Jodie CO #3

I observed Vicky’s Group 2 speaking class. The lesson for the day was “How to form question”.  She used playing tennis as an illustration for “dialogues”.  She told them that they would be working on 2 kinds of dialogues.  The first one generated a “yes” or “no” answer.  She explained the intonation that would come at the end of a question. She gave examples to demonstrate the intonation used with questions.  She then asked students to divide into pairs to ask each other questions based on the projected exercises on the board.  The students freely asked each other questions.  She walked around the room and listened to their conversations. 

The second activity with dialogues was information questions using “what, where, who, why, and when.”  The students worked in groups.  They learned to use the right words to ask the questions that were on the board.  Vicky showed a video interview on Taylor Swift and asked the students to listen carefully the questions that the interviewer posed.  She reminded the students that the interviewer responded to the answers like a tennis match.  Vicky then had the students brainstorm the names of the celebrities that they knew.  The class was again divided up into pairs, this time to work on an assignment in which one student was an interviewer.  The students were later told that they would continue during the next class period with the assignment.

Vicky was very energetic and lively.  Most of her students were very eager to participate.  She knew each of their names very well, and she called on the quiet ones to answer questions.  It was truly interactive between students and teacher as well as between students.  She is a great teacher!