Test Week!

That's right kiddies... that means classes are finally over!

I've finished my fifth year grades entirely as they were due on Monday. I've entered in all of the first year grades and they are now subject to examination before finalization. I only have a "few" projects to grade for my fourth year classes and I'm finished entering grades in.

Then I'm on to my "office days" work... preparing for next year. I'm psyched for the last semester. Whew.

Gee, thanks (you little b@st@rds!)

So, this is how my students (C1) see me.

Family ties

Bruce was talking about using cards and having the Ss make family trees. I was thinking that Ss could work in pairs to construct a family tree together by following an example made on the board or possibly with PowerPoint.

The teacher would have magnetic pictues of different family members and they would be put on the board sequentially while eliciting responses from the class regarding their title.

This would be a good first day activity. Go over the question forms as well:

• How many ___ does she have?
• Who is her ___?

Another idea is a card game with four cards to a suit. The different suits are different families. Students have to somehow match up suits by asking questions to the other students. Yeah, right. Well, this idea still needs a lot of development I guess.