Now our lessons are devoted to 4 skills. The first skill is listening. It's receptive skill. We spoke about intensive and extensive listening, listening levels and skills, listening principles, criteria to choose a suitable listening text, writing questions to go with an authentic listening text , staging a listening lesson.
      And now some words about my lesson. It was devoted  Money. My pupils heard the dialog   between 2  students. They heard 2 times. It's good, at least 2 times they had to listen  for practicing. Then they did activities according to the material, which they had heard.
    It's  important to remember about  peculiarities of you pupils' age.  However, a number of important differences between adult and child learning and between first and second language acquisition must be carefully accounted for.  For example, primary school students have their peculiarities, we should think about it. In the first part of lesson student should  recognize, understand. The second part of lesson  is devoted to practice.  Remember it.




                                                            
 

    Next  week was devoted to teaching pronunciation. We had 2 lesson , for the first one we prepared seminar about teaching pronunciation. We spoke about presentation of new material, system of exercises for consolidation, classroom techniques and materials, pronunciation practice. Of course we spoke about methods in teaching pronunciation. We can read words all together(I mean pupils), then as groups. then individually. And It's good idea to use rhymes.
I know some, but I'll add rhymes.
  I would like to speak about knowledge of children's learning of their first language provides
essential insights to an understanding of SLA. If he oder she  did not know his language and he /she can't  understand it. Also I wanted to  speak  about my lesson.  The theme are English speaking  countries. Pupils were taught  how correctly pronounce word. System of activities for  teaching pronunciation. It's important of course.

   Our next week was devoted to teaching vocabulary. Of course, before lessons planning we had the seminar devoted to teaching vocabulary. We spoke about how to present a  new material, activities to familiarize students with new vocabulary, creative and productive exercises,vocabulary assessment.

   But I would like to write about my lesson. The theme was Seasons. I prepared cards, presentation, activities. It had a system of  activities. First of all it's recognition  of new words, their pronunciation, spelling, meanings. Then we will use it in practice with help of exercises like matching, drill, speech preparatory exercises, communicative usage.

  It's important to teach vocabulary. You should increase their lexicon. Then they will be able to produce a good speech, with synonyms, without mistake.

 

The 8th week was very interesting for me, because it was about teaching grammar. Teaching grammar is one of the most important parts of teaching grammar. I prepared my lesson for this week, it was about the degrees of comparison of adjectives.

   When you are going to teach grammar, you should choose between inductive and deductive approaches. I decided to choose inductive approach. It's when students should guess the theme of grammar through exercises. I like my plan,  because I created book with exercises for my lesson and my group mates were glad to learn through interesting book with exercises. It was connected with my theme of lesson Fairy tale. Of course, I used system of exercises which we learned through  lection. They are presentation of grammar, than recognition , drill, identification, imitation and other. I had excellent mark for my lesson and it’s  a  good  motivation to learn about methodology more and more. I will be a teacher, I want it, and I will do my best for it.  

   I would  like to write some words about  affective domains. Important feelings for me are   self-esteem and risk-taking. They  connected to each other.  Risk- taking is an important characteristic of successful learning of a second language learning.  I didn’t  use to take risk, but now  I think I was not right. We should try to do something  useful for us , must to take  a  risk  because  if  you don’t  do that, you will unhappy.  Another emotion is  self-esteem. It depends on us. It expresses  an attitude of approval or disapproval, successfulness and worthiness. Than less important emotions for me   are  anxiety and prohibition.  Of course, it’s normal to feel emotions of apprehension, because we are learning a foreign  language. We can afraid of  troubles at first time of learning. Next feeling is inhibition.  It protects language ego.  Next  emotions  are  empathy and  extroversion, which included in affective domains. Empathy is useful for us, future  teachers. We should understand what our pupils are feeling. We must help them if it is necessary for them. And what about extroversion or introversion. I like to communicate, but I think I am an  introvert.

   I might feel a sense of a second ego developing within me,  since I  started to  study at the institute. At school my  learning of English was not my main aim, but now I realized in importance of that fact. I am getting used  to learn another   culture, intonation, specific gestures, peculiarities of English people. And part of me  linked with language and his right usage.

   Of course  my tendencies  should change. It  doesn’t  mean, that I must not develop my abilities. I have some problems with pronunciation and it is influencing  on my self-esteem. I am doing my best for solving this problem. When I solve this problem my self-esteem will higher. It is good.

   I am an introvert. I think it is better to be extrovert if you going to be a teacher. I am a sensing student, it’s good. Students  of that type are open, flexible, adaptable to change and new experiences. They are good qualities for future teachers. I am a judger. I try to do my work systematically  and in time. I am a thinker. Analyzing  my work and actions is a good capability for teacher. That is my characteristic. And I think I have some qualities for being good teacher. I will try.

