CLASS OBSERVATION N°6

CLASS OBSERVATION N°6

Saturday, October 15^th 2016

This Saturday was the first day with the new module.  Honestly, I was a little bit worry, because it was a new beginning with teens that I had never seen before. Teacher Louis and I were charged to work with module 11 and for me it was kind of difficult because in this module I had to work basically in the Listening skill.  For this class, T Louis told me that he was going to teach the complete 4 hours classes and I developed just two extra activities to break the ice with the new students. 

Activity 1: warm-up

To break the ice, T Louis asked Ss to stand up and play a game, Ss have to say if they were right hand or left hand; the people who had right hand or viceversa had to through a ball and maintain the ball moving to the other classmates. If someone left the ball fall down, T was going to ask some questions. 

( I saw that students were a little bit shy and they did not want to participate in the game).

Activity 2: Vocabulary

Besides the previous activity, T presented some new words related with the topic, Ss had to check the words and if they did not know the meaning, they had to search the words in their dictionaries, but if they knew the meaning, they need to past on the board the word. After that, T asked Ss the question why do you use computers; Ss had to get in pairs or trios in order to discuss the question.

( This activity was interesting for students, they participated many times and answers the teacher’s questions).

Activity 3: Vocabulary activity

After Ss work in the question, and working with the same partner T asked Ss to work in their books. (Many Ss did not have the book yet).  However, before to work in their books, T asked Ss to check the words and if they have new words that they did not know the meaning, T explained them. Then, Ss were asked to work in their books exercise 1 and 2 and answer each exercise with their own information. Besides, Ss were asked to share their information with a partner and then with the whole class. (At the end T Louis made CCQ).

( In this activity students were working without any problem and participated reading some instructions).

Activity 4: Listening Part I

Besides, T asked Ss to work in the first part of the listening.  Ss had to answer base on what they audio said. (T played the audio twice). When Ss finished, T asked them to share their answers with two classmates and then as a whole class.

(I saw that students like to listen the audios and they finished very fast).

Activity 5: Extra activity

Later, T asked Ss to stand up and make two groups, each group received a marker. Ss must write on the board as fast as possible some adjectives, verbs in past participle and nouns. When the game finished, the whole class received candies.

( This activity got the attention of students, I could realize that they liked to have some competence games).

Activity 6: Listening Part II

When the game finished, T asked Ss to continue working in their groups and talk about “The computer of their dreams”. Each Ss must talk twice sharing their ideas, while T Louis was monitoring each group. Besides, T asked Ss to sit down and a new audio was played. Ss had to listen carefully and answer exercise B. Then, T asked Ss to listen to the audio again and check the information in their books. One more time the audio was played, Ss had to answer T true / F false, when Ss finished, T checked the answer with the whole class.

(Students liked to work in pairs because they talked about the questions that T made and I saw that they respect to much their T and they tried to talked about the topic). 

Activity 7: Speaking activity 

Besides, T asked Ss to compare the pictures that were on the book using the adjectives that they knew. Then, Ss were asked to compare their cellphones using the same adjectives. (In this activity Ss needed to work in pairs).

Before to have the break, I was charged to play the game called “Rabbits, walls and arrows”, Students enjoyed the game and to be honest, I could realize that they were good students.

After the break, T luis played the game “Snake words”. Ss needed to say a word beginning with the last letter of the main word.  For example: Good, dog… and so on.

(To be honest, Ss loved this activity because they had the opportunity to show their cellphones and compare them).

Activity 8: Listening Part III

Later, T asked Ss to stand up and play the game “Rabbits and Jails”, Rabbits needed to move to another jail or viceversa. Then, T asked Ss to sit down and listen to a conversation, Ss had to listen and answer some exercises. Later, Ss were asked to check their answers with a partner.

(I liked this activity because, Ss were a little bit bored, and this exercise helped the teacher to get the attention of them).

Activity 9: Speaking

At the end of the class, Ss were asked to create a new conversation. Ss were asked to create a real conversation; they had to talk for 3 minutes base on the topic “Computers”. T asked Ss to get in pairs. To finished, T asked each pair to pass in front of the class and present their conversation.

(In this activity I saw that Ss were interested and they created the conversation without any problem).