The Language Bridges Experience
From students to teachers:
Spring of 2013 with Language Bridges is turning out to be a wonderful and life-changing experience,
for not only the students who have demonstrated the courage to participate but also for us, (Dana Al-Hail, Alaa Khader and Rayan Mahmoud ) at the beginning we had a class of five students and in the
mid-semester we merged with Masha and Mehreen on Sundays Class. Initially we were trying with
some difficulty to get the hang of teaching for a long period of time in front of students we never knew
before, yet once we played some Ice breakers all was smooth.
Here's a picture of the students keenly listening to our explanation of some english grammar.
Teaching English; speaking, reading and writing:
We started the semester with a mix of all the forms of communicating and interacting in english.
Speaking was the easiest to do for all our students and as the semester progressed the level and amount of communication between us and our students increased; in a broad overview we covered how to talk about yourself, your family, and job in professional and personal life using a variety of different verbs and adjectives that they learned and hopefully retained.
Students playing a synonyms game
Another fun interactive part that helped strengthen and support the students' mental store of words for writing and speaking was playing games that demonstrated the differences and similarities between words. Here, the students were given a computer generated word and were asked to look at a list of several words and select the word with the closest meaning. Together we had lots of laughs and at the end it was a diverse way of learning that enhanced their understanding of english words and their meaning.
The last Sunday Class! :
The day came when we had to wrap up our Language Bridges experience, it was quite a bittersweet moment, but in the end an appreciated moment that we will all value.
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