The Overly-friendly Vampire

My, my how friendly and generous you are Hemah. Some questions you posed were beautifully phrased but some needed work. for example, who don't understand? rephrase please. repeat needs not be used with again for example, repeat again. Hemah's lesson was enjoyable and fun. From the song, I had a dream, to getting a topic from a box to speak in front of the class, to rearrange jumbled up words to form proverbs, to creating postcards. Remember though that sts may step over you if you're waaay to nice. Have I missed anything?

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?

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

Wang Lin 2.0

My, my how she has improved. There was consistency in her lesson activities. The topic: sleep habits was meaningful....definitely better than the way she presented 'ecofarming' in the last class. She was more confident with a louder n clearer voice. Any suggestions for improvements?

Notice that she provided the paragraph number for each of her questions. The para numbers become guides for the students. Good.

SCRIBBLES AND SKETCHES

I found a blog which I really enjoyed reading. The writer is a brilliant one and focuses on random thoughts of his life, reviews of books, a poem here and there...sometimes, intelligent ramblings. Really funny, this guy and his literary prowess is amazing. Try reading his posts and see if you can use these posts as materials for teaching English. Check out his blog here.

P/S If you have similar sites worth looking through, do share.

Love,
AA

Online Love Birds: Si Ting

Si Ting....Si Ting...i love your lesson. your peers enjoyed it too. your lesson was clear, structured, and interesting. from the part where you divide the class into pros and cons, to the passage on the dangers of online dating, you had us glued. (you had us at 'online dating') ;-) one thing you can work on is to give a sample writing that is similar to the essay structure you require sts to follow. do not give a narrative as a sample and ask sts to write something factual. remember to stick to one GENRE at a time.

Da Jacky Code

Jacky 's choices of materials were splendid. love the ads used and the idea of the code which hides meaning. i love codes and so do many people. but you must use these materials accordingly. lesson stages should flow well from one to the other.
you see, Jack showed a pic with a tag: addicted to drive. and then he showed these wonderful ads on youtube. and then he asked students to create tags. this was a writing lesson. Number 1. there wasnt enough writing. Number 2. if the only thing students needed to do was create an ad tag, what was the purpose of showing those beautiful clips? Jack said that there were tags in the ads. but somehow he didnt focus our attention to them. he asked us our feelings about those ads. i think he needs to work on his instructions. his wordings of words need to be clearer. remember, we are all here to help each other improve. i am in no way saying anything otherwise. i believe you need these constructive comments to improve for your next presentation.

Five Meals a Day: Ideally Joy

Joy's lesson on healthy meals is meaningful and well scaffolded (Vygotsky, 1978). the clip on food types could be clearer. Cudnt really hear the words. some spelling mistakes- beacon, soya, and lollypop. it would also be great to have an actual good pyramid with lots of colours to dhow in class. her activities for sts to choose food types and select according to importance and portion were very interesting to her sts. well done. anything else?