Class: 308 Teacher: 袁正玉
Lesson objective: Grammar (Sentence Pattern) [Main] & Vocabulary (Synonym) & Writing & Reading (Dialogue Poem)
Teaching materials: English Textbook, 2 worksheets, 1 assignment
Opening
In the beginning of the class, Ms. Yuan led students review the vocabulary they have learnt in last class. Then she made a clear statement on the lesson procedures and the activity they would do in this class. According to her statement, they would have two activities in this class. Before starting this class, she showed students something below on the blackboard.
Handling Stress Regard A as B
Tension Take
Pressure See
Strain View
(synonym) Think of
Look upon
She has written the topic of this class and some useful grammatical patterns on the blackboard, and then asked students to follow these patterns to do the first activity.
Body
1. Consulting activity—In this part, teacher wanted them to take turns in playing the role of the consultant and the patient. During this process, they could be more familiar with those grammatical terms and find a way to handle their stress.
At first, she asked each student to find one or two members to form a group and gave them the first worksheet. Students have to write down their issues then exchange their worksheet and give some useful advice to each other. The interesting part is that two students ask if we can give them some advice, and we did. During this activity, Ms. Yuan walk around to observe each group’s presentation. When students had some problems about this activity, she would explain the rules again in English. However, if they still couldn’t get it, she would explain certain difficult phrases or vocabulary to them in Chinese.
2. Dialogue Poem activity—In this part, Ms. Yuan gave them the handout with a lot of dialogue poems on it. She asked some of them to read it aloud in pairs first and want them to share their own opinions.
On this handout, there are a lot of creative poems which were created by different pairs. The most special part is that the poem was created by two people, but somehow the poem was quite a harmonious combination of different tones. After reading those poems, Ms. Yuan left some time for them to create their own work in pairs. She still walked around to see if there are any questions.
Closure
In fact, there was not enough time left for Ms. Yuan to do any summary of this lesson. Most of students even didn’t finish their “Dialogue Poem,” in that case, Ms. Yuan asked them to take it home and finish it. She also asked them to hand it to her later and she would do give them some feedback then print those poems to share with the whole class.
Feedback
First of all, I have to say that I adore Ms. Yuan’s teaching style and I also appreciate those two activities she designed. I believe that she must put a lot of effort to do the preparation of this class, because those activities bring her students so much fun and sense of achievement. Let alone the students can learn this topic well through these activities spontaneously, that is the goal which is hard to achieve. However, there is still some space for us to improve and considerate; such as how to manage our time more efficiently? How to create a great atmosphere but still keep students under control at the same time? As I said, I really enjoy this class and learn a lot from Ms. Yuan, but I also think it is a pity that there is not enough time to do a brief summary. In my opinion, the most time-consuming part is the grouping part; maybe there will be a good way to solve this problem. I also noticed that Ms. Yuan did pay her full attention to each student’s demonstration and answer each question carefully, and I am deeply fascinated by her caring action.
