CO#1 The Coffee Shop/ Pam

September 5, 2:00 p.m. I deserved the listening class instructed by Debbie Carretta. The first 5 to 7 minutes of the class was used to go over today's date. "Who can tell me

today's date, in proper order?" One of the students calls out, " Thursday September 5, 2013". The instructor commends student for proper pronunciation of Thursday, because the 'th' sound is in very few languages. The attendance is then called, and the class gets moving. You can feel the energy in the class, studentsseem excited to get started, and Ms. Debbie is actively interacting with her students ? She addresses each student by name and allows each student to answer and participate in the classroom discussion. The class has been working on a unit called The Coffee Shop. Ms. Debbie collects the students' listening logs, and asks class does anyone know where most of the world's coffee comes from from? Students take turns answering question by raising their hands. Everyone wants yo participate, but the classroom is well managed, they knew to raise their hands. Ms. Debbie reveies new vocabulary words. I really liked how she didnt overwhelm her students, she only introduced a few new words, barista, customer, perculator,and woman. After she ask students if they know the meaning of the new words she plays a song called Coffee in Brazil. The song was originally sung by Frank Sinatra, She then explains unfamilar words in the song, by writing words along with picture illustrations on the board( crawler, percolator, dunking). Then, once the class had a clearer understanding, she handed them a worksheet that was a fill-in-the-blank print out of the song. A video of the Muppets was then shown to the class, the Muppets were singing the Coffee in Brazil song. I thought this was an excellent way to grab the class's attention. Not only were they encouraged to listen, but they could use this visual aid to help them remember. The song was then replayed and the class had to fill in the missing words. This was repeated twice more. Ms. Debbie reminded class that on on Monday September 9 a quiz would be given on the coffee unit. It was an awesome class to observe, I look forward to observing more of her classes.