My reflection on last week

Our second semester come to us with lots of tasks and activities, all of us are passing a hard time. Previous week we have presented our need analysis and FGD report before the class for our Syllabus design and material development course. It was really hard work for us, and we have to present a presentation on our proposed syllabus. For next week I with my group members have to make materials according to the syllabus.

Now I am going to tell about another class of practicum 1. In this week we observed two classes of BRAC University and one class of Devpro. The participants back ground was BRAC employee of Micro finance program. The participants were so active in group works and spontaneous also. And I also took a micro-teaching in Medhabikash and for this I got 15 minutes only to teach the class on passive voice. It was all about my last week.

Different blogs and their uses.

1.

Explorer’s name: Hura Jannat Binta Azad

Blog name: English with a Twist

Blog address: http://englishwithatwist.com

Name of the blogger: Shanthi Cumaraswamy Streat.

Blog topic (what is it about): Making learning the English language fun

Blog Level: Intermediate and Advanced level.

My reaction:

Liked it? – yes.

Did not like it?-

Interesting?- Yes,  it is interesting.

Overall summary of the blog: The blog posts about winter, movie genres, aspects of grammar, and tips on improving email writing skills.

My recommendation: yes, I want to recommend this blog for advanced learners, because it will help them to know how to use and when to use proper words to express their thoughts. It could be helpful for them for their self learning and understanding.

2.

Explorer’s name: Hura Jannat Binta Azad

Blog name: ABA Teachers’s Blog

Blog address: http://www.abaenglish.com/blog/

Name of the blogger:

Blog Level: Advanced level.

My reaction:

Liked it? – yes.

Did not like it?-

Interesting?- Yes,  

Overall summary of the blog:  This blog includes grammar, reading, writing, listening and speaking, vocabulary. it can be used for all types of level, it has different part for different learner.

My recommendation: yes, I want to recommend this blog. Though the blog is helpful for language trainer, but it also can be used for intermediate students. It includes the grammar part of English as well as it also covers the 4 skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening) of language. From this the learner can get idea and can improve themselves.

3.

Explorer’s name: Hura Jannat Binta Azad

Blog name: Phrase mix

Blog address: http://www.phrasemix.com

Blog topic (what is it about): It is about English phrase and it provides explanations of what they mean and the context in which area they are used.

Blog Level: Intermediate level.

My reaction:

Liked it? – Yes.

Did not like it?-

Interesting? - Yes,  

Overall summary of the blog:  ‘Phrase Mix’ is a wonderful site that fully examines English phrases. It provides explanations of what they mean and the contexts in which they are used.   The blog section features diverse topics such as how to avoid language mistakes and famous English movie quotes. The tone is warm, friendly and engaging with a nice undercurrent of humor.   The average posts are fairly short at around 200-300 words.  All are packed with great information that is neatly presented on the page.

My recommendation: yes, I want to recommend this blog. Though the blog is helpful the learner can get idea and can improve themselves.

Reflection of class

Last week I was busy with so many activities. For my Syllabus design and material development course we have done needs analysis survey and focus group discussion on undergraduate students. When we were doing survey as well as FGD, the students were in a hurry because it was 5 pm and they were tired but they helped us so much and gave us their valuable time.  Here I want to mention another person’s name, it was one of our teacher from BIL, who helped us so much that without his help it was so difficult for us to do this survey and FGD. Now we are going to find out their needs on English language course and preparing report on this survey and FGD in a group. My group members are so helpful and enthusiast, for this it makes easy and it improves our team spirit.

Now I am going to state another course, it is teaching practicum 1 course. For this course I observed three classes in BRAC University. Three classes covered three different perspectives; one class was on writing topic sentence that means after this class the students will be able to write topic sentence, the second class was for fresher’s, who doesn't take part in the 1^st semester for undergrad yet and this class is called pre-university class, it’s a non-credit semester for the students who are little bit week in English. After the successful complete of this semester the students will get chance to get admission in the university. And the last but not the least class was on listening and speaking. By this class observation I learned so many new techniques to handle the students and how to overcome from some critical event in the class. Each teacher had their different teaching methods and techniques and it will be helpful for me, when I will take any language class.

Another course I want to discuss, it is Introduction of linguistics, and from this class I learned so many things. As because I am from non English background means I did Masters in political science so it is interesting for me when I got to know about different sounds of vowels and constants. In my entire education life I know that there are five vowels and twenty one consonants. But in this course I come to know the different sounds of vowel and consonant. To make this course easy and understandable to us, our course teacher is using practical example and it grows my interest on this course. Now let’s see how the whole things go on.