Shun Haginoouchi BISM

Tutor Feedback section (Mar.)

This month we continued with the ’speaking’ practice.

I prepared some past papers and a textbook designed for this oral exam (shown below) and we practiced like in an exam situation. Also the textbook has helped me to teach because I just have to follow the steps on the book

Next month I will continue with the speaking practice.

Tutor Feedback section (Feb.)

This month we prepared for his oral exam in March.

In the first lesson, we practiced how to introduce ourselves and practice speaking.

07/02
Focused on vocabularies to express opinion and practice it.
E.g. ‘I think / in my opinion…’ ‘I like / I prefer…’ and etc.

14/02
Focused on vocabularies to describe photos and revise the words leant in previous lesson.
E.g. ‘there is/are…’ ‘He/she is doing…’ ‘I can see…’

21/02
Practiced speaking using the words learnt in the past three lessons.
Also using past papers for practice and give some exam tips.

31/01
I taught him how to introduce himself and we practiced speaking.
We started from some basics such as ‘my name is’ and end up with describing his hobby and what his daily routine.

I found today's lesson was quite easy because I have prepared some materials and a textbook to do.

However, my skill of explaining the meanings is not as good as I thought so I think some improvements are needed.

Next month, I am planning to continue with preparation for oral exam.

Ice Hockey (Feb.)

Tutor Feedback section (Jan.)

As mentioned last time, I played some video clips at the begging of the lesson as a warming-up exercise. After watching the video, I asked him to summarise the contents and then we discuss about the main points. Showing a cartoon to child at his age, was a perfect method to motivate him and to prevent boredom.
Video showed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pkn117amFw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ttt_BUQgBPM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tp5_gShq6Ws

For a year 7 students, an hour lesson is quite long and my student always gets demotivated at the middle of the lesson. So in one of the lessons, I introduced a new style of lesson came up by myself. If he gets the question correct, I will give him a point. Then if he achieved the target point, I will give him a snack. By employing this method, throughout the lesson, he was motivated to do the questions and the another good point is that he was enjoying doing the tasks. I found this is really useful when teaching small students.

From next lesson, we are going to focus on practising “speaking” because he will have his oral exam at March. We would start from some basic conversation and teach him how to describe a photo.

CAS Project Plan

For my CAS Project, I have decided to initiate 2 projects. One is based on creativity and another one is service based.

Creating a Photo Album

I will create a memorial photo album for people who are leaving the school.

This involved the following process:

1. Decide the concept and the style (design) of the album (until 12/02/2013)

2. Take and collect pictures (until 15/02/2013)

3. Shortlist and diced which photos to use (until 20/02/2013)

4. Edit the photos and perhaps make a collage from it (until 26/02/2013)

5. Ask people to write a message on it (until 11/03/2013)

6. Decide the layout and composition (until 14/03/2013)

7. Finally place all the pictures on the album
Finishing at 15/03/2013

I am hoping to achieve the following outcomes from this project:

Increase awareness of your strengths and areas for growth
Undertake new challenges
Planned and initiated activities
Worked collaboratively with others
Shown perseverance and commitment in their activities
Developed new skills

Enable my student to pass the oral exam of the STEP test pre2^nd grade

In Japan there is an examination call the Society for Testing English Proficiency (STEP test). My project is to teach him sufficiently to pass this oral part of this exam.

This involved the following process:

1. Decide the overall pace of the lesson

2. Decide what to do in each lesson

3. Prepare some materials for it

4. Put into practice

5. Develop my teaching skills

Learning Outcomes:

Increase awareness of your strengths and areas for growth
Undertake new
Planned and initiated activities
Worked collaboratively with others
Shown perseverance and commitment in their activities
Developed new skills
Engaged with issues of global importance

Ice Hockey & Basketball Feedback (January and December)

I took part in the ice hockey as well last week.
In the practice match, I scored 2 goals and won the game.
During the practice section, we practiced the formation (movement) of how to make a counter-attack and several pattern of attacking.

Helping the waitress serve the dishes

04/01/2013

There was a family gathering on the 4th of January in a Chinese food restaurant in Nagasaki. It is a Japanese tradition that to hold a gathering at the beginning of the year to great each other. All family members were involved also including relative. In total about 20 people had joined.

Because the owner of the restaurant was a friend of my relative, I helped the waitress serve the dishes and clean the table (only for our gathering). The work was much busy and than I thought.

Learning outcome

• Undertake new challenges ¬– It was my first to help serving the dishes

• Worked collaboratively with others – I had to communicate with other waitress, to know what I should do

• Shown perseverance and commitment in their activities – The workload was quite a lot than I expected, however I have completed my task with some help of the local staff.

• Developed new skills – I learnt how to serve properly and communicate with the customers politely.