The clips are now uploaded on Youtube:
pik, sevcan, alejandra:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWz0D2Z2M1c
badi, jack, nabil:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I29Pq1isXaA
pui, james, denise:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhyZQ5vHwtc
Hopefully the students will share them and insert them on their own pages.
The group has now fragmented with 5 of the 4 involved leaving, so this project has come to an end.
I think we achieved a lot in a couple of weeks. I hope the individuals involved build on what they learnt from the process..
Friday, 25 September 2009
Monday, 21 September 2009
making a film
Friday 18 Sept, 2009
Regency College
Present: Andy, Badhi, Denise, Nabil, Sevcan, Pui, Alejandra, Peek, James, Jack
Regency College
Present: Andy, Badhi, Denise, Nabil, Sevcan, Pui, Alejandra, Peek, James, Jack
Students used a framework to write a guided narrative based on their experiences and interviews in the pub. They rehearsed reading this, then had 3 takes to record it into imovie. I collected their photos into folders in iphoto. Unfortunately the photos on the whole were not very good quality in terms of content and technique. I suggested that students took some more pictures to illustrate their narrations, but they were reluctant to do so.
Over the weekend I assembled their photos as an animated slide show, and laid this down over their audio recording. This was extremely time-consuming, principally due to the lack of useful images.
I have output the finished pieces as video clips, ready to be written to DVD or uploaded to Facebook or Youtube.
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
the survey and feedback
Monday 14 Sept, 2009
Regency College
Present: Andy, Badhi, Denise, Nabil, Sevcan, Pui, Alejandra, Peek, James, Jack
Badhi's group went to the Brunswick, Sevcan's to the Freemason's, Denise's to the Wick.
Each group spent around 90 minutes there, and interviewed staff, customers, as well as taking pictures.
Each conversation took around 5 minutes, people in the pub did not want to see the letter of introduction from the school, or want to follow up the project.
Students returned to school full of energy and excitement and exchanged their experiences of new drinks, people, and places.
I have asked them to complete a feedback questionnaire: these are the results:
Debriefing
Feeling
1. How did you feel when you went in the pub?
shy, excited, good, afraid, embarrassed, worried
2. How did you feel when you spoke with people there?
great, good, ok, relaxed, worried about my english, not nervous, good
3. How did you feel at the end of the visit?
interested, good experience, good, happy, surprised, good cos we understood
What happened?
4. Who did you speak to first?
barman/barwoman
5. Did they understand who you were and why you were there?
yes
6. Was the barman helpful?
yes, really helpful
7. Was he busy when you wanted to talk to him?
no
8. How many customers did you speak to?
1, 2
9. Were they friendly?
yes, yes absolutely, they smiled
10. Did you work alone or with the others in your group?
together
11. Did anybody ask you any questions about you and your life?
yes, no
Communication
12. Did you understand them?
yes 90%, yes, yes but not every word, yes very difficult
13. Did they understand you?
yes100%, yes i think so, yes
Research
14. Did you get answers to all your questions?
yes
15. Were you surprised by any of the answers?
yes, no, yes jack was
16. Did you find out about things that you didn’t intend to research?
yes, no
17. What did you take photos of?
everywhere in pub, staff, rooms, customer, building, toilets
Feedback
18. What do you think you learnt today? About the pub, about people, about yourself...
It's possible to make friends, it's possible to talk to other people, about the pub, that the pub is good, that some people are friendly, some unfriendly, i felt relaxed, good that it's not the same as in class, nice place, friendly people, i want to go to the pub someday, we can learn something else from in class
19. What did you practise?
speaking and listening, understanding, made me brave for speaking with others, grammar, pronunciation
20. Was it a useful activity? Why?
yes, yes for meeting people, made me more confident, yes because i feel good, yes because you can use everything, we can talk and enjoy, yes because speak with others
21. Would you like to do more projects like this?
yes, yes but once per month, id love to
22. Did you enjoy it?
yes, enjoyable, yes i loved it
Regency College
Present: Andy, Badhi, Denise, Nabil, Sevcan, Pui, Alejandra, Peek, James, Jack
Badhi's group went to the Brunswick, Sevcan's to the Freemason's, Denise's to the Wick.
Each group spent around 90 minutes there, and interviewed staff, customers, as well as taking pictures.
Each conversation took around 5 minutes, people in the pub did not want to see the letter of introduction from the school, or want to follow up the project.
Students returned to school full of energy and excitement and exchanged their experiences of new drinks, people, and places.
I have asked them to complete a feedback questionnaire: these are the results:
Debriefing
Feeling
1. How did you feel when you went in the pub?
shy, excited, good, afraid, embarrassed, worried
2. How did you feel when you spoke with people there?
great, good, ok, relaxed, worried about my english, not nervous, good
3. How did you feel at the end of the visit?
interested, good experience, good, happy, surprised, good cos we understood
What happened?
