the choice I find so that one works well as well yeah whoa I used 25 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:06,819 to do Pictionary probably twice a week last year okay um and I don't know your setup it sounds like 26 00:03:06,819 --> 00:03:14,900 you do it as a whole class we did two teams and one of my early teaching experiences horrifying 27 00:03:14,900 --> 00:03:24,000 was having to ban Pictionary for an entire class because they got so mad desks were being thrown 28 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:29,599 the iPad pencil that they used to draw on the board got thrown to the other side of the room 29 00:03:29,599 --> 00:03:37,199 they quit um it was really uh a spectacle you could say because they were super passionate 30 00:03:37,199 --> 00:03:43,039 about that that unit's vocab you know of course about extreme sports yeah nothing to do with the 31 00:03:43,039 --> 00:03:48,740 competitiveness at all i think anything to do with like competitiveness though is gonna be 32 00:03:48,740 --> 00:03:53,719 gonna be a hoot in class to be fair but then like you said it can go the other way and people can go 33 00:03:53,719 --> 00:04:00,539 a bit crazy normally i like to play off that energy to get them awake and engaged um and i 34 00:04:00,539 --> 00:04:05,800 guess some groups just prefer a quiet a quiet morning um yeah respect they don't need the 35 00:04:05,800 --> 00:04:11,639 competition they have enough um one of my go-to activities i actually just did it the 36 00:04:11,639 --> 00:04:17,779 the other day um is song trivia when we're when we're looking for like a quiet maybe less 37 00:04:17,779 --> 00:04:23,980 competitive morning but you still want them in groups kind of collaborating competing i like 38 00:04:23,980 --> 00:04:29,240 make a playlist ahead of time sometimes with their own song tastes i like like to know what 39 00:04:29,240 --> 00:04:36,920 artists they listen to and i find songs where the title is repeated often within the lyrics so if 40 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:42,600 they're listening closely they can guess the title based on what's repeated the most i like it and in 41 00:04:42,600 --> 00:04:47,600 their groups we do rounds of five songs they try to guess the title if they know the artist it's 42 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:54,180 an extra point and we go through like that until we have a winner and it's a good excuse to listen 43 00:04:54,180 --> 00:04:58,839 to music early in the morning I think it brightens everyone's day but they also have to really pay a 44 00:04:58,839 --> 00:05:04,699 lot of attention to pull those I like that out yeah I did something kind of similar at Christmas 45 00:05:04,699 --> 00:05:11,620 um where I did like a Christmas music quiz and it had like the lyrics and then the they had to like 46 00:05:11,620 --> 00:05:18,939 finish the lyrics so I had like a snippet of the song um at the like back end of that so even if 47 00:05:18,939 --> 00:05:22,540 they didn't know the song and weren't familiar like obviously everyone knows all I want for 48 00:05:22,540 --> 00:05:29,060 Christmas is you so they kind of need the lyrics anyway but um when it was like very like British 49 00:05:29,060 --> 00:05:35,220 Christmas songs for example which they didn't know um it they had to like listen to the lyrics and 50 00:05:35,220 --> 00:05:40,680 um tell me what they were and that was really fun but I suppose you could kind of like integrate 51 00:05:40,680 --> 00:05:47,800 that into like halloween thanksgiving other thanksgiving songs no no okay my bad uh saint 52 00:05:47,800 --> 00:05:54,920 patrick's day though like valentine's what songs are there for saint patrick's day yeah any irish 53 00:05:54,920 --> 00:06:01,480 song oh any irish song and so yeah valentine's day any love song any love song ah you see you see 54 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:06,779 summer any summer song got it so yeah finishing the lyrics that was quite good because like you 55 00:06:06,779 --> 00:06:13,100 say I think music is quite a powerful tool when it comes to language learning off the back of that 56 00:06:13,100 --> 00:06:19,600 I have a couple of times asked them for songs like Spanish Christmas songs or whatever which 57 00:06:19,600 --> 00:06:25,680 I also think is quite nice because I don't know them at all so sometimes and they have to spell 58 00:06:25,680 --> 00:06:30,259 the songs if they want me to search them on YouTube if they don't know them then they have 59 00:06:30,259 --> 00:06:35,300 to spell it so that's also good spelling practice and I feel like yeah they get excited when they 60 00:06:35,300 --> 00:06:39,620 can be teaching you something but if you have them do it in english they don't even know that 61 00:06:39,620 --> 00:06:45,339 yes them practicing i think that's them teaching we like to fool the little trick 62 00:06:45,339 --> 00:06:48,459 sorry kids 63 00:07:06,670 --> 00:07:21,220 well playing off this idea of storytelling or like completing the the song or whatever it is 64 00:07:21,220 --> 00:07:27,060 i started this idea with like starting maybe a short film like a three minute short film or a 65 00:07:27,060 --> 00:07:33,399 video or like a common meme video and just cutting it halfway through and then having to complete the 66 00:07:33,399 --> 00:07:38,480 story at first it was like to try to guess but then i'm like wait it's more fun when they can 67 00:07:38,480 --> 00:07:46,019 get creative and just invent it and from that idea was born my favorite activity I love that 68 00:07:46,019 --> 00:07:51,399 I get to do it with every group at least once a year um there have you guys seen Rick and Morty 69 00:07:51,399 --> 00:08:00,180 no sorry to say well there's an episode of Rick and Morty where they're watching like intergalactic 70 00:08:00,180 --> 00:08:06,600 cable as in there's infinite uh channels and so as you're scrolling through there's infinite 71 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:11,420 possibilities of what could come on things that seem totally random except there's like one aspect 72 00:08:11,420 --> 00:08:16,819 of that reality that makes things weird like people have people walk on their hands or something 73 00:08:16,819 --> 00:08:23,879 ridiculous and there's one that's like okay this is a commercial on international or intergalactic 74 00:08:23,879 --> 00:08:31,019 cable a trailer for a new movie coming out and it is the most ridiculous uh improvisational 75 00:08:31,019 --> 00:08:37,879 uh movie trailer and when she's like and then this happens but not before this happens but then 76 00:08:37,879 --> 00:08:44,259 17 monsters show up and what do you do then because the moon is crashing into the earth 77 00:08:44,259 --> 00:08:53,000 and zombies are there and it's two minutes of this nonsensical um improv movie trailer chaos 78 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:59,200 and i'm like was that funny you guys they're like haha i'm like well you need to make one now 79 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:05,519 and i tell them that they all have to compete to make the most creative nonsense i like trailer 80 00:09:05,519 --> 00:09:13,100 they can't and they have to include a title in this trailer i wish i could show it to you yeah 81 00:09:13,100 --> 00:09:20,080 i want to see later um yeah and the trailer the title is um because it's so improvised it's like 82 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:27,659 18 words of like two brothers on a mission going to the moon but with a mexican alien invasion 83 00:09:27,659 --> 00:09:34,360 armada of tomatoes but then grandma's arrived the movie and like something totally ridiculous that 84 00:09:34,360 --> 00:09:39,159 just describes the whole plot um and i make them do that and make like a poster for it too 85 00:09:39,159 --> 00:09:43,919 and it ends up being like one of my most fun classes even though all you have to do is put 86 00:09:43,919 --> 00:09:49,179 a youtube video on for two minutes and call it a day they actually make the videos and stuff in 87 00:09:49,179 --> 00:09:53,779 class as well they don't make the video they they just have to narrate it as if they were 88 00:09:53,779 --> 00:10:01,840 got you that's so fun and i've done it with fourth so down to first so oh wow everyone 89 00:10:01,840 --> 00:10:08,120 could be fun they all like it like i've never had a group that's like 90 00:10:08,120 --> 00:10:13,799 disanimated by it that's okay that's quiet and chill they always come up with something 91 00:10:13,799 --> 00:10:18,299 at least one group in every class comes up with something that makes me laugh out loud 92 00:10:18,299 --> 00:10:24,440 lol i think anything that they can be like creative and silly with even if it's like 93 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:29,500 absolute nonsense what they're coming up with as long as you're speaking english i don't care 94 00:10:29,500 --> 00:10:36,000 i don't mind yeah as long as that grammar is okay they came up with with fart tanks 95 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:41,899 the last time i did this activity it was like a war where some monster invaded or some alien 96 00:10:41,899 --> 00:10:47,879 invaded and they had to fight them off with like take tanks that shot farts okay and they're like 97 00:10:47,879 --> 00:10:55,639 14 I'm like you know what could come in handy soon good vocab perfect no I did I remember doing 98 00:10:55,639 --> 00:11:00,539 one when they were learning my second SO students were doing about like modal verbs or something so 99 00:11:00,539 --> 00:11:10,460 like would could must should etc um and I made this like scenario where like something had gone 100 00:11:10,460 --> 00:11:14,679 missing like the school trophy or something I don't even know if they have a school trophy here 101 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:20,919 but anyway made it up and um there was like a set of clues of things that had happened and they had 102 00:11:20,919 --> 00:11:26,039 to like come up with scenarios about what could have happened and then some of the kids like 103 00:11:26,039 --> 00:11:30,940 thinking very practically like oh it could have been this person at the school like the caretaker 104 00:11:30,940 --> 00:11:38,379 because he has access to all the keys like etc other kids were like aliens came and