Today, I was really glad that Fifi presented another lesson. This was because her last two lessons had many mistakes and scored her a pretty low grade. She took up my suggestion and decided to give it another go. Well done, Fifi. You did better this time and had less mistakes in your spoken language as well as in your worksheets. Good. For those who are wondering, Fifi began by blindfolding a student in her classroom and making her walk to her seat (dangerous, i know!).
She then asked what the students should do when somebody is in need of help. After that, she divided the students according to colour. She distributed sheets of paper in different colours. Those who got red, had to sit with others who got red too. She then moved on to a a Power Point Slide with a table.
Students discussed what they did that involved helping another person, when, why, and how. After discussing in a group, students presented how they helped another based on the table given.
Next, she showed a text on community service. She presented expressions/phrases to convince in an argumentative essay. She also highlighted the linkers.
Students were then given a situation about a grandfather who was making a choice between staying in the city or the village. She gave two different scenarios and asked students to write an argumentative essay to decide where grandfather should stay. She gave a new list of expressions as well. One was a little difficult esp when given without context" "Without a doubt...". Think of context always when introducing new aspects of the language. Finally, she asked students to check their peers' work.
What does blindfolding have to do with the Table on helping others, the community service text and the decision about grandfather? I have no idea. The link between the lesson stages needs to be smoother. It is good that students need to use the expressions/phrases to convince but a sample writing needs to be exactly the same as WHAT you want the students to do. You can't give a text about something else and expect students to write something else. Other than that, I think you did well.
Sorry fi~ i was late!
ReplyDeleteBut i can see from the picture that your set-induction was really interesting and effective. Everyone was enjoy
I can say you was little bit nervous. What i mean here is that you should do it better if you make your self come down. because i know you, you can actually do this very well.
From the brief presentation of your lesson I can see you have done a lot of preparation in that.
One more thing need to improve is the instruction that you gave. I think you should make sure it is clear and comprehensive.
TQ
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ReplyDeleteFifi, first of all I want to say well done for accepting the challenge to present again. I know it took a lot of courage for her to redo the presentation. Obviously, her lesson was much better than the previous one. The activities and question sheets that she prepared was more meaningful and related to the lesson. I love the set induction part when she blind folded her student, I might be quite dangerous to apply it in the school but she can change it to a role play activity and ask other students to help the blind person.
I do agree with Mubarak that she seemed a little nervous, maybe it was because she tried her best to control everything to make it smooth. She also needs to improve on her instructions. For the second activity, she asked students to fill in the table. The activity was ok but she didn’t state it clearly whether it was only for the blind or any experiences that students had in helping people. Before she jumps in into the next activity about community service, she should make the connection between the blind people with the community service. For the essay, the way she introduced it and taught the structure was ok, she only has to change the topic of the essay to make it relevant to her topic, community service. Good job dear =)
Fifi, first of all I want to say well done for accepting the challenge to present again. I know it took a lot of courage for her to redo the presentation. Obviously, her lesson was much better than the previous one. The activities and question sheets that she prepared was more meaningful and related to the lesson. I love the set induction part when she blind folded her student, I might be quite dangerous to apply it in the school but she can change it to a role play activity and ask other students to help the blind person.
ReplyDeleteI do agree with Mubarak that she seemed a little nervous, maybe it was because she tried her best to control everything to make it smooth. She also needs to improve on her instructions. For the second activity, she asked students to fill in the table. The activity was ok but she didn’t state it clearly whether it was only for the blind or any experiences that students had in helping people. Before she jumps in into the next activity about community service, she should make the connection between the blind people with the community service. For the essay, the way she introduced it and taught the structure was ok, she only has to change the topic of the essay to make it relevant to her topic, community service. Good job dear :)
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ReplyDeleteI see improvements from this lesson. The activity is more interesting. And the lesson is more fluent. And the topic is very
meaningful. i think if her lesson's stages is more connect to each other, that will be prefect. I think the main topic of
this lesson is help others, but at the beginning of the class it's about help the blind people. And then the writing sample
is about community service. At while writing it is about help grandpa. Seems all of these is about helping others but it is
different situation. I think it's better to force on one situation would be better. For example, the topic could be help
the blind people, then the activity is about feel what is like to become a blind person. After the activity the fill the
table about how they help the blind people. And the writing sample should be the same topic with the activity. It's about
blind people. Finally you can let them write a essay about how to help blind people. Beside this, the lesson is great.
Good job!
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ReplyDeleteFirst of all, thank you for your third lesson. I liked your sample essay very much. It was very clear and helpful. It clearly illustrated how to write an essay and which parts students should pay attention. Other than that, the activity at pre-writing stage was really good. It was a good way to help students prepare to write. However, the problem in your lesson was the ‘connection’ as others said. You introduced the ‘wh-’ at the beginning of the class but you asked students to write an argumentative essay. I thought that ‘wh-’ is a way to help describe details. So, you can change your writing task. Maybe students can write a story about whom and how they helped. Overall, good job!
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ReplyDeleteFor Fifi's presentation, I'm excited with her set induction. It was really eye-opening for her lesson. Yet, she is still having problem with her instructions and pronunciation. She might be nervous and I guess she will overcome this problem if she go in to a real classroom. Although there's some grammatical errors here and there, but I can say that she improved on her instructions. Her lesson is kind of choppy where for the first part (Pre-writing), she bought students to the idea of community service but in her writing stage, she asked students to write an Argumentative essay on living in the city or village. I think she should re-plan her lesson only on that part. Other than that, she did her very best for her last presentation. Good job Fifi. :)
the set induction was good, i like it. She has improved on coping with her speaking anxiety.
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