Revisando em um Carrossel

É possível revisar de maneira mais dinâmica? Logo abaixo está o relato de uma atividade de revisão diferente. Alunos do curso Upper Intermediate desenvolveram atividades diversas em forma de circuito ou carrossel. A cada 20 minutos, grupos de alunos mudavam de estação e de atividade. O objetivo da atividade foi possibilitar aos alunos a revisão de conteúdos vistos recentemente em sala de aula e praticarem tanto a escrita quando a conversação.

A professora descreve a atividade:


This week, I planned to revise content students have recently seen by organizing a revision lesson as a CAROUSSEL.




First of all, I selected 3 activities :

1. Students would complete a grammar revision sheet and then use the answer key to correct it.
2. Students would play a  game called "Four-in-a-row" from the book "Grammar games and activities"  where students have to  know the infinitive/past/past participle of verbs.
3. Students would choose from one of the topics provided in their own course book and write a dialogue discussing it using language to agree and disagree. Then, they would use my cell phone (Audioboo app) to record their dialogues. 

The 12 students were divided into 3 groups of four and I had them seating in different corners of the room. Students would have 20 mins to work with each activity. As a timer, I used the site ONLINE VIDEO CLOCK  where you set an alarm by selecting a video clip from youtube. Before the caroussel activity started I explained what students would do at each station and by the end of the class all of them would have covered the 3 activities. 

Impressions? 

I liked the way I was free to move from one group to another and help when I was needed. Students were totally involved in doing the tasks. Moving from the different stations kept a dynamic pace to the lesson. An important point is to organize activities which take a similar time to cover and also have an extra activity up your sleeve for fast-finishers (in our case, I had conversation cards ). Next class, I intend to play their recordings from audioboo and ask them what they thought about it.

Some of the recordings created in class by students: