WEEK 3-4 THE LESSON

Student Teacher: Mine ÖNER- Fatma EŞ

Class: 3-G / 3-H

Date: 19.10.2015 - 26.10.2015

Lesson: English

Number of student: 25

WEEK 3

In this week, we observed about what our mentor did in presentation, practice and production phases of whole lesson and each activity in a lesson.

The teacher always greets to students by using target language.

  -          Good morning students

  -          Good morning teacher

  -          How are you today?

  -          fine, thanks

The teacher started the lesson with repeating the previous lesson, numbers 1 to 20 that the numbers were students’ homework. The students counted the numbers by standing. Teacher helped the students who couldn’t remember the numbers. Many activities were done about the subject in order to reinforce and the teacher used effectively her body language, gesture, voice and her lesson. She used simple, clear and short instructions for her students and always taught a subject gradually. She checked by asking questions and by using her tone and voice whether they understand or not.

And during the practise stage, The next subject was Body Parts. The teacher prefered to use visual material and She drew a big man on the board, wrote the name of body parts with colourful boardmarker. Then, she used coursebook and she made students do activities in the coursebook. Activities were fill in the blanks, matching and gap-filling about numbers such as “s_v_n”, “f_ur” like that. Soon afterwards the first activite was started. Teacher gave clear and understandable instructions to students by using target laguage first, then native language. All activities were related with the previous subject. Teacher did not use another source.

While activities were being done, teacher benefited from affective learning right along with visual materials. She turned up a song related to body parts. Even though the language of the video was not quite suitable to the level of students, students felt relax and found it enjoyable. Thus, the teacher used Desuggestopedia Method and affective filter was low at that time

To sum up; our personal thought, the lesson was very enjoyable and effective for students. They repeated all their learnings and they enjoyed by drawing a big man. The teacher was good at learning a word and she was really patient.

Week 4

This week, the teacher didnt do presentation stage and she directly passed the new topic was Family members and practise stage. Teacher started the lesson by writing the name of family members to the board and drew family members as stickman. Then she wanted the students to guess the topic. After they gave the correct answer, they repeated the names of family members many times and one by one.

 Afterwards, the teacher wanted to draw their own family on their notebooks. They draw their family. But, unfortunately a few students were active, the others were very slow and were not interested in their drawing or the lesson.

In this week, the teacher didnt interfere her students too much, too. So, time could not be effectively used by teacher, especially as students were  drawing their own family to  the notebooks because the drawing took time very much roughly whole lesson.

In the other lesson, the teacher made students do activities on their coursebook. She wanted to match two same picture from the students and the other activities on the coursebook gave as homework.

In thıs week, the lesson was not effective for both students and our mentor.