4. Who did you speak to first?
barman/barwoman
5. Did they understand who you were and why you were there?
yes
6. Was the barman helpful?
yes, really helpful
7. Was he busy when you wanted to talk to him?
no
8. How many customers did you speak to?
1, 2
9. Were they friendly?
yes, yes absolutely, they smiled
10. Did you work alone or with the others in your group?
together
11. Did anybody ask you any questions about you and your life?
yes, no
Communication
12. Did you understand them?
yes 90%, yes, yes but not every word, yes very difficult
13. Did they understand you?
yes100%, yes i think so, yes
Research
14. Did you get answers to all your questions?
yes
15. Were you surprised by any of the answers?
yes, no, yes jack was
16. Did you find out about things that you didn’t intend to research?
yes, no
17. What did you take photos of?
everywhere in pub, staff, rooms, customer, building, toilets
Feedback
18. What do you think you learnt today? About the pub, about people, about yourself...
It's possible to make friends, it's possible to talk to other people, about the pub, that the pub is good, that some people are friendly, some unfriendly, i felt relaxed, good that it's not the same as in class, nice place, friendly people, i want to go to the pub someday, we can learn something else from in class
19. What did you practise?
speaking and listening, understanding, made me brave for speaking with others, grammar, pronunciation
20. Was it a useful activity? Why?
yes, yes for meeting people, made me more confident, yes because i feel good, yes because you can use everything, we can talk and enjoy, yes because speak with others
21. Would you like to do more projects like this?
yes, yes but once per month, id love to
22. Did you enjoy it?
yes, enjoyable, yes i loved it
Monday, 14 September 2009
phrase book and questionnaire
Monday 14 Sept, 2009
Regency College
Present: Andy, Badhi, Denise, Nabil, Sevcan, Pui, Alejandra
Today we created a phrase book for the students to use to engage with and facilitate conversations with native speakers:
Useful Phrases for talking to a native speaker
Looking for a particular person
Excuse me. Can you help me. my name is...... I'm looking for John.
You don't understand:
Repeating
Could/can you repeat that please?
Could you say that again?
Too fast
Can you speak more slowly, please?
Write it
Can you write it down, please?
Your English isn't good
Sorry but my English is quite bad.
Checking
So........is that right?
Changing subject
Sorry I can't really understand, shall we move on?
Showing interest
Wow
Really
Cool
Right
That's interesting
Oh dear!
Taking photo
Excuse me. Would you mind if I took your photo?
Would it be OK to take a photo of.....?
Thanking
Thank you very much for your help/your time?
Introducing yourself
Excuse me. Have you got a few minutes? My name is X and im studying English at Regency College and I'm from .........we are doing a project about British culture and pubs. Would it be possible to ask you a few questions?
Showing interest
wow
that's interesting
cool
amazing
right
really?
oh dear!
Students have now printed out their questionnaires and are now ready for the interviews on Tuesday
Group update: Alejandra has joined Sevcan and Peek's group
Regency College
Present: Andy, Badhi, Denise, Nabil, Sevcan, Pui, Alejandra
Today we created a phrase book for the students to use to engage with and facilitate conversations with native speakers:
Useful Phrases for talking to a native speaker
Looking for a particular person
Excuse me. Can you help me. my name is...... I'm looking for John.
You don't understand:
Repeating
Could/can you repeat that please?
Could you say that again?
Too fast
Can you speak more slowly, please?
Write it
Can you write it down, please?
Your English isn't good
Sorry but my English is quite bad.
Checking
So........is that right?
Changing subject
Sorry I can't really understand, shall we move on?
Showing interest
Wow
Really
Cool
Right
That's interesting
Oh dear!
Taking photo
Excuse me. Would you mind if I took your photo?
Would it be OK to take a photo of.....?
Thanking
Thank you very much for your help/your time?
Introducing yourself
Excuse me. Have you got a few minutes? My name is X and im studying English at Regency College and I'm from .........we are doing a project about British culture and pubs. Would it be possible to ask you a few questions?
Showing interest
wow
that's interesting
cool
amazing
right
really?
oh dear!
Students have now printed out their questionnaires and are now ready for the interviews on Tuesday
Group update: Alejandra has joined Sevcan and Peek's group
Sunday, 13 September 2009
working towards the interview
Friday 11 Sept, 2009
Regency College
Present: Andy, Jack, Badhi, Peek, Denise, King, James, Nabil, Sevcan
The 3 groups looked together at their questions and reduced a combined 30 to 10: 5 to ask a barman, 5 to ask a customer.
