Face to Face? - Chloe Lloveras- Blog 1 T1- AEP9

 Finally! After three years, I’m now able to attend AEP face to face. It’s my first year of high school technically and, at first, it all sounded pretty scary to me. Between my lack of social skills and me being accustomed to typing on a keyboard, I didn’t know what to expect…But wow! After the first class of AEP, this huge weight lifted off of me.

Before diving into that though, we started with “Scrabble,” the game all about combining letters that score you a variety of points. I was paired with Jane, a newcomer to AEP, who unfortunately switched to Filipino class later on. She and I clicked pretty well and won the first game of the day. We didn’t have enough time for another round, since we were only given one period, which is equivalent to fifty minutes.

But the fun didn’t stop there! We played again the next day, but with two matches this time. Janek won the first time, but Jane and I won the second. I enjoyed combining words very much because I came up with words like “candies” with the original word of “dies,” and “zesty” as well! Those scored us well over thirty points each time, which evidently brought my partner and I in the lead. 

In the following week, Jane had transferred to Filipino class, so we were only left with six of us: Sayum, Meral, Shasmeen, Leo, Janek, and myself. Miss Disa decided to mix things up with learning grammar, specifically the future simple tense. 

We answered a short seatwork with fifteen questions so she could get a better understanding of our grammar level. Although I didn’t do too bad,  I knew I could do better. I remember at the time being pretty confused with some of the blanks, since there were so many of them. The answers were just slow in coming to me. But luckily, next week, I had much better results.

With the first few weeks of AEP class, we were all starting to get the hang of this “new normal.” However, technology said otherwise. We didn’t get off to a great start since we were met with many technical difficulties. Between the echoes, sound issues, and all the gadgets, we were all as lost as Bedouins in a sandstorm! 

Thankfully, the issues were fixed later on and the lesson proceeded. We learned terms to use in the future simple tense like “will,” “won’t,” and “are/is going to.” Then we proceeded to what situation they would be used in like making a promise, offer, request, refusal, prediction, intention, arrangement, and so on and so forth. 

We all understood it fairly well and were tested on it by a special video Miss Disa created for our grade. It was really cool to see all the fun colors and effort she put into it! 

After that week, we did a recall on what we covered in the future simple tense. The time passed fairly quick and before I knew it, AEP had ended!

So, to wrap things up, AEP was totally not what I thought it was going to be. It was even better! I got to see my classmates, do some collaborative work with them, actually talk to the teacher, and play “Scrabble” face to face.

All of it felt so new. So exciting. And the start of something new!