Report 3

Task 1

      The teacher enters the classroom and the students greeted the teacher. She asked them to bring their family photos so most of the students brought the photos including his/her family members. She gave signalling start of lesson.  She made a quick review of the previous lesson.

T: “Show me your family photos.” The students showed her and one of the students got up to show her family photo to the teacher. She uses simple language. The teacher praised her and asked her the people in the photo one by one.

T: “Who is she?”

S: “She is my mother.”

T: “Very good, thank you! Now who wants to come and show us their family?”   Another student comes to introduce his family by pointing at the people in the photo.

S: “This is me, she is my mother and he is my father.”

T: “Now open your books. Look at the book. There is a family picture. Imagine that this is your family and introduce them one by one. This is my aunt.” Teacher was done the first example to give them clues. She uses short sentences to be understandable. She tries to use target language but students don’t understand what she says thus she has to uses sometimes mother language.

   When students make noise, she uses effectively her tone of voice. She draws students’ attention by using her body language, eye contact and gesture. She make students repeating instruction in a different way. For example she made a role-play about family members dialog inside the book to make them repeat. She doesn’t depend on book, she integrates technology into the lesson. She watches them videos and use visual aids by means of computer and projection. She uses games activity to check their understanding such as Find the correct one and matching activities. She provides these activities by using computer and projection. She gives homework to students and this generally signals end of lesson.

TASK 2    

This week we have observed pair and group work. Generally , teacher does not prefer to make small group or pair work activities. So , we arranged a group activity for this task.

   Teacher divided students into small groups. Every group had its own pictures and phrases and  every group was supposed to match phrases and pictures. In order to match, they needed to share information and talk to each other . During group work, everybody participated to work.

    According to our observations  students who work together in a group are more integrated to lesson instead of being individual. They had fun and shared information with each other. We can see that involving a group gives more chance to speak and creates an interactive atmosphere in classroom.