Pazylova Samara

Pazylova Samara
Reflection Unit 1.
It was very interesting to begin this project, I mean study. For the first time I was like "a hedgehog in the frog". I couldn't understand the process, but the lessons were very interesting. I could learn some of new ways of teaching. We have learned some new information about Picasso, his pictures, his way of painting. Than I want to speak about Quiz. I thought looking at the paper, it would be very easy, but when I began to make the tasks, I lost myself. I tried to do all correctly, but I made a lot of mistakes. At the next quiz I will try to do my best thanks for the lessons. I hope to take and to use new methods at my lessons. I can say that I found some new things in teaching English language.

Reflection for Unit 2
 The second Unit Was very interesting for me. I have learned a lot about linking words and prepositions. There was a lot of interesting information.The trainer used a lot of unusual games at the lessons. I used those ideas at my own lessons.

Reflection Unit 3
You are teaching us not only new methods, in this Unit we had a talk about pessimists and  optimists. Looking at You I can say that you are the most optimist person. You show us to be optimists in any way, not to loose ourselves. Our tasks on these theme was very unusual. And one thing, which I want to tell you, is our enhancement activities. We had 2 activities. The 1st was for teachers and the second is for pupils. Both of them were very interesting, especially to work with pupils. They were very happy, funny, and light was in their eyes. After our competition, pupils were interested more deeply. I liked our teamwork, project, semonars very much. Thank you for your patient!

Reflection Unit 4

I read one quotation and I will try to give a meaning “If one person will say you or help you –He will give you a fish, with what you may be alive for one day. He will teach you how to make smth. He will teach you how to fish.” Our instructor teaches us “how to fish” by new methods of teaching English. I liked the way of work with maps. It is too difficult to describe or to show some way, but with this activity we could share useful methods of working with map.

Reflection. Unit 5

I have learned from this Unit:

• How to survive at the party
• How to use Nicenet
• To use sport prepositions

I want to suggest continue the lessons by using Internet.

Reflection. Unit 6

This Unit was very interesting. We had a seminar with native speakers Ersilia and Reinhard.  Ersilia taught us new methods in teaching English. I learned interesting games. Reinhard presented to us his travelling to Papua New Guinea. It was unusual lesson for me, because I could ask questions about his life there. At my lesson I told to my students about PNG, they were very surprised  because of their customs and traditions.

I want to add one thing. It is a Murphy Law. I couldn’t translate the word or the phrase «закон подлости» and I have never thought it would be like “Murphy Law”. About 3 conditions: I had some questions in using these conditions and I could find answers to my questions.

Joroeva Aizirek

Joroeva Aizirek

I have learnt so many things from the Unit 2. Especially I preferred activities which our teacher used for us during the lesson. I can use activities and games in my lesson which we used during lessons. It was difficult for me to communicate with partners. This is my character that I can’t get on which strange people. I like each of our lessons, because our teacher is brilliant.

Reflection. Unit 3
For the Unit 3 I have learnt the difference between promises and result, discussed the difference in using phrases with Look..., and learnt about optimistic and pessimistic phrases. Generally, I revise my learning, but also have learnt shemes for Grammar tenses that can be useful for my classes.
I want to learn more games for small children, because it's difficult to find games and use them in my classes.

Reflection. Unit 4 
I have learnt how to organize activities for levels of adjectives. I have learnt how to explain Present Perfect. Before I was a little bit pessimist, but after lessons I change my ideas. We could share ideas about problems with teenagers about Zara store. I can use activity with map, texts as a suplementary reading like Zara Store in order to make it more interesting.
My suggestion is to watch films on English and discuss after watching it.
Also, I think it would be better if we have more discussions, talking about different interesting topics and to learn more new words in order to enlarge our vocabulary.

Reflection. Unit 5

It was very useful , Unit 5 for  me:

• At first we could learn difference between verb+ infinitive and verb followed by-ing
• Difference between must and have to, in-into
• Some kind of sport, like jumping from train to train
• Formal letter’s rules
• Internet to work with nicenet, Facebook and other programs.

I can us those grammar rules and the game which we played with chairs. It would be very interesting for all levels and any grammar or lexical topics. I want to learn more games, because all school children are interested in games.

Reflection. Unit 6

Day by day my English is improving better. I could revise some grammar themes. Murphy’s Law was interesting, because I didn’t know the translation of that phrase. Before I couldn’t diffenetiate the words know/meet, borrow/lend. I have learnt about first and second conditional forms. I could  improve my knowledge about writing a formal  letter.

My suggestion is that my listening is poor. Can we listen more and more? We need more native speakers at our lessons, except of discussion club.

Reflection. Unit 7

The seventh Unit was very interesting for me, because we discussed about our fears and phobias. We have learnt so many grammar rules and we could remember therm, for example used to was a little confused rule for me. Perfect tense’s rules were also interesting during our studying. We discussed differences between active and passive voice.

Reflection. Unit 8

Talking about our body, life style, personality was very interesting for me. We could improve our English on phrasal verbs, neither, so auxiliaries. Before discussion about it I was in confusion.

The songs were  very pleasant for us. We can improve day by day our listening.

I hope that if we have such themes at our lessons, we can explain them without difficulties. My suggestion is I need more listening, because it is my weak point.

