After this touching welcoming, we found another student of the course in Bell Teacher Campus, also Galician and colleague with whom I knew at my first job in the IES Lama das Quendas in Chantada. It is seen that the world is smaller than we think! Inspects the facilities of Homerton College and then we went to sleep because here people usually get up early.
Monday: we had to got up early because they serve breakfast at 7:30 pm. Then, a short presentation of what will be our program activities and meeting with leaders that we have in these two weeks. Our teacher is called Anna Young and was responsible for teaching us the different classes we have, from the library to the computer room.
Our group consists of 20 people from 8 different nationalities (Japanese, Russian, Italian ...) and this first session, the activities were designed to break the ice and introduce. First, we had to sit in alphabetical order by which this activity forced them to ask the names of our colleagues.
The next task was to put an adjective to the person who was beside us who started the first letter of her name. Then, in a sheet we had to write our name and our adjective, we took the folio on our back and the other person had to write him a question about our personal and professional lives to count ten questions. With our answers, we come to make a small group mural. Among four people, we had to write this information in a colorful cardboards and adorn with some designs to put on the wall. These activities appear in the book Being Creative, Chaz Pugliese.
The second part of the class focused on idioms in English. Once explained their meanings, once again we had to search among those attending the course, people who felt identified with these expressions. The phrases we use in this activity are included in the book English Idioms in Use, McCarthy / O'Dell and Check Your Vocabulary for Phrasal Verbs and Idioms, R. Wyatt.
In the afternoon finished our first class. Lunch break and then, at two o'clock we started the class. Hour and a half we did on a test of general culture on the UK (Group work - Intermeditate, Peter Watcyn-Jones) and at the end, we analyze the different activities we did today to be able to adapt to other circumstances. The truth is that the class passed quickly and the course looks like it will be interesting. Try to get the blog up to date but it will be difficult because we will not have much time.
