Georgie's angels
A long passage is divided into parts and given questions as subtitles. I think this is great and helps students not to feel overwhelmed in a Reading class
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Mr President, yes you can.
My, my how handsome you look Mr President. Georgie must calm down and let his students take the stage esp for a Speaking lesson. The debate and sample structures for a debate were well taught. Students could practise their debating skills. However, the pre- stage was used to explain about the meaning of debate. too long and dry. might bore the sts. need to remember that the pre stage must be used for discussing and brainstorming about the topic. in this case whether using paper was better than plastic. overall though Georgie has improved. his task sheet is suitable and not as difficult as the ones he used in the last lesson. Any other comments?
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Hi everyone,
ReplyDeleteAt first I was confused with George's lesson. I thought it was focusing on Reading skills until the part he taught about debate. The explanation on the debate was too long and it will make the students feel bored. I think the idea of debating was a good idea. It can be improve by giving a few examples of sentences which can help the students in their debating. All in all, good job Georgy.
Hi everyone,
ReplyDeleteIt was a really good lesson. Throughout the whole class, you ‘showed’ us a clear structure of your lesson plan. The passage chosen was very good. It can enrich students’ background of paper bags and plastic bags. In this way, it helps students prepare well and get ready to the speaking part. During the debate, it seemed that it was an activity for high proficiency students. However, you asked students with low proficiency to jot down the ideas from each group on the board. I think it was a really good idea. It can motivate each student in your class.
I just have one suggestion. You can improve your pre activity. It could distract students if you explained too much about debate. You should let students talk more because it is a speaking class. I can learn many from you. Thank for your lesson.
I guess we agree on the same things, here...;-)
ReplyDeleteGood morning guys.
ReplyDeleteSame as Ryu-jin, I was also confused about your lesson. One detail is in set introduction, you asked several questions. After some of us answered the questions, you forgot to give the response, jumped to the next part directly. As I said in the class, you may prepare some pictures or video clips about how is plastic bag made, or the process of recycle.
Good points
I'm agree with everyone that you are a handsome "president". haha
Explaination of the debate, showed sample sentences. It was nice, especially for those low level students. But pls remember, try to make your explaination clear and short.
thank you~
So.....Wang Yi thinks that Georgie makes a handsome President..? hmmmmm.... ;-)
DeleteTrue Wang Yi, we HAVE to provide students some time to think, before they can answer. We must not jump to the next student too soon. You can always come back to the student who needs more time to think. Yes?
Hi everyone, firstly he has improved. The material he chooses is not difficult like last time. And the reading material is
ReplyDeletecome with sub-title. It can help students read more efficient. The per-reading stage is too long. However I was confuse at
first, I though it is a reading lesson. And the teacher should more focus on the students, he talk too much so that the
class become teacher central class. The students just follow the teacher in the class. May be add more interaction with
students will be better. Thanks, well done!
He did better than last time. He really work very hard this time, we can see it from his text which he help us subsection. It will help low level students a lot. As we can see the text also not that difficult than last time.
ReplyDeleteThe lesson is focus on speaking skill, but first time I thought it is reading skill. I hope teacher should teachs students how to use arguement sentensces. Students will catch the knowledge better.
Anyway, thanks for your lesson. good job.
First of all, I was impressed with his attire. Well done for the effort to look formal =)
ReplyDeleteThe article that he used was ok for form 4 students, this time the length was not too long like before. He even highlighted the main point in each paragraph, which was good in helping low proficiency students to get the main idea. In addition, he also provided difficult vocabulary with the meaning of the words for the students. When he asked the students to read, he also helped them by correcting them when they pronounced it wrong. In the previous presentation, there were a few teachers that didn’t correct their students’ mistakes.
The second activity was debate, he did a good job by providing guidelines and introducing the definition of debate to the students. However, his explanations were too long. It seems like more of a presentation than teaching the students about the debate. His lesson was a speaking lesson, but then the students were quiet, it was more to teacher’s centered. He should ask the students more questions and let them try to answer it although they were not sure. I also think that actually he was quite nervous compared with before, maybe because he wanted to make everything perfect. Before he was quite relaxed and being himself. Overall, George is a cool teacher :)
Good points:
ReplyDeleteHe helped his students to read and give the explanation. He explained the lesson so well to the students as he highlighted the main idea of each paragraph. The passage that he used was shorter than before. Then, he taught about debate. This was a challenge for the students. The debate helped the students to argue on facts. A good activity to enhance their speaking skill.
Aspects to work on:
He could gives few argumentative sentences. Then, wrote the examples on the whiteboard.