Has it done already?
This Saturday James
asked us to go to Asiatique with him. At 1.30 PM we went to the nearest bus
stop and took the bus to BTS Mochit near Chatuchak Market. There, we bought the
sky train ticket. We have to pay using coin money, so we change our money into
coins to get the ticket. It took about an hour to get to the last stop. The
train was the sky train type, like MRT in Singapore but not underground. So, we
could see the cityscape from the train.
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| Waiting for the train |
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| Waiting for the train |
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| At the port |
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| The view from the boat |
At 3.30 PM we arrived
at the port, there we have to wait 30 minutes to get the free ticket. So, we
decided to take some photos at the port. Finally the boat came and there were
so many passengers who waited for the free boat. Along the river, we were
amazed by the view that there were many café, resort, and tall building in the
river side. Ten minutes later we arrived at Asiatique. The place were amazing, it’s
a large open-air mall in Chao Phraya River side. There were many cafes and
stores that sold food, clothes, and also souvenirs from Thailand. There was a
big ferris wheel too and you need to pay 200 baht to ride it.
To get a free boat back
to the port, we need to go back at 7PM. Fortunately, we could made it before we
have dinner near the mosque behind Asiatique. The food was halal so we didn’t
need to worry about anything.
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| Cooking class |
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| Cooking class |
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| Cooking class |
In the next day, we
need to go to CTE building around 10AM to have a cooking class with Ajarn
Suwan. He showed and told us how to make Somtam (papaya salad). He prepared
many things for today’s agenda. First, he showed us the way to make it then he
asked us to make it by our own selves. The somtam itself tasted sour, but it
was not that bad although most of us couldn’t eat it because of the sourness.
Around 2.30 PM, Cocom,
Arma, Nanik, and I have to go back to the school. Fortunately, Lookpad
accompanied us together with Nina. Nina wanted to change her money and Arma
too, so Lookpad accompanied them. First, we have to stop at Rangsit market,
Lookpad, Arma and Nina then went to Future Park Mall to change the money. They
walked to the mall and it took a long time because the bus stop and the mall
was very far.
At 5PM they come back
from the mall and they were so exhausted. Then, four of us directly rode the
bus who went to Pathumthani. It took about 45 minutes to get there. We stopped
at Tesco Lotus Pathumthani to take the taxi. At 6.50PM we arrived at the dorm
and paid around 80 baht for the taxi. Unfortunately, the dorm we used to live
already closed. The dorm was for M.6 students and they were home because they
would have the exam next week so there were no students in the dorm. We need to
wait around 30 minutes outside the dorm with so many mosquitos to enter the
dorm. Finally, a teacher opened the dorm and gave us the dorm key so we
wouldn’t get locked again.
On Monday, we were told
by Teacher Preaw that we would have the evaluation on this week. Tomorrow I
would get evaluated by her, in the next day Cocom would get evaluated by
Teacher Palin, and on Thursday Arma would get evaluated by Teacher El.
Moreover, she also told us that the material for the evaluation was
problem-solution essay. So, today we planned to give the students the theory of
problem solution essay because they only have one period on Monday.
Teacher Preaw gave us
the material in PPT form, the handout, and the essay example. We could change
those in our own styles. So for today, we taught five class which were M.5/1,
M.5/2, N.5/4, M.5/5, and M.5/6. Each of them have one period and we taught them
about problem-solution essay.
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| Evaluation session |
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| Evaluation session |
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| My lesson plan |
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| My lesson plan |
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| My lesson plan |
In the next day, I have
my evaluation on the first period in M.5/1. I taught problem-solution essay
using PPP (Presentation, Practice, and Production) technique. First, I asked
students’ understanding about problem-solution essay, because in the last
meeting we already talked about this material. After that, I did a little
overview to check their comprehension. After that, I gave them the handout.
There were two kinds of exercises in it, but first I asked them to do scanning
on the essay text and found out the problem and solution on the text. Then, I
asked the students to read problem and solution they found. In the production,
I make a group of six, which consisted of four students for every group. I gave
them different topics for each groups and asked them to discuss the topics
within the groups. After that, the students have to make essay outline
according to their topics. In the outline already written part of the essay,
such as title, thesis, problem, solution, and conclusion. At the end of the
lesson, all of the groups could finish the outline.
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| Students' work on essay outline |
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| Students' work on essay outline |
After I finished the
evaluation, Teacher Preaw gave me some comments and suggestions. When I asked
the students to read the essay, she said that I’d better to give them time
limitation so that it would not be too long and moreover she said I did a good
job.
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| Cocom's evaluation class |
On Wednesday, Cocom
would get evaluated on the third period by Teacher Palin in M.5/2. Arma and I
would be her teaching assistant. Her evaluation done well too, the students
could finished did their essay outline.
In the next day, when
we went out from the dorm, we saw students of M.5 went out from the school
using school bus. Meanwhile today was Arma’s turn to get evaluated in M.5/4.
So, we asked Teacher Preaw where they were going. She said that she forgot to
tell us that for the next two days, students of M.5 would no longer in the
school because of the science project. We were surprised by that fact, especially
Arma. So, after discussed with Teacher El, Teacher Preaw said that Arma would
be evaluated tomorrow in M.2 along with the supervisors’ evaluation. So,
tomorrow we would do the team teaching in M.2, but Teacher El would only
evaluated Arma and Ajarn Pichy and Ajarn Som would evaluated all of us.
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| The material for the evaluation |
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| The material for the evaluation |
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Lesson plan of M.2
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Teacher El gave us the
material and the lesson plan for M.2. The material was about passive voice. So
for the whole day we discussed how to teach the students because we didn’t know
the characteristics of students in M.2.
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| Teacher El, Ajarn Pichy, and Ajarn Som evaluated us |
On Friday, we got
evaluated on sixth period. There were Ajarn Pichy, Ajarn Som, Teacher El,
Teacher Preaw, and Teacher Mey in the class. In this time, we use PPP as the
teaching technique. First, we showed them some videos related to the topic. After
that, we asked them what passive voice was. Then, we played the videos again
and asked them one sentence that the remembered from the video. Next, I asked
some students to come in front of the class to arrange the sentence. The first
sentence they made was in active, so I asked them to change it into passive
voice.
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| Evaluation was held in M.2 |
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| The students discussed the game questions |
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| Students got ready for the game |
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| Students paid attention on the sea teachers |
After that, we gave
them a brief explanation about passive voice, surprisingly most of the students
already understood about the topic so we didn’t get many difficulties in
teaching them. Later, some exercises were given to them. The exercises were to
change the active into the passive form. All students could finish it.
Afterwards we made some games, we divided the class into three groups. Then, we
gave the students six sentences in active form and asked them to change it into
passive voice. The students have to write the passive voice on the board in
order. So, one students could only write one word and they did it one by one.
The groups would compete each other and the fastest and got the most correct
answer would be the winner. After the games done, we found out that the third
group was the winner, the group consisted of all girls. When the class ended,
we asked students’ first impression toward us.
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| School facility |
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| School facility |
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| School facility |
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| School facility |
After the evaluation
done, Ajarn Pichy come to us and said that we did a good job. However, there
were some points that need to be fixed. For example, when we played the videos
it’s better to tell the students to pay attention on some point so that we
didn’t to play it twice. Moreover, because it was the first time we did the
team teaching, she said that we might have some miscommunication and miss
coordination toward each other. Moreover, she said that next week we need to go
back to the school again, however what we knew was today’s the last day. She
added that we already did the evaluation and we didn’t need to go back to the
school, so she said that she would discuss this thing with the other
supervisors.
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| School facility |
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| School facility |
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| School facility |
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| School facility |
Ajarn Preaw said that
the van driver had another appointment today, so he couldn’t bring us back to
the dorm. Then, she offer us to go back to Bangkok together with her and the
other foreign teachers who were going to Bangkok to by taxi. Because the school
was very far away from the city, so we have to pay more to call the taxi. We paid
for 200 baht to get to the bus stop. After that, we took the bus to go to
Rangsit and go to another bus to the campus. Today, we spent a lot of money
just to go back to the campus.
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