January 26, 2011

Today I was observing 2 more lessons.

The first lesson was with 8th form students. Teacher was a little bit late but after she came to the classroom the lesson started. She checked the attendance. Actually it was the very first time when someone checked attendance through all my observed lessons! It was a good thing. Then they revised what they learnt last time (questions: who? which? where?). After that they checked HW and started a new topic: some, any, no. Teacher explained the rules, gave examples. Then she gave some exercises. Also, I didn't like that teacher was speaking in Lithuanian all the time. She could say something in English and then translate. The thing which I liked is that teacher played some jokes with her students to make atmosphere more cosy and students really felt more relaxed.Later on she gave some HW and the lesson