Comenius

Hi everybody,
What have you been doing since we last got together?
We cannot see each other very much as we are all trying to get prepared for the graduation ceramony. I want to share another think with you. I have been admitted to a school in Berlin with Comenius programme but I am not going, as I said ok. to Metu College. Do you think I chose the right option? What would you do if you were in my shoes?

I am looking forward to hear good news from you related to your jobs and I wish success for the ones who will enter KPSS this weekend.
Let's keep sharing even after METU. see you...

Now I have a job :)

Hi everybody,

I have some news for you. I will work at METU College in Manisa for the following years and this is my new school. I am so happy to work for a college like METU College as all of us know how wonderful an institution it is. I will return to my hometown after eight years and I think it has both advantages and disadvantages for me. However, it is a great feeling to have a job and I am so relaxed now. I hope all of us will find good jobs and we will all be happy. I am looking forward to hear good news from you. see you all....

Assessed Teaching :(

My assessed teaching was on Tuesday, but I did not have time to reflect on it up to now. First of all, it was not good and I made lots of silly mistakes. My mentor teacher frankly but without offending said that it was not good compared to the teachings I have done previously. I want to share one of my silly mistakes with you :) In a matching activity, there were two columns with sentences and phrases and the students began to do matching according to the first column which is numbered. However, I said that they should go according to the phrases. After the first one, I understood my mistake but it was too late. I still cannot find the reason why I said them to do so :) But I think it was due to the unnecessary excitement I had that day. Anyway, I am aware of my mistakes and I am aware that they were out of anxiety. Of course, I will not do such silly things in my own class, which is the point.

Galatasaray

No need to say much,

We are the champion,
We are the best......

A Game for the Comparison of Simple Present and Present Continuous Tense

Hi,

I have taught a lesson last week and my topic was the comparison of Simple Present and Present Continuous Tense. If you have read the comments on my post "some help" you may know that Sibel hocam liked the game I included in my lesson plan and wanted me to post it. Actually, I have changed a game that I found on the Internet to include both of these tenses.

The picture is the game board I stuck on the board. I divided the class into two parts and chose a student from one of the groups. The student chosen came to the board, rolled the dice and forwarded on the game board according to the dice. Once s/he came on one of the pictures, s/he tried to guess what is being done in the picture using Present Continuous Tense. When s/he could say it correctly, s/he asked a question related to everyday life to one of his/her group members. For example, s/he first said “She is dancing.” and asked one of the friends “Do you like dancing?” When s/he could do all of these correctly, s/he chose one of his/her group members to continue to give change to every student in the group. If s/he could not form a sentence and a question, the other group took turn.

The students liked the game very much and they were so motivated to take part. They asked so many varied questions that I could not guess earlier. One of them for example asked "Where do we usually wash the dishes?" for the first picture :)

KPDS

Hi everyone,
First of all, how was your exam? Mine was ok I think and I hope all of we can have good results. What I want to ask about this exam is that do you know how much will be added to our salary if we get A from this exam. Lately, I have heard that it is only 30 liras but I do not think that it is that low. Do you know anything about it?

Some Help

hi again everbody,
I need help for two things and I hope you can make some suggestions for me.
The first one is that this Tuesday I will have a lesson at METU College and I am supposed to be teaching Simple Present and Present Continuous Tenses. I will not have a presentation part but only practice and production activities and make the students see the difference between these two tenses. so if you know any good activity to emphasize the difference, can you share it with me? But please be quick if you help me, because as I said it is for Tuesday morning:(
The second one is that I have a three diamentional audio and I want to share it with you but I cannot apload it. Is there anyone who knows what I should do?