At  school, when I started  to  learn foreign  language, I was intrinsically motivated and now  nothing
 changed. I want to know English very well, because I am going to be a teacher. My knowledge is that I will teach pupils, and I should make my aims become  true.

 

  I want to say that    it’s important   for me to use visual and auditory learning styles. They are dominant for me. Learners, who tend to prefer reading and studying charts, drawings, and other graphic information, have visual input, while learner, who prefer listening to lectures and audiotapes, have auditory input.  I like more visual input than auditory. I can remember information if I see it. It’s easier and you can  remember pictures, diagrams with information you need.

  Some words about our role game. We divided into 2 families. I was one of members of Brown family. My name was Simon. I had father, mother, sister and grandmother. My mother earned twice more than my father. I was a problem   of  my family. I considered  that  college was a boring place and I decided to work. I was not a student any more, I was a saler  and I liked my work. I said about it to my sister and no one else know about it. But then my grandmother heard about my situation and of course said about it to my parents. We talked about my problem and decided than I must study. My father will find second job. I  will  be a manager. And another  Smith family. They had problem too.  The Smith family consist of  father, mother, son and daughter. Their mother  is older than her husband for 2 years and she is the head of the family and she works all time. Father is unemployed.  Their son got married to Caroline, but no one like her. She is always busy and she works hard.  Daughter  is lazy as her father. The problem of this family are relationship between Caroline and other members of family and lazy father and daughter. And their solution was that  lazy father and daughter will do household, because other members do not have time for it.

     When I was a pupil, my approach to learning foreign language was Ausubelian, but now I like combination of  Ausubelian and Rogersian. I think it's important how to teach children. Teachers should be  facilitator, must be genuine and sincere. Teacher need communicate openly with their students. Teaching of foreign language must be effective and have a meaning because  meaningful and rote learning are too parts of useful and effective teaching . But I think rote learning depends on student, of course, students should rote rules, poems but not everything.
  Different teachers of English taught me foreign language. And approaches to teaching were different , of course, it depends on  teacher. Sometimes we didn't have opportunity to emit language. But the last teacher was better than others and I thanks her. We spoke more. If I don't have opportunity to speak, I find ways how to change it. I speak to  my group mate or trying often to use English(with family, friends who don't understand me but then I explain all).
   I like learning English. I learn it for myself. My group mate are allies or competitors, but I like competition. I think If someone knows language better than me, I will try to learn English  and know better than hem. It is kind type of competition.
   I read about 7 types of intelligence of Gardner and in my opinion  linguistic, bodily-kinesthetic , interpersonal,  intrapersonal intelligence  are useful for learning for me . I am sorry, but I have not   been taught with the methods summarized at the end of the chapter.
   

    OK, I have some debts and I would like to change it. First, some words about my pronunciation. It is not so good, but I'm trying to improve it. I'm doing my best. For instance, in my phone I  removed all songs on Russian language, I like to see films with English subtitles. I like  to communicate with  native speakers of English in  social networking.
  Children have some secrets of success, for example again  about pronunciation, they repeat after teacher's words. They don't ask about  word's transcription, articulation and so on. It means that studying can be easier for them than for us. What about their secrets, I could use them at school, but nowadays I don't use secrets like that.
   Small group conversations  are   easier than others  for me, because we communicate to each other, we improve  our skills for discussion, we fill up our vocabulary. It's easier than others because you don't need anything. Only you and your wish to learn foreign language.
   We have some advantages and they are sense of purpose, assiduity, resilience and opportunity to be patient.

     Every  teacher  should  have his or her approach in teaching of foreign learning. Every learner is unique. Every teacher is unique. Every learner-teacher relationship is unique, and every context is unique. You can build a theory based on principles of second language learning and teaching. And it can help you formulate your  own  approach in teaching. I think for your approach's successfulness you must use new useful methods, new technology, may be language games and so on. I will try to create my own  effective approach!!!

      On the one of the lessons of methodology of foreign language  I  have learned about some  rules for teacher.They are include such rules as to clean a board at the end of the lesson. It always must be ready for the next lesson.Then  the teacher should start and finish a   lesson on time! You have to return borrowed things. It can be need teacher for the next  lesson or preparing tests or so on.You should use computers  and class's  equipment  neatly , don't break them, and if something broke, you must report about it. Your   dress style should be official.    
     It was rules   that  I remembered and of course I will  use   them.

                     Hello! I am Anara and I will be a teacher of foreign languages.
    The first lecture of Modern Methods of Foreign Languages Teaching was today.  Our teacher said that we aren't students, we are teachers. She is right, because after 2 years we will  teach children! I don't know, what I'm feeling, but I want to be a teacher!