WEEK 7

This week the taecher started the lesson with warm-up questions as always. 

- What is the world's biggest shopping web-site?

- Have you done any shopping from there?

Than teacher wanted the students to the something different. She wanted them to do role-playing spontaneously.

' We are in the shop now. I need a salesman and customer.' Than selected two students and help them to create a mini sketch. While she was doing them I observed that she was very aware of her teacher roles as prompter, communicator, coordinator, instructor and planner.  She could manage and control the class well. Also the activity was very funny, engaging and helped the students to improve their oral skills.

As a while activity there was a reading passage about online shopping. First they they listen the passage via smartboard. The passage was consisted of 3 parts so teacher wanted three students to read it aloud. While the students were reading teacher ignored the wrong pronunciation, she rarely corrected. I think it was because of not to disturb and discourage the student.

After that teacher asked some reading comprehension questions about the passage in order to check their understanding. Also she asked some vocabulary questions.

‘What is the word for paying money for something?                                                                 àpurchase’

 As a post activity teacher wanted the students to close their books and take a piece of paper. In the reading passage they read three different story and teacher wanted them to choose one and write what they remember about the story. There were highlighted words in the passage and teacher asked the students to use them.

Teacher walked around the classroom while they were writing to observe,check and help them when necessary. Teacher read some papers and gave back the paper to the students who write it to give the students a chance to correct his/her mistakes.(feedback) At the end of the class teacher collected the papers.

WEEK 6

  This week the teacher used the coursebook for the lesson. There were a reading passage and some activities on the book. Before reading, the teacher asked some warm-up questions about the topic and it helped teacher to draw the studnets’ attention on the passage. Than students read the passage on their coursebook also they could see the text and the activities on the smartboard. The passage consisted of 4 parts so the teacher chose four student for each part and wanted them to read aloud.

After reading the passage teacher asked some reading comprehension questions in order to check the students’ understanding. Than there was a good activity on the book. The students were supposed to match the headings with the paragraphs. Finding the suitable heading is very helpful activity for students because it enables them to reflect the text that they read.

At the end of the class there was a song activity that they frequently do. A student brings a song with its lyrics. Some of the words are missed in the activity paper. The students listen and try to catch the missing words from the song. When they finish they sing the song together.

WEEK 5

           

This week the teacher wanted us to do an activity with the class. So we decided to do an activity which is related to their subject (adjectives and superlatives) and also we wanted to do something funny.

We prepared two activities, one of them was a competitive game related to ‘comparative and superlative’ forms of adjectives.We wrote the adjectives on the board and said ‘’You should decide which column the word goes in.’’ There were two columns:

 1)     -er             2)  more…

The class line up as Group A and Gruop B. We devided the board into two part for groups. The students were expected to run to the board and write the adjective to the suitable column by one by. The Gruop who finishes the first and completes the adjectives correctly is the winner.

The second activity was a game called ‘Find Someone Who..’

Students use a checklist as they walk around the room trying to find a person who has a certain characteristic. When students find “someone who drives a truck” or

“someone who was born at home,” they write that person’s name on their checklist

of paper and move on to the next person with the hope that that person meets one

of the other characteristics on the master list. The goal is to meet and talk to as

many people as possible within the time limit in order to put one name by each of the

characteristics.

  By doing this activity we aimed to improve the communication and rapport in the classroom. They loved the activity so much and standing up, walking in the class were also good for them.

WEEK 4

This week the subject was comparative&superlative, the class already knew the subject so they overtly did practice. Teacher chose 2 students and wanted them to came to the board than asked students to compare them.

-Sinan is taller than Kerem.

-Kerem is thinner than Sinan.

-Sinan is more serious than Kerem.

-Kerem’s hair is longer than Sinan’s.

Comparing their friends was a good and funny activity students liked that. Than teacher wanted the students to pay attention some adjectives which are different.

Dirtyà Dirtier

Careless ier  Teacher warned the the students ‘if you add –ier to the words which have more than one syllabus it will be totaly wrong.’

As a while activity teacher told some Turkish sentences to the students and wanted them to translete the sentences into Turkish. While thay are translating teacher walked around the class to check them, also students worked with their pairs and checked their answers.

-Buzdolabında reçelden daha çok peynir var.

- There is much more cheese than jam in the fridge.

-Taksiciler diğerlerinden daha az dikkatli araba kullanırlar.

- Taxi drivers drives more careless than others.

Teacher immediately corrected the mistake and told the students to add –ly to make it adverb.

As a post activity they played a game. They played word chain game with adjectives (comparative and superlative forms were included). I observe that it was very entertaining for students and also it was a good way of practicing the adjectives that they learned.