Unit 11 was very interesting when thinking about the importance of reading and listening skills that our English Additional Language Learners are building...
It is notable that in the videos the teacher´s behavior is a little bit exxagerated (especially the second one), but in the real life, I suppose, the pluses and minuses are harder to see without filming a class or having somebody there for a feedback...
This unit has taught me the importance of eye contact, gestures, tone of voice and the overall presentation of the teacher himself/herself in managing a classroom with a view to maintain discipline, respect for the teacher and encouragement/motivation of students...
While brushing up the knowledge i already had about speaking & writing skills, this unit elaborated into a more wider aspects of it by linking it to the ESA technique,for it to highlight the creativity of the productive skills...
In this Unit, I learned the five(5) typical patterns that the most commonly taught when Teaching as a Foreign Language such as : Zero conditional, First conditional, Second conditional, Third conditional and Mixed conditional...
This unit was particularly interesting in that it not only covered various techniques to teach language but also various types of flow when it comes to planning a lesson and what kind of flow works well with high level or low level learners...