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English Study Group

    This is a project that I have participated in a while ago, the goal was to provide easy and accessible service to young learners who wished to improve their English. We have made use of online tools and applications.

Goal of the project: Our goal is to teach people between the ages of 15-20, and we will be teaching the people we know online.

Setting: Digital setting

Description of the participants: Between the ages of 15-20, 13 students, and Intermediate level.

Info about the type of Social Media/Website: We will be using an online app to meet with them.

Project start date:10.10.2022

Project ending date: 01.01.2023

The workload:

We will all contribute to planning the lessons as well as our individual parts.

Mahmut Furkan Koçak: He is creating videos, which we will be using as materials.

Sevcan Yiğit: She is handling the visual materials we are going to use.

Ulaş Erbil Arslan: He is creating and finding the worksheets for the students.

Fatih Ulutaş: He is handling technical aspects, the online tools that we are using.  

Expected results:

In what way you will make a difference in your community when this project is completed

     We carry out this project in order to help students catch up to their normal classes since the classroom structure in Turkey is really crowded and it is not possible for the teacher to help every single student, teach them that English is a tool of communication rather than just a subject through our classes in which the students will be active, inform them about important opportunities and such. 


Week 1 

     The first class was mostly focused on vocabulary, we used a mix of realia and pictures to teach about Weather and Emotions. While teaching, we also exposed them to the grammar structure and rules, however, the focus was the vocabulary. Since the intermediate level, we chose to spend the first week reviewing and assessing their knowledge.



We have used the worksheets below to teach them;


6.4.Weather and Emotions-1


Weather and Emotions-Wordwall


Emotions- Learning Apps


Week 2 

For the second week, we had a lesson that focused on listening. Here is the PowerPoint presentation we used;


Listening Activity


Week 3 - 4

We taught Passive voice using our worksheets, it took 2 weeks as we felt like it was not entirely understood by the students.


Make it Passive


The passive


Passive voice mixed sentences


Weeks 5 - 6 

We taught present and past perfect tenses for these weeks since this was the main grammar topic they were struggling with at their current level. We have used liveworksheets as well as our own teaching materials to teach.


Present Perfect review


LET'S PRACTISE THE PRESENT PERFECT TENSE!


Past perfect and simple past


Past simple vs past perfect


Week 7: Feedback only

As this session overlapped with the new years eve, so we only asked for feedback in written form.


Feedback


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