Throughout the sessions

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Session

2n A – GROUP 1

2n A – GROUP 2

2n B – GROUP 1

2n B – GROUP 2

In general, their prior knowledge of the concepts was really low. It seems that they have never tackled these topics. At the beginning, they were very afraid because the questionnaire was difficult for them. They did not want to give it to me because they did not answer all the questions. According to the national curriculum, understanding oral messages related to routines and time without any visual support is content for medium cycle. Therefore, the starting point was really high for the standards. When I explained the rules for the following sessions, they were surprised. Students were used to certain routines and those changes made them feel insecure. Therefore, they had some doubts about how they could change the seats and they asked questions like these: - How will I remember where I have already sat?

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Can we repeat seat?

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How long will we be changing seats? Is it for the whole course?

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Why do we change the seat?

When they watched the video, the comprehension of the text with the pictures was really better than listening only to the voice. This is what I expected because, according to the national curriculum, it is one of the goals for initial cycle. Anyway, although they were in silence, they were not probably listening to the audio because they could understand it looking only at the pictures and they did not catch any word. When we translated the vocabulary into English, they repeated all the words in order to pronounce them correctly but it was difficult for them. In addition, they tried to guess some words following some patterns they already know. For example, they said ‘ESMORZING’ instead of ‘HAVE BREAKFAST’ and ‘GO CAS’ instead of ‘GO HOME’.

There were some problems with the audio. It was too fast for them but we found a solution. The group was very participative.

The group was very talkative and I had to be angry with some students.

There were some problems with the audio. It didn’t work properly but we found a solution. They stayed calm during these technological problems but some of them stood up.

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Throughout the sessions by Maria Arrufat - Issuu