Week 20 West London B1+ Customs in KSA and abroad

Students in west London class discussed what customs are and what customs people from abroad have to follow when they travel and live in Saudi Arabia. We used Mr John as our example.

Students were then given 8 country flags and 8 customs that they had to discuss and match. The first group to get all matched correctly would be the winners for the day. Well done moataz, Muhannad and majed Al Najjar for matching the customs and their countries first!! 

Week 20 East London B1 game time!!

Students in East London enjoyed competing with each other in class 3 with an English board game. The game has questions on shapes, colours, animals and more. You have to answer the questions in no more than 20 seconds and if you answer correctly you move forward. Was played in a good fun spirit and was close games too.

Week 19 West and East London Presentations and ceremony

                                                      

This week we had our end of year ceremony. Our best presentation students from East and west London did their presentations in front of the whole school and were awarded certificates for their excellent work. 

East London winner - Maher

West London Winner  - Muadh 

Week 19 East London B1 Gestures

Students were given a sheet of gestures and without speaking had to act out the gestures as the rest of the class had to guess the exact meaning of each gesture.

Students discussed if they used these gestures and which gestures they didn't use much in Saudi Arabia.

Fingers crossed for good luck and hooray for celebrations were two that students did not know of. 

Week 19 East London B1 CS What do these emojis mean??

Week 19 East London B1 CS What do these emojis mean??

Students were shown a page of emojis and discussed when and why we use them. Students then chose 10 of their favourite emoji and wrote what it means or when they use them. 

Week 19 West London B1+ CS Common complaints at certain places

The class discussed what common complaints are and then discussed complaints can be different at different places we go to. The class listed 8 common places they visit. Then discussed in groups and then as a class all the common complaints they have had in all these places. System down at the bank was one of the classes favourite complaint.

Week 18 East London CS Roll the dice creative story writing

Creative writing ... Students had to roll the dice three times to choose three pictures. They then had to make a short story that had to include the three things in it. 

For thursdays quiz each student read their story without telling the group the three things and the class had to guess the three things after listening to the story.

Week 18 West London B1+ Making headlines

Students were given four pictures they had to make a headline of what is happening in each picture. Then write a short paragraph on what happened when It happened and where it happened. They had to make sure the story was interesting or funny. 

Week 18 East and West London B1/B1+ Presentation Day

Presentation day for East and West London Class. Students presented their presentations on their chosen topics. Well done to Everyone and their hard work!! :)

Week 17 West and East London b1/b1+ PowerPoint Presentations

Students this week were busy getting their PowerPoint presentations ready to go with their speaking presentation. Some students had not used power point before so was very good for them to get some experience with the help of the teacher on how to make a presentation with power point. 

Good job guys!!!

Week 17 West London B1+ individual mind maps on requests

Students in west London made their individual mind maps and chose one that they thought was the best all round effort. Well done everyone for your creative work.

Students chose 8 things their friends ask them to do for them and had to May a mind map of how they would ask the request and how they would answer it. 

Week 16 b1 East London: Job Interview

Students this week discussed job descriptions and employment questionnaires and to follow on had to write a job interview between a company owner and a job candidate. 

Students had to include questions and answers on salary education history employment history working hours and all questions they know companies would ask.

Week 16 West London b1+ Careers mind map

Week 16 West London b1+ Careers mind map

Students in west London class were busy making their mind maps on careers.  Students chose in their opinions the most in demand jobs. Then had to add descriptions and pros and cons for each career. 

East London Week 15 B1 Historical Events

Students in East London class did presentations on historical events and people that changed the world we live in today. Students spoke about the first cell phone the moon landing the man who made the first radio and more. 

Week 15 East London b1 Consequences

Students discussed and wrote positive and negative consequences to certain actions. 

For example if Stuart spent all his savings on a computer what would the consequences be?? Good and bad??

Students enjoyed the discussions of different actions. 

Week 15 West London B1+ Information gap crossword

Students in west London class were given information gap crosswords. One student had the answers for words going across and one student had the answers for words going down. 

Students had clues for each other to help them get the missing personalities in their crosswords and they had to help each other figure them out by describing it or doing actions or naming people who are like that personality in the classroom. 

Students enjoyed it as some had not done crosswords before.

Week 13 West London B1 Acting the gestures

Students in west London class were learning different gestures used all over the world. Students were put into groups of 4 with one student not allowed to speak and doing the gestures. The rest of the group had to say exactly the right meaning as the gesture. Then writing using modals and adverbs what their group member was gesturing. 

Example statements :

I think he may/might be saying hello 

or 

he is probably/could be telling us to be quiet. 

Week 13 East London A2+ Technology Poster

Students in East London class were told to make posters of one type of technology they discussed in class and draw or print a picture of it and label all its parts. Once labelled all parts needed to have a description of how you use it. 

Week 13 East London A2+ mind maps of topics

Students did mind maps of their chosen topics for their presentations in week 17. Students had to think of the topics they will talk about during their presentation and what pictures they will need for each part of the presentation.

Week 13 West London B1 that's what it means!! Emoticons

Students in west London class discussed what gestures signs and emoticons are.

They were then given a sheet of different emoticons. Students in groups had to chose 10 emoticons and describe their meaning and when they would use each one. 

Week 13 East London technology and its uses

Students listed different types of technology they use regularly today. They then had to write two different uses for each technology.

Week 12 West London B1 making excuses peer dictation

Students were put into groups of four. Each student was given a short conversation about an invitation and excuses. Each student read out their conversation while the rest wrote it all down. After each conversation was completed they had to read it and answer the following three questions: