RSC Sant Cugat 2016: The magic of EYP

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The past 5th of February the 2nd regional selection conference in Sant Cugat started. The session lasted a whole weekend, where the delegates were able to learn and discuss about the current events involving the European Union.

On Friday 5th, the officials met in Sant Cugat to get to know each other. After they had lunch they practised Teambuilding and did committee work, so everything worked smoothly during the session. The next day, the delegates were grouped in committees and started their own Teambuilding so they got to know each other better. Afterwards, each delegate got to delve into each correspondent issue.

Maddy Tavenier & Alan Carr

I started by finding a clip that I would like to show in class. I chose a clip of Alan Carr as I believed it had very good vocabulary and because of its content.

The worksheet was not difficult to create, as finding questions for the listening activity was pretty straightforward and the clip included a good amount of vocabulary for the first activity. Although, it was not easy to write the questions so that they were not ambiguous or misunderstood.

As for the lesson, I believe it went well considering I had never done an activity like this before. I was not nervous, which did help but I did notice that there was a bit more time and could have done one more exercise.

From this experience I have learnt that I have to be careful with the way I answer students when correcting the answers, as I should give them more praise. Also, I believe I should be more aware of the time I have and therefore I should use it completely so that there is not a point where the students do not have anything to do.