Et.observation Task_skills - Lesson 1.docx

CELTA | OBSERVATION OF EXPERIENCED TEACHERS

DATE: 15/01/2019

Answer the following questions about the lesson you have just observed: 1. What was the focus of the lesson? Time expressions.

2. What were the aims of the lesson? Give examples. a. main aim (language): b. subsidiary aim (skills): 3. How was key target language/skill clarified? By showing the numbers. The teacher showed the students the numbers and then drilled with them. She showed pictures corresponding to the number on the screen.

4. What were the activities for gist and specific information (or controlled practices)? What about the follow-up activity (or freer practice)? Give examples. For controlled practice, students had to fill in a sheet of paper with numbers. For example: 1. Twelve: 12 In the second activity, students had to write the complete numbers. Ex: 3: three. The students also answered a written exercise about time in which they had to write the figures to the time given. Then, they had to write “a.m” or “p.m” next to a few pictures and the time given. In the follow-up activity, students had to stand up and point at the pictures from the previous exercise and tell their classmates the what time they do the activities shown in the pictures. For example, students points at a picture of a person sleeping and says “ 10 p.m”. 5. Were the lesson aims achieved? Justify with students’ production samples you heard. Yes. When the teacher asked how many hours there are in one hour most of the students answered “sixty”. Most of the students seemed to have correctly answered the written exercises as well.

6. How does the teacher monitor Ss? Give examples. She walks around and observes if the students are doing the activity. She also monitored to check if students were using English.

7. Is there a balance between TTT and STT? Justify. Yes. Students were given the opportunity to talk when checking their answers after finishing their exercises and the teacher talked during clarification.

8. Was the lesson effective? Justify. Yes, students were able to answer the exercises and during the follow-up activity they produced the target language.