yippy skippy

So I'm teaching my first activity in TESL practicum tomorrow. (Yipes!) I'm excited to get to do it, but I'm a little scared too. What if I talk too fast or too quietly? What if I don't simplify the concepts enough? I'm glad that Dr. K will be there to correct me if I'm about to run off a cliff and take out five ESL students with me.

The activity that I'm doing involves introducing new vocabulary concerning fields of study--sociology, botany, philosophy. I need to introduce the vocab, have an in-class activity, then give homework too. (Gee whilikers, I feel like a REAL teacher!) So I decided that for the in-class activity, to match up pictures that relate to the field. I was going to have a matching activity between the word and its definition, but using pictures instead of definitions is probably a better way to grasp the concept. I mean, come on. How many native English speakers can define sociology accurately?

For the homework, I'm going to use a sort of fill-in-the-blank activity using phrases that say a person's interest, followed by a sentence that says "So-and-so should study________". Okay, it's still a work in progress. It doesn't sound all that exciting to non-TESL people, but let me tell you, when you're learning a language, it's easier to learn when it's FUN. So... :P

Oh, and while I was looking up pictures to use for the matching exercise, I stumbled on the following pic under "anthropology":