Week 4 Teaching Spanish

This week my students had to take the Terra Nova exams which are Catholic school exams. What I've been doing is saying certain phrases to them during the day and seeing if they understand. Then I say it slower and dissect the words for them, and see how much they understand. I have to say only 2 students really understood. Tomorrow I will be handing them worksheets with introductions, and greetings. I've been showing them videos in Spanish as well and so they can see and hear it in another form. I might not be able to do much tomorrow because my students still have the Terra Nova's and half a day.

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