Sunday, October 27, 2013

Ning Liu CO#3



Grammar Class – Foundation
Instructor – Leslie Wagner
She writes the agenda on the board. During the beginning of class, she allows students to talk amongst themselves in English. She also engages in classroom chat.
1.       Attendance
2.       Final Exam
a.       Errors
b.      Return
3.       Direction Activity
4.       Teacher Evaluations
One of the major errors from the final exams was “Sarah no is happying today.” This sentence was corrected by the students as “Susan doesn’t happy today.” Of course, both do not make sense. She asks students for the correct answer.
She then projects on the board the common mistakes that occurred on the final exam. She split the class into groups and had the students work it out themselves. The students were focusing on the first question for 5 minutes, so she brought the class back together and started to guide them.
“Does your brother is a doctor?” >> “Is your brother a doctor?”
She uses board for correcting errors as a class.
She quickly goes over possessive pronouns. She asks students for the pronouns.

Information Gap activity (Driving activity)
She splits the students into pairs. In each pair, one student gets sheet A, while the other gets sheet B. The sheets have the same maps, but missing landmarks depending on which sheet it is. She explains the activity, and then models how to do it. She goes around class with an error log sheet.
A student is confused, and exclaims “I’m lost!” to which she replies, “Let’s do it together then.”
She gives a quick overview of the activity to wrap things up, then moves onto the teacher evaluation.

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