In my last post I spoke about an activity to use with a new group of young teenagers, where they are given the opportunity to tell me what they are interested in. Here are some of the results, in no particular order:
Likes and Interests
Sports Computer games Shopping Reading Watching TV Talking to friends
Drawing Listening to music Girls Chatting on MSN Football
Basketball Justin Bieber Technology Art History
Preferred Class Activities
Playing Combiletter (a word game)
Listening to songs
Talking to my friends (one can imagine that this would be in Spanish)
Watching a film/video
Talking about interesting things (whatever they are!)
Speaking to girls (Yes, a new obsession has appeared over the summer for one boy!)
Topics to study in class
Art
Famous People
World news
Technology
Science
History
Conversations
Problems
Grammar
Pronunciation
Writing
The Doodle Space didn't give too much away, but I did discover that we have a very talented artist in the class! I also got the impression that quite a few of the kids like drawing Manga style characters. Being allowed to draw while they worked seemed to give them the impression that the activity was more fun. I monitored closely to make sure they were all actually working and not just doodling, helping out with ideas where necessary.
Hopefully I will be able to draw on this information to provide more motivating activities to use to supplement our course book.
