Different interesting lessons

Globalization

Plato was a Greek philosopher. He divided the society between 2 groups:

- egoistic = individualistic
- altruistic= collectivism

Now, we can find this way of division in our own society with the different political parties for example. Being aware of this is interesting: we, as citizen, can think and have a reflexion about what is really important in the society: the person? the citizenship? our relation and unity with the others? etc. This is a topic that we can discuss in our lesson and ask the teenagers what they think.

WHY?

- To make them aware of their beliefs
- To make them becoming independant
- To illustrate a political landscape
- To make them realise that it doesn't matter what they think but that the most important is to have a democratic behaviour



Physical Education

During this lesson, I had the impression to be a pupil at the primary school: it was so fun!

At the end of the module, each erasmus student from the different countries had to present a typical game.

Although I am a future languages teacher and that I will never teach PE, I have realised that students can really learn something through movement. For example, I know that some teenagers need to see or hear the new stuff to remember but there is also these students who need to feel, touch, experience, move, etc to learn. That's why it's important to vary our material and activities to satisfy all the students and to give them the possibility to learn in the best appropriate way. Making games and activities where teenagers can stand up, move, walk, etc can really be a benefit for these ones!

Music

I was so afraid of this lesson : really, I can't sing!! :D But it was quite funny and relevant for my career.
Actually, students have to learn a new language that is sometimes different from their mother tongue. They need to have some knowledge about vocabulary and grammar but also about the melody of the language, the stress pattern, etc. Using activities related to music such as a song, clap in their hand, etc can really be useful for them. And more, music can be use for the melody of the language, the vocabulary, the structure of the sentences but also some culture when the students are able to understand the message and the lyrics of a song.