The questions have been checked for grammar errors, and have been reworded to make them less direct.
The interviews will go ahead on Tuesday 15 Sept. King will be on holiday: the revised teams are
1, Badhi, Jack, Nabil
2, Sevcan, Peek
3, Denise, James, Pui
Regency College
Present: Andy, Jack, Badhi, Peek, Denise, King, James, Nabil, Sevcan
The 3 groups looked together at their questions and reduced a combined 30 to 10: 5 to ask a barman, 5 to ask a customer.
The questions have been checked for grammar errors, and have been reworded to make them less direct.
The interviews will go ahead on Tuesday 15 Sept. King will be on holiday: the revised teams are
1, Badhi, Jack, Nabil
2, Sevcan, Peek
3, Denise, James, Pui
Friday, 11 September 2009
Lay of the Land
I went out Thursday pm to see how the pubs landlords and staff felt about the proposed student visit. First stop was the Farm - which is shut until 5pm - off the list and glad I checked it out.
I spoke to Paul at the Freemasons, Jonathon at the Wick and Andy and Lauren at the Brunswick. They were all really positive and said the students would be more than welcome to come in. What suprised me was the level of interest in the project, understanding of the difficulties foreign students may have in interfacing with British pub culture. Jonathon had had a relationship with the Deaf school in a previous pub and offered to arrange a presentation! He's also going to drop in a bunch of flyers to the school!
In conclusion - all aok, good to go!
I spoke to Paul at the Freemasons, Jonathon at the Wick and Andy and Lauren at the Brunswick. They were all really positive and said the students would be more than welcome to come in. What suprised me was the level of interest in the project, understanding of the difficulties foreign students may have in interfacing with British pub culture. Jonathon had had a relationship with the Deaf school in a previous pub and offered to arrange a presentation! He's also going to drop in a bunch of flyers to the school!
In conclusion - all aok, good to go!
Wednesday, 9 September 2009
research groups
Wednesday 9 Sept, 2009
Regency College
Present: Andy, Jack, Badhi, Huseyn, Peek, Pui, Denise, King, James, Nabil, Sevcan
This week the class has worked on:
Monday rehearsing and scripting generic conversations, and reading them clearly with natural intonation. We have also looked at writing follow-up questions and using reaction words such as; really?, cool, wow, oh dear. we discussed body language and raised cultural awareness, emphasising mis-understandings between nationalities.
Tuesday: rules, customs, advice using must, should etc. Homework was a piece of writing describing customs in students' own countries. Reading on festivals around the world.
Wednesday: student research (internet) and presentation using photos on a festival from their country.
Preparation for research project on pubs
We have discussed areas to be researched and split the class into 3 work groups.
Research will be carried out on location in a pub by interviews, observation, photography, personal experiences.
Group 1 (Jack, Badhi, Nabil) will research: special evenings, rules, decoration, typical customer, behaviour in the pub.
Group 2 (King, Sevcan, Peek) will research: drinks, rules, location, typical customer, behaviour in the pub.
Group 3 (Pui, James, Huseyn) will research: drinks, rules, entertainment, opening times, location.
Denise will join group 3 and Alejandra 1 or 2
Students have been asked to each draft 5 questions to ask a pub customer and 5 to ask a bar-person. the group members will select 10 questions from a pool of 30 to use as a basis for an interview on location in a pub.
Regency College
Present: Andy, Jack, Badhi, Huseyn, Peek, Pui, Denise, King, James, Nabil, Sevcan
This week the class has worked on:
Monday rehearsing and scripting generic conversations, and reading them clearly with natural intonation. We have also looked at writing follow-up questions and using reaction words such as; really?, cool, wow, oh dear. we discussed body language and raised cultural awareness, emphasising mis-understandings between nationalities.
Tuesday: rules, customs, advice using must, should etc. Homework was a piece of writing describing customs in students' own countries. Reading on festivals around the world.
Wednesday: student research (internet) and presentation using photos on a festival from their country.
Preparation for research project on pubs
We have discussed areas to be researched and split the class into 3 work groups.
Research will be carried out on location in a pub by interviews, observation, photography, personal experiences.
Group 1 (Jack, Badhi, Nabil) will research: special evenings, rules, decoration, typical customer, behaviour in the pub.
Group 2 (King, Sevcan, Peek) will research: drinks, rules, location, typical customer, behaviour in the pub.
Group 3 (Pui, James, Huseyn) will research: drinks, rules, entertainment, opening times, location.
Denise will join group 3 and Alejandra 1 or 2
Students have been asked to each draft 5 questions to ask a pub customer and 5 to ask a bar-person. the group members will select 10 questions from a pool of 30 to use as a basis for an interview on location in a pub.
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