Language Cell: "do nows", games and addressing the big rocks

Discussion about Ronelle Lochner’s lesson that she presented last week - on advertising.

• The lesson started with a Do Now, which engaged students immediately and gave them something to do straight away.
• The group work format allowed all students to engage, even though not all had to share with the class.
• Groups were also allowed to discuss in Setswana if they wanted to and then share in English.

Amanda Goosen will present her lesson for observation on Thursday at 08.50-09.40.

• It will be an introductory lesson to Afrikaans idioms.
• Amanda will play a game whereby groups need to match the idioms to their meanings.
• The second part of the lesson will be on how to apply the idioms in everyday life.

The next lesson will be prepared and presented by Gala Makodi.
Thebe Morake will send his timetable to us as an invitation to observe him too.
We also spoke about the big rocks and how to target those within our lesson planning cells.