A PRACTICAL EXERCISE...

HI friends, I want to share one of the techniques of my mentor teacher. It was related to make the students create their own fill- in- the- blanks exercise to learn the newly- learnt vocabulary items. First the teacher provided the students with the items and they together worked on their meanings. Then, she gave each student a word and required them to write a sentence which would have some clues related to the target item. The students were required to use the target item in the sentence, too. In our observation hour, the teacher told the students write their sentences with blanks of the target items on the board. After all the students had written their sentences, the teacher said, "As you see this time you created your own exercise." (which is really motivating on the part of the students:)) The students tried to find the missing target items in their friends' sentences. I liked this kind of exercise. First, it was really good for helping the students get motivated and continue to be motivated during the lesson. Second, the students created their own products. Third, all the items were covered successfully at the end of the lesson, which is really desired on the part of every teacher. So my friends what do you think? Can you add some more advantages of such an exercise? Do you think there are some disadvantages? Do you think you can do such tasks with your own students in your class?