30th of November - Question test and second animal

So I finally caught up with the past lessons and can write about today's :-)

Today they had to take the following test: Question Test & how much/how many

The whole thing was a little complicated because the main teacher had a discussion with her mentor during the last two lessons of the morning. Well first they took this test and then two of them had to take the vocabulary test as well because they had been sick on Friday so I let them start while some of the others were still working on the question test. I had to wait to give them the listening until all the others were finished with their test. So I asked the class to have a look at page 14+15 form the Pupils Book. It's two pages with fact sheets about the Arctic Tern, the Green Turtle, the Grey Whale and the Monarch Butterfly. I asked the class to read very quietly through those fact sheets while the two could listen to the listening test for the first time. Then I talked with the class a little about those animals that they have read about and it was again time for the two to listen to their text again... So I asked the others to look at them again and decide which animal they would like to know a little more about. This was definitely not ideal but these two had to take the test and I had no one else to supervise them outside the classroom...

When the two were finally finished it was just about ten minutes from the second lesson to be over. I very briefly explained what the next lesson would be about and what they needed to do for homework. They could choose an animal and do the active reading, which we usually do in class at home. They all have the MP3 files somewhere on their Players and they should work with this chosen text like they are used to for one hour. If they already understand it all after 30 minutes than the rest of the time could be used as passive listening.

And for Friday they should think of an animal they would like to do a presentation about. I want them to write a text about an animal they are interested in with the help of those two texts from the book. They can use sentences from those texts and just change the animal/speed/weight etc. Or they can write something totally different.

Like for the Rainbow Serpent Project I'll make a checklist for the class so they know exactly that they have to do to be able to make a very free presentation about their animal in front of the class. This will be the main issue of this Unit 2.

I'll write about the outcome of the unit 1 test in my reflection post after I have gotten all the grades.