A Discussion Club with a native speaker Reinhard Hohl

A  Discussion Club with a native speaker Reinhard Hohl.

Teachers from two groups participated at the meeting and have heard the information about World Explorers. Teachers teach this topic at school and they shared their experience of using teaching methods for explanation the main ideas of this topic.
Several suggestions were made- to be familiar with the topic of discussion, than  teachers can be prepared for it better. Another one-is that they will propose the topics for discussion and it will be interesting to them.

Session #2  March, 16, 2013
The topic of the meeting was "Travelling".
Teachers of the group were introduced to the topic through the song "Susanna". Brainstorming was useful to identify the meaning of travelling for teachers and the objectives of it. The discussion about the dream land  motivated teachers to thing about the values of learning new culture traditions, new country, environmnet, people and so on for the future input into our society. Speaker introduced to teachers Ireland by main factsheets, World map, Irish songs and dances and answered on many questions that were interested to teachers. The discussion was interesting and teachers were motivated to know more about this country and to teach it to theur students at schools.

Session #3 April, 27, 2013 
the virtual travelling to Papua New Guinea  allow the students learn about the  primitive lifestyle, culture and traditions of people who live there. Presentation of video information, main statistical information, and piggy language dictionary was very interesting for participants of the project. They were very surprised that 700 different groups of people with own languages live on the small area of PNG and  many of them do not have ideas about wheel, metal, and other industrial products.
Discussion between groups about this country was supported by  an excellent source of information, who lived in this country for two years, and could present it by his own experience of living there.

Session #4 May, 11, 2013
 "Travelling to London" was provided by Renhard Hohl to AEPE students of our group. He has lived there for many years and just recently had a vacation in London. From his own expereince he presented interesting information about London, historical places, culture, traditions, facts that were so interesting for our teachers. We compared several words that are different in  British English and American. Reinhard prepared presentation with pictures, photos, post cards, map about London and it was useful to understand the beautiful view, the situation and location of London. Many questions were raised and answers were provided. Students understood topic and shared this information with their class students at schools and University

Session #5 June 15, 2013
The role of Internet and  globalization were discussed at the meeting with teachers in a club. Reinhard presented general  ideas , and provocative questions "Can we trust to any information that we can find through Internet sources? How can we believe the source? Will it be useful to compare different sources?  How teachers will teach there students to use information? What plagiarism means? and etc.." Teachers participated in a role game where they experienced the role of teacher-candidate for the job vacancy " Teacher-specialist in language teaching English using traditional and new technology multimedia techniques". that required by imagined International school . Teachers presented their arguments and supported them by different facts from articles that were distributed before at the class. It was an interesting and exciting discussion, where  all agreed that Internet will be used by teachers as a new generation know it better how to use it:)). Teachers created blog page where they reflect on their teaching experience and it motivates them to work and to use Internet.In a conclusion, Reinhard summarized the main points of a discussion and presented the criteria for assessment of public speaking speech that can be done in the future by teachers at the time of discussion with their students.

Mukadas Tashieva

Mukadas Tashieva

AEPE is a course for teachers where we can start everything from the beginning and learn deeply English language. We have started it from 7^th of February. The book that we use is New English File Pre-Intermediate level. I would like to share with you about our first Unit, because I have gained grammar and interesting methods  of teaching. We have started from Introduction, using grammar structure like present Simple tense, Present Continuous and relative clauses. Moreover, each grammar structure followed by exercises and texts which are very useful for us.

The second, I am learning teaching methods from our Instructor Natalya. Her methods are fulfilling my teaching methods and it helps me to develop my professional career in teaching English language.

Reflection
Studying at AEPE course is becoming more and more interesting than before, because now we have finished the second Unit. There are four parts of the Unit and all of them were very interesting and useful for us. Moreover, we are all teachers and during all classes I learnt the teaching process for different kinds of Grammar themes. For example, picture presentations I like the most, because our teacher asked us to draw a picture (topics) and to present it as if it would be in a picture gallery or museum. It helps them to develop their thinking and speaking skills.
I am now using the predicting for topics, as we do at our classes.
Recommendations:
I would like if our classes would provide more discussions on one topic and to have argue with each other because it would increase our thinking and arguing skills also. Thank you for everything!

Reflection. Unit 4 
 Studying of AEPE course, we are doing our best with our facilitator. Now we have finished the fourth Unit and we have learnt about present perfect, comparative and superlative adjectives. Of course, these grammar topics were not a novelty for us, but we could enlarge our knowledge with the help of different kinds of exercises. "Map activity" was the most interesting and useful activity I have ever seen, because using map directions is very helpful for students at any age. I suggest to my group to speak English more than in previous time, like discussion or solving problems. Thank you very much!
P.S.: I like the way of learning new words, like "temerariously". I want to suggest you to go on and the wordswill be not only one, but four or five.

Reflection Unit 6

Unit 6 was one of the interesting with grammar, because step by step the training materials are becoming more difficult. Of course, we know about these topics, but the teaching methods are different and new. 

Reflection. Unit 7

Studying at AEPE course we have finished luckily the Unit 7. In earning at this Unit I like the most our self-presentation of the grammar topics “used to, passive voice”, because our trainer divide us in two groups and we were able to present the whole theme in a definite time. Moreover. we used some of methods that our trainer teaches.

Every Unit, one by one gives us more information  and we gain more methods for teaching.