they broke 105 00:11:38,379 --> 00:11:43,799 into the school and they could have done this or they should have done this and I was like well 106 00:11:43,799 --> 00:11:49,340 as long as you're using a modal verb said this is great for me guys that's awesome i just did one 107 00:11:49,340 --> 00:11:57,340 with um marina where we put up we said that marina one of the teachers here after work goes home to 108 00:11:57,340 --> 00:12:04,639 the city center and runs like a phone shop like selling like phone cases and whatever right because 109 00:12:04,639 --> 00:12:12,519 i had found a video i just looked up like criminal robber failures and you thought marina no and it 110 00:12:12,519 --> 00:12:17,139 was a video of this guy breaking into like a phone shop to try to rob it but he gets stuck 111 00:12:17,139 --> 00:12:22,200 and it's like a minute and a half of him trying to get back out but he's stuck 112 00:12:22,200 --> 00:12:30,120 and so i announced the class i'm like guys marina has been robbed and we know it was one of you 113 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:34,679 we have it on video and i show the video i'm like clearly it's someone from this class 114 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:39,240 and i like pulled out like some stupid piece of paper from class i'm like because they dropped 115 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:45,100 this and i know only you guys had that and so then it's a debate i'm like someone here is guilty 116 00:12:45,100 --> 00:12:51,860 all of you are suspects and i make them use their past tense to explain to create their alibis for 117 00:12:51,860 --> 00:12:57,299 we were with and they can totally invent it but other people are allowed to ask questions and at 118 00:12:57,299 --> 00:13:02,440 the end we give a verdict of who we thought it was kind of like murder mystery i love that totally 119 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:09,379 improvised they got so into it like they were fighting in like the best way they were mad class 120 00:13:09,379 --> 00:13:16,840 ended they stayed late to keep talking about it oh stop um and all i had to do was look up a video of 121 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:23,120 failed robberies perfect do you see the trend with mine it's like a quick youtube video 122 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:28,279 and then the creativity just comes in any any closing thoughts um i don't want to draw 123 00:13:28,279 --> 00:13:33,419 our chat out too long but any words of advice we were talking about quizzes before 124 00:13:33,419 --> 00:13:43,179 oh you use cahoots i do use cahoots sometimes i make my own but honestly there are millions 125 00:13:43,179 --> 00:13:48,700 out there for anything you could possibly want and i've asked some of my classes for feedback 126 00:13:48,700 --> 00:13:53,460 before of like what classes they've liked the most and they all say more cahoots teacher 127 00:13:53,460 --> 00:14:01,200 so always go down a treat so if you're a bit stuck for what to do that's a that's a good one 128 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:07,360 and how do you organize the kahoot in like a setting when you can't use phones or do you go 129 00:14:07,360 --> 00:14:13,360 for the computers do you click what do you do it depends on the class to be honest often i'll get 130 00:14:13,360 --> 00:14:20,240 different students to come up and be the clicker and they'll have access to often it's my phone or 131 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:26,080 my laptop or something like they're the only person and everybody else has to like shout and 132 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:34,580 but you know in a respectful way so that they can hear it and click um or sometimes I like take off 133 00:14:34,580 --> 00:14:39,960 the timer and they do it more like a quiz so they write down their answers and then I don't show 134 00:14:39,960 --> 00:14:45,360 them until the end so it depends on the class but there are a few different ways you can do it 135 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:51,820 options yeah nice awesome any closing thoughts from you colette i don't think so i mean i use 136 00:14:51,820 --> 00:14:58,299 kahoot as well but i kind of did it you know on um halloween when we did like group teams and we 137 00:14:58,299 --> 00:15:04,840 were like nominate one person fastest hand like to go up you get to answer the question that's what 138 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:09,399 i do with my team so they're in like teams of four and i'm like you'll have to do it but it 139 00:15:09,399 --> 00:15:13,759 depends on the size of the class when it's a big class it's really difficult that can get tricky 140 00:15:13,759 --> 00:15:19,039 yeah absolutely wow and maybe that's what our next episode will be is perhaps something like 141 00:15:19,039 --> 00:15:23,600 classroom management any skills we've gotten as untrained professionals 142 00:15:23,600 --> 00:15:33,259 awesome well nice chatting with you guys stay well see you on the next episode and um 143 00:15:33,259 --> 00:15:35,360 thanks for listening thank you