Notes from sitting in on classes at Creative High School

NSS Starts 09-10
First lesson, listening exam prep, focussing on numbers.
Second lesson, comprehension and local issues. Teacher so patient, doing an open cloze, hard work keeping ppls attention.
Both classes: Ss need some chinese vocab support/ glossing.
Students safe behind chairs and tables. Discussion be easier in a circular space (even keeping chairs & tables)
Throughout one lesson, students were working on a 3D design project to build a living space (for a class in the afternoon), they were cutting, fitting, gluing and listening more or less at the same time. How could you harness that desire for 3-dimensions and focus it toward the English lesson (vs cope with it).
Possible: Create a 3D game, use play sets (like the barbie sets in Marvel/DC). Lego. Read intro to a play, make the set with lego (like the Endgame one). Watch a HK TV show, re-make the set, describe the set, get prepositions. See if you can describe a set and the other team can make the set you described.

Drama games that cd be used to back up the lessons: Nouns: Mona Lisa game, freestyle. The furniture game; Prepositions: Look at blueprints and plans. Design own house or shopping mall. Make a book mapping a district. Go to the park and write down/map out which plants are where (the labelled plants).