Work in June

At this month, we continued our work and studying .We used our "Student file Book" and other handouts for classes and discussed different topics such as "A party animal", "What makes you feel good?", "Sport activities". We used a video-file to improve students' listening skills and to speak about the information "At the department store".  The main objectives of the classroom work were: 

• revise  grammar -the use of infinitive form (to+ verb)
• describe the cultural similarities and differences between  the parties in USA and Kyrgyzstan
• describe what does it mean to be polite
•  learn some rules about the gerund (verb+ ing) and to use it by their examples
• use correctly verbs followed by-ing
• revise buying clothes, and learn expressions for taking things back to a shop.
• learn how to use " Have to, don’t have to, must, and mustn’t" 
• use a verb+ preposition to express movement. Vocabulary focuses: prepositions of movement and words related to sport.
• plan  Project enhancement activities
• revise the lesson plans and to prepare for the presentation  

Photo presentation and demo lesson presentation were organized in  Osh Regional Library. Students of My group (Nazgul, Malika, Mirgul, Kanykei, Irasagul) presented their work through the published materials with the stories of successes, lesson plans, and objectives of the work for our group. Irasagul and Mirgul presented their lessons as their lessons were chosen from the group as the best ones. Teachers from four groups (Osh and Jalal Abad) of AEPE program could share their teaching experience through the lesson presentation. They could learn about new activities for them and to discuss the ways to improve such lessons. All of them participated actively in this event, as it was very useful for all of them.

The training “American studies” motivated my students to learn more about American history, culture, education, holidays, famous people, music, and food. Training was organized by the Director of ACCELS Ms. Rebecca and Peace Corps volunteers.  Students have learned about different genres of the music and could identify and differentiate different many of them while they listened to them. AEPE students actively worked in groups and prepared American salads: fruit salad, Potato salad, Macaroni salad, and so on… It was a great fun, as everyone could try each of them and enjoy the way of preparation salads together, in groups. Through all of sessions, group work, and presentations students have got new information, worked in one team, found friends- teachers from different groups, and improved their English language skills.

AEPE  student , Ms. Ainagul organized a demo lesson that proposed for the project work with lesson plans. Students have learned the construction of direct and indirect speeches and practiced it by using the text and different handouts. Students (Malika, Irasagul,  Kanykei, and Nazgul) observed the lesson and organized a round table to give a constructive  feedback . Lesson plan is attached in the previous post.

The proposal for the whole Project work is to teach about Kyrgyz culture, education, fashion, food, music, and etc. through the small projects for participants-students from different faculties of Osh city. 

In the Project enhancement activity, students of my group presented different genres of music (information that they have learned at the training) and folk Kyrgyz music as well as dance Kara Jorgo. Students organized a flash- mob where participants could learn about music and dance the Kyrgyz dance. All of the following activities engaged participants into the active discussion and participation. They were happy to be there and to learn a lot!

All of our activities motivate AEPE students to change their style of teaching, to learn more, and to use into their teaching practice new ideas and knowledge from AEPE program.