I did this task with my boyfriend today. I tried to explain to him be going to + base form for future plans.
I wrote on the board two sentences that were given and I asked him to read them and then to tell me what similarities he sees between both sentences. He saw that in both there was “going to” and I tried to guide him a little bit saying “okay, what else? maybe something before or after?”. He noticed that both sentences had also time mentioned and quite fast understood the function of the sentence.
I let him tell me what is the structure of the sentence and wrote it down on the board. Then he told be about the function and I wrote it again on the board. I started CCQs giving him right or wrong structured sentences. Then I ask him to give me two examples more. I almost forgot the Drilling part so I did it at the end rereading the sentences we were working on. He understood when we’re using the “be going to” form and I hope he will use it in his future conversations.
I really liked this practice task it will definitely help me with my future lessons – especially with explaining the grammar to students in a better and clearer way without giving them too much information and letting them think.

It was really great to work on this task with you guys, I feel like we were able to exchange a lot on the ways how to correct students and what was the best for each situation. I also appreciated that we tried to see why students could have done an error and how their languages took a part in it. It was interesting to see how we all percive some sentences differently based on our languages. We used a lot of error corrections, the favourite one was probably with use of fingers, we did a lot of eliciting as well.
It was a very good call, I feel like we all have learnt something from each other.
I think that I should definetly repeat some grammar points to feel more confident in error correcting!

Hi everyone! I would like to teach the 4th grammar point – Be going to + base form for future plans 🙂

For the “Teach Me Anything” task I have decided to teach my boyfriend how to make pancakes.
Before I prepared a glass of flour, a glass of milk, a half a glass of water, 2 eggs, some salt, a bottle of sunflower oil, a large bowl, a spatula, a large pan and a wooden spoon.
I let him do everything following my instructions. I told him step by step what ingredients to put in the bowl and to stir with the wooden spoon until the texture becomes smooth, without any lumps. After that I told him to put the pan on the induction, put the heat on medium and wait 2-3 minutes for the pan to heat up.
In the meantime I realised that I forgot to prepare the ladle to pour the dough on the pan. I explained to him that we need to add a little bit of the sunflower on the pan and move it in circles so the oil would cover the whole surface (I tried to mime it). Then I decided to show him how to make a perfect pancake. I poured some dough on the pan and showed him how to move the pan so the dough could form a pancake. Then I told him to take a spatula, wait 1 minute and turn the pancake on the other side. After that it was his turn to do it. He followed the previous instructions and finished all the pancakes.
It was a very fun exercise to do, we got to spend a really good time together. It was also my first time telling someone how to cook because usually I prefer to do it myself so it was nice to change the roles.
After I thought that I could have probably given him the ingredients in their original packaging, explained to him how much of each ingredient we needed and let him do the measurements. Also I didn’t think to prepare every tool (the ladle and the plate where he put the cooked pancakes).
But overall I really liked the exercise and the pancakes were delicious so I think he did a pretty good job.

I feel like we did a really good job during the Zoom call. Thank you all for attending it! 🙂
After hearing your ideas I think I should work more on fluency and clarity of my instructions.

I really liked how structured your explanation of the grammar point was and how you thought about all the steps! Even the fact that you corrected your question shows that you put a lot of thought in everything you do for the tasks. Hats off! 🙂

I totally understand the part about not being sure about the mistake! I think it will come with time and practice. But I still feel like you were giving very good examples of correcting errors and you had great ideas.

Oh wow, what a great idea! Hopefully your husband’s neck pain dissapeared after it!
It seems like you gave really good instructions, step by step. I should come for your stretching lessons as well haha

Yes, that’s what I thought as well. I felt like we were just overthinking it too much sometimes! But it was definitely helpful to see points of view of everyone – it definitely helps with understanding how we perceive the excercises and what we can work on to better ourselves up.

I felt like you were really good at putting instructions in a short and clear way.