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Associated Teachers’ TV programme
Teaching with Bayley: Points Mean Prizes
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(man) People, people, people!
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(woman) So listen and pay attention.
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(man) You're looking for capitals.
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(narrator) John Bayley has
an early-morning appointment
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with Mirella Rios...
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- Warm enough for you?
- Not really, no. Not like in Spain.
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(narrator) ..winner of a 2005
Outstanding New Teacher award.
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Mirella and her boyfriend Richard
are teachers at HoveParkSchool,
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a Brighton comprehensive.
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My day is between eight till six -
that's working.
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And then get home
around six thirty, seven.
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So how long is that? Ten hours?
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That's a long time, actually,
thinking about it.
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First lesson.
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(narrator) HovePark is
a specialist language college,
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and Mirella has taught
Spanish and German here
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for the last three and a half years.
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What do you have to say when I ask
a question? You have to give your...
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- (boy) Reasons.
- You have to give your reasons. OK?
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(narrator) First lesson today
is with her year 11s.
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En espanol? Por que.
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You all have an envelope here, yes?
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Everyone?
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Look at this. "Es muy facil."
"Hay variedad." "Es bien pagado."
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In your envelopes you've got
the same sentences in English.
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I want you to arrange them on your
table the same way they're there.
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(on monitor:
recites phrases in Spanish)
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My aims for this lesson were to
teach them how to give opinions
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about a job that they can do
in the future
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and then to talk about what they
would like to do after their GCSEs
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and the summer holidays.
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"There's a variety." Yes.
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(Mirella) It's like a puzzle.
You use your hands, your brain.
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It's a bit like...
kind of aesthetic. Interactive.
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They can touch things. It's not just
writing. They can use their hands.
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It's more interesting than just
writing things down all the time.
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They just concentrate
on the actual language.
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"Hay variedad." Zoe.
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(narrator) She checks their
understanding of the key phrases.
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"Es bien pagado." Joe.
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- It's well-paid.
- It's well-paid. Muy bien.
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As they're going along,
you're putting points on the board.
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What's that all about?
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If they give me a right answer,
they get a point.
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I keep adding them up
to the end of each half-term,
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and then, whatever team wins,
they get a prize.
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It can be chocolate or sweets
or anything. Anything they like.
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- This is year 11?
- This is year 11.
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- They still go for it?
- Yeah.
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OK, you've got to guess now
the three reasons why I do my job.
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Me gusta mucho trabajar en equipo.
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No me gusta
trabajar con equipo. No.
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What I always think of
when I plan a lesson is two things.
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First of all:
What's the purpose of the activity?
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If there's not a purpose to it,
why are we doing it?
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Sometimes you have to think:
Maybe the purpose is to win a point.
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"Me permite hablar
lenguas modernas."
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Muy bien. Muy bien. Vale...
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If it makes them say
and write and listen
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to what you want them
to say, write or listen,
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then it works.
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- How many chances should I have?
- (boy) Two.
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What?! How am I gonna guess
three in two? Es imposible!
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Uno, dos, tres,
cuatro, cinco, seis,
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siete, ocho, nueve, diez,
once, doce, trece.
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Trece.
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Ocho?
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- Siete.
- Siete.
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When I go out, someone will write
them down, and I'm gonna come back.
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Yeah? Ready?
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I've never seen a teacher set people
a task and leave the room.
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- No?
- No. Why did you do that?
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So that they can actually
be their own bosses.
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So they take control
of the situation.
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It's good, I think,
to give pupils control of the lesson
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for a little bit.
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Vale...
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(narrator) The class
have chosen three reasons
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why they think
Mirella likes being a teacher.
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Mirella has seven lives
to guess them.
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"Me gusta tratar con el publico."
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Si? Ooh!
You're gonna get homework, guys.
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If they won, they got no homework.
If I won, they got homework.
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Which was a lie because they weren't
gonna get homework anyway that day.
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Daniel.
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(narrator)
New learning objective, new game.
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For in Mirella's class
you're never too old to play.
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Que vas a hacer
despues de los examenes?
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Que vas a hacer...
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(John) Why do you throw the ball?
Is it partly distraction?
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Because they know something's
coming, they all pay attention
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to when it's their turn.
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If you don't have anything to throw,
they're just like...
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Then you call their names
and they look at you.
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But the embarrassment
of dropping the ball
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makes them be attentive to you
because you know the ball's coming.
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You've got to listen to the question
and pick up the ball
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and find an answer
and throw it back.
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- ..continuo con mis estudios.
- Muy bien.
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Oh!
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That larger-than-life stuff
is great.
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- That is my personality.
- But it's good.
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I'm very expressive.
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- Do you feel good watching it?
- Yeah! I thought I'd feel horrible.
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Vale, chicos. La silla.
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Adios. Adios.
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Now I have to commute quickly,
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so I don't have time
to think about anything.
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I just go like a machine.
One after the other.
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(narrator) With a split site,
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Mirella often
spends her break times commuting.
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- You'll do this again today?
- Yeah.
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I have to come twice on Wednesdays.
Wednesday Bs.
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What's it like
working on a split site?
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It's hard.
You have to be more organised
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than if you work in just one site,
because...
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(narrator) She teaches
a year 7 class at lower school,
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conducts an oral exam,
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and then shuttles back
to upper school again.
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It's the last double lesson
of the day, with year 10.
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- Maxine?
- Hola.
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- Valentine?
- Hola.
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- Becky.
- Hola.
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- Muy bien.
- Are we revising again?
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OK, yes. Emma said it.
Are we revising again?
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Yes, we are, because...
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(narrator) But revision Mirella-
style is far from conventional.
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The game's like this:
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You have an envelope. I'll play
some music. I'll close my eyes.
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(narrator) In the envelope are the
ten subject headings to be revised.
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When the music stops,
whoever has the envelope
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has five seconds
to say a sentence in Spanish.
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- (children chattering)
- Tres, dos, uno...
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(Latin-beat music plays)
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- (music stops)
- Oh!
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Miss, no.
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- Oh, my God!
- Pass it on if you want.
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- No, no, no. That's not fair.
- She can do it.
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Oh! I know this one.
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"Prefiero ciudad... um...
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porque es... verde."
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- Muy bien!
- (class clapping)
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Leave the piece of paper out,
please. And we continue.
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Shh! No arguments!
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(music starts)
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I'm a bit crazy, you know.
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"No arguments."
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(music starts)
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(music stops)
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Cinco.
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"En Southampton..."
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- (boy) She's reading off the sheet.
- She said we could do that.
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- "..autocares..."
- Vale, vale, vale.
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(John)
That's a really exciting game,
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and it's got everything.
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It makes me feel like
I'm at a family party or something.
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Here's "pass the parcel". You're
being their mum or their big sister.
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You're being very jolly.
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The theory is,
they're drinking in the language.
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I think the hardest thing
for a pupil to do in languages
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is to actually speak,
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because it's difficult to speak
in a foreign language.
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Normally, if you ask them a question
with no challenge whatsoever,
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they take ages to do it, and they
won't even make the effort anyway.
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But in this case, you have
the challenge of the five seconds,
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and the reward of
getting points if you do it right,
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and the music,
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and the envelopes coming -
and you know it's gonna come to you
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and you have to get ready.
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- "Antes vivo en Hove tambien."
- Muy bien, Emma! Fantastico!
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We'll have a five-minute break now.
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You can relax.
You've done lots of work. OK?
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I think, for 15-year-old students,
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they need a break so they get
refreshed, then back to the lesson.
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It's quite rare
to see teachers doing it.
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I think maybe it's because...
it may be because of control issues.
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And also, some people think: You've
got to get through the curriculum.
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You waste five minutes...
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I think if you don't give them
a break for five minutes,
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you'll waste the last ten minutes.
They'll be too tired to do anything.
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Please, in lines.
This line, this line, this line...
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(narrator) First up after break,
a writing game.
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Silence! Silencio!
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Uno, ya.
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The bad thing is that it's dirty.
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(John) Explain the structure
of this game carefully.
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I want to go away and find
some children to play it with.
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(Mirella) It's complicated.
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I had eight sentences,
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and each group
had a mini whiteboard.
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So one person from each group had to
come up, read sentence number one,
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come back to the group,
tell them what it was in English,
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so all together had to decide
how you say that in Spanish,
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show it to me.
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If it was correct, they got a tick
and could move on to number two.
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If it was incorrect,
they had to keep trying.
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- Oh! There's something wrong.
- (several) Miss! Miss!
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There's something missing.
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I didn't tell them what was wrong.
I said it's wrong. Why is it wrong?
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They looked. "Oh, the feminine is
missing" or it's masculine or plural
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or we have a verb missing -
whatever it was.
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So they're thrown onto their own
resources and having to hunt...
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- Exactly.
- ..and to self-correct.
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Self-correcting, I think,
is a really powerful thing.
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- Yes?
- Whoo! Go, Graham, go!
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(girl) Miss?
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That's right.
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Yes!
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(pupils shout enthusiastically)
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- Yes!
- (Mirella) OK, stop, stop, stop.
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Give me ten!
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- (pupils whooping)
- Fantastico!
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Shh!
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Silencio.
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(pupils fall silent)
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I have to say well done to all of
you. You've done fantastically well.
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But... there's a winner,
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which was was part of B.
That means B get... diez puntos.
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- (whooping)
- OK!
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That was a good lesson.
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I hope you know now a bit better.
We're gonna play one more thing now.
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(narrator)
Reaffirming their learning
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by refreshing the activities,
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Mirella introduces the last game.
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We're gonna play the star game...
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(narrator) There are 16 cards,
11 with questions,
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three with stars and two with zeros.
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- Catorce.
- Catorce...
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A correct question earns two points.
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How do you say,
"Before I lived in Leeds"?
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- Antes vivia en Leeds.
- Muy bien.
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If they get the star,
they get three points, no question.
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But if they get the zero, you get
10 points off your total of the day.
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- Dieciseis.
- Dieciseis.
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(John) This is Russian roulette,
Spanish-style.
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(pupils squeal)
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Tres.
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(girl) It's good.
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- It's good. No, it's good.
- (boy) No.
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- (girl) She's bluffing.
- Oh, my God, no!
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- She's bluffing.
- She's evil!
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I try to adapt games to the textbook
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so I don't have to
start from scratch.
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So with one slide
from the PowerPoint
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and one page from the textbook,
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I had a one hour
and 40 minute lesson,
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because I used different activities.
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Tiring.
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And the worst thing is,
we have to stay here till six
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to prepare my lessons for tomorrow.
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Each lesson is different
and each topic is different.
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Each class is different.
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But I would try to have
clear objectives, as you say -
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this is what we'll do,
this is what we'll achieve -
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and then try to build
everything around it
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and try to make it challenging,
interesting, innovative, motivating.
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Active.
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Congratulations.
Someone should give you a prize.
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Thank you. I got one already.
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Visiontext Subtitles:
Doreen Trenerry
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