Essay - Education - Teaching Methods Activity 1: Question 1: can You...

Education - Teaching Methods

Activity 1:

Question 1: Can you give me some of the reasons why ***** started smoking; and why do you continue smoking?

Question 2: I assume you are aware that ***** can lead to a number of health problems. Which of these do worry about most?

Answer ***** Question *****: I began smoking at the age of 18, when I had just left school for university. I studied away from home, so my parents were not around to keep me from excessively using tobacco or alcohol. I would go out to clubs with friends who smoke and drink a lot. I joined them because I didn't want to seem "uncool." L*****er I found ***** ***** was able to control the *****ing, but ***** ***** smoking. Basically I continue because it makes ***** feel good and relaxed. But ********** more than that - my body actually needs the cigarettes.

Activity 2:

I am not sure that I entirely agree on the position of ***** statement regarding lectures. Of course, *****me lectures are indeed boring and delivered by droning old gentlemen. This is however hardly true ***** all of them. *****ndeed, there are some ***** that are scintillating and interesting, delivered in order to impart knowledge gained through a lifetime of experience and study. With our technological age, it is also possible to make ***** lectures all the more ***** by means of v*****ual materials such as photographs, visual graphics and charts, and sound files. Such ***** ***** hardly be classified as boring.

Fur*****rmore, some learning situations does require lecturing rather ***** discussion. Initial contact sessions for example, where students need to gain a certain ***** of ***** before experiential ***** can begin. In modern cl*****srooms, lectures and discussion are often used concomitantly in order to provide the student with ***** highest quality of