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End of Class
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 9:53 pm
by dkoby
My ESL Class is going to end in a few weeks. They are housekeepers at a local hotel and I want to have a celebration for them. Any ideas? They are afriaid to go in the front of the room but I think it is necessary that they show their improvement.
Donna
Re: End of Class
Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 9:59 pm
by Lorikeet
dkoby wrote:My ESL Class is going to end in a few weeks. They are housekeepers at a local hotel and I want to have a celebration for them. Any ideas? They are afriaid to go in the front of the room but I think it is necessary that they show their improvement.
Donna
Did I understand correctly that you want to have a celebration in which you will require that they go to the front of the room? Doesn't seem like much of a celebration to me
. Have they been doing role plays or other activities in front of the class during the semester? If so, they might be used to it. If not, it seems like you could do something else--perhaps go around the room and have each one relate how the class has helped them. Maybe if they all talked from their seats they wouldn't be so uncomfortable. In the end, they probably show their improvement at work every day. They will know if they think they have improved. Just my two cents
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Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2004 10:02 pm
by dkoby
Thank you, yes they have to go to the front of the class and show that their reading ability has improved. It really hasn't improved all that much becuase they meet only for an 1 hour once a week and then they are back in the same environment. Thanks for your ideas.
Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2004 9:26 am
by Sally Olsen
I would be interested to know what they were reading. Are they reading forms that are required for their work and labels on bottles and signs around the hotel? Is there English in their environment at all? How about some games instead of reading straight from a book. They could still read but have a kind of scavenger hunt for ideas or read something nice they have written or you have written about the other people in the class or read something that is mixed up like a fractured fairy tale or story they have read already and have to read in order even though you pass it out mixed up. I agree with Lorikeet that reading in front of the class is a different skill than improving their reading. When will they ever have to talk in front of a group? But if they are learning to read to improve their jobs skills, you could be testing them on whether they would mix the bleach with the amonia which is fatal and whether they can read that on the label. Did you have a good time with the class? Maybe you could write a story that they could read about with the jokes and the special times you had with the class and they could read that in turn along with photos. A last class is a rite of passage even if it is only an hour a week and I have always believed it should be something to remember positively.
Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 11:05 pm
by metal56
dkoby wrote:Thank you, yes they have to go to the front of the class and show that their reading ability has improved. It really hasn't improved all that much becuase they meet only for an 1 hour once a week and then they are back in the same environment. Thanks for your ideas.
Do you think they feel comfortable having to go to the front of the class?