Jigsaw Task

      The Second Week

I said that they would play a game called “hangman”. I divided the class into five groups and each group chose one student for writing and the writer came to the board. She picked a word up from the box. This word was from target vocabulary. The student wrote blanks on the board according to the given word. The other members of the group tried to guess by saying a letter one by one. When the letter they had said does not belong to the word, the student drew a part of the man on the board. There were two words for each group to write and guess. At the end of the game, we clapped the winner group. I have to say that this activity took more time than I had planned. Since we didn’t have any time limitation, they used time freely. However, they had great fun during the activity and all the students were active and seemed to be excited.

I passed jigsaw task. I divided the class into two groups as individuals and pairs. I handed out some pictures and explained the task steps. The students examined the pictures given. They tried to put the pictures in their right rows. After this section, they wrote a paragraph telling the theme of the story by using target vocabulary given in a box. Half of the class studied on their own and the rest studied in pairs. I collected the students’ papers. Actually, I wanted the same people’s studying collaboratively and leaving the same students alone yet a lot of objections broke out. Some of the students said “I don’t want to do it myself, I want to study with my partner!” or some of them said “I prefer studying individually. Since I didn't want them to do the task reluctantly, I let them change their studying styles. As I thought, they were happier and more productive during the task.

I handed out some worksheets which include the target vocabulary. They matched the words with the pictures representing their meanings. It was really an easy activity since the aim was just to provide recall of the target vocabulary. I collected worksheets.