Week 2

WEEK 2

This week I observed the 10th class. The topic was ‘Past Tense & Past Continuous Tense’ and they were going to have English exam the following week so the teacher wanted to finish the grammar subjects as soon as possible.

At the beginning of the class there was no warm-up activity. The teacher directly started the lesson like ‘Open your notebooks and write down the sentences on the board.’ It was 8 o’clock and I felt as if the students had a bit difficulty to adapt the lesson. The sentences were about the usages of the past tense;

-actions at a definite line

-repeated actions in the past

- people who are no longer alive

Than the teacher asked the students which tense is it? As they already knew the tense from the last year they just reminded the rules. Teacher gave some sentences as an example which were funny from the newspaper headlines. (e.g. ‘Diana was stil alive hours before she died.’) It was real language and very authentic sentences taken from newspapers so I found it beneficial and encouraging.

In a same way teacher continued with ‘Past Continuous Tense’, first she gave the usages and than rules. After finishing the rules she wanted the students to complete the exercises in their book.While the students were doing the exercises about the tenses the teacher walked in the class, checked and observed the students also helped some students who needed help.

I observed that standing in front of the board while teaching the rules helps students to focus the subject and walking around the classroom while the students doing activity helps teacher to control, observe and eventually reflect to her students.