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Magic vol.2
I learnt a Magic called “the masked ball”.
1. Show the cards
2. Then shuffle them
3. I don’t need the jokers so take them out (in the video, the bottom cards×2 were jokers).
4. Ask someone else to divide the cards into two piles (in the video, I did it by myself) and turn the top deck (face up) and put is on the table
5. Ask the same person to divide the remaining deck into half again, so 3 piles in total.
6. Then put the first deck (from step4) between the two piles (from step5).
7. Show the cards and take out the middle part (where facing down) and put the other cards away (because I’m not going to use it anymore).
8. Divide the cards (from step7) into 4 piles and put the last 4 cards in front of each pile.
9. Then do the magic finger-snap and the 4 cards will be all King.
10. Since this magic is called the “the masked ball”, without the Queens the ball could not happen.
11. Fortunately, the cards under each Kings are their Queens. Now the masked ball is completed.
http://youtu.be/dn7zO-cGVCw
Magic
CAS Project – Magic (card tricks)
Since I was exploring an activity which involve creative skills, I came up with an idea of performing card tricks. For my Creativity area, I am going to practice several magic (card tricks). My final target is to create my original magic and present what I learnt.
Why magic? I believe it is one of the best performance that exist in the world (may be too exaggerated?). It evokes various positive emotions such as surprise and joy. Also I think that it is one of the method that could break the language barriers. Although magic involves taking, it is very obvious and easy-to-follow what is happening; it is not about 'thinking', it is about 'feeling' the magic.
This week I learnt a magic called "Triumph".
First I will shuffle the cards one facing up and one facing down. Now I will have a deck of cards that includes cards some are face up and down. But if I do the Magic finger-snap, all cards will face up!
http://youtu.be/C0u5ieDJNeU
Since I was exploring an activity which involve creative skills, I came up with an idea of performing card tricks. For my Creativity area, I am going to practice several magic (card tricks). My final target is to create my original magic and present what I learnt.
Why magic? I believe it is one of the best performance that exist in the world (may be too exaggerated?). It evokes various positive emotions such as surprise and joy. Also I think that it is one of the method that could break the language barriers. Although magic involves taking, it is very obvious and easy-to-follow what is happening; it is not about 'thinking', it is about 'feeling' the magic.
This week I learnt a magic called "Triumph".
First I will shuffle the cards one facing up and one facing down. Now I will have a deck of cards that includes cards some are face up and down. But if I do the Magic finger-snap, all cards will face up!
http://youtu.be/C0u5ieDJNeU
Tutor
As mentioned in the previous feedback section, since Shuntaro (my previous student) passed his STEP (oral) exam, I have completed my task. However, there was another parent, who heard about the improvement my student made in a short period of time, she offered me more work as a private tutor. So from this month, I am teaching another student from the Japanese School of Moscow and her name is Yukiko Hashimoto, year six.
When I received a new offer from her parent, I felt that I was actually doing something useful for other people. I believe that this success was the result of my efforts to improve my teaching skills and the quality of my lessons. Through this experience I have learnt the importance of preparation in order to maintain a high standard, as well as how to think from my students' point of view so that they could get the most out of our study sessions.
Unlike the first time teaching Shuntaro, I felt easier to teach Yukiko, perhaps, this is because that I already gained enough skills and techniques to teach.
We began our lesson by a simple introduction section, which we introduced ourselves and discussed her hobbies (in english). Then I prepared some textbooks to see her level of english. Her knowledge of English is a bit limited and it was her second time to have English lesson in her life. In the lessons, we went through the textbook. From my previous experience, I felt that the use of textbook is very helpful in order to explain the use of tenses and phrases.
My main teaching target is to teach her basic English vocabularies and phrases for beginners, including alphabets i.e. a level that enables her to pass the “STEP test Grade4”.
In the next lesson we will continue solving questions on the book and while I will also explain the meaning of each word and try to answer her question.
When I received a new offer from her parent, I felt that I was actually doing something useful for other people. I believe that this success was the result of my efforts to improve my teaching skills and the quality of my lessons. Through this experience I have learnt the importance of preparation in order to maintain a high standard, as well as how to think from my students' point of view so that they could get the most out of our study sessions.
Unlike the first time teaching Shuntaro, I felt easier to teach Yukiko, perhaps, this is because that I already gained enough skills and techniques to teach.
We began our lesson by a simple introduction section, which we introduced ourselves and discussed her hobbies (in english). Then I prepared some textbooks to see her level of english. Her knowledge of English is a bit limited and it was her second time to have English lesson in her life. In the lessons, we went through the textbook. From my previous experience, I felt that the use of textbook is very helpful in order to explain the use of tenses and phrases.
My main teaching target is to teach her basic English vocabularies and phrases for beginners, including alphabets i.e. a level that enables her to pass the “STEP test Grade4”.
In the next lesson we will continue solving questions on the book and while I will also explain the meaning of each word and try to answer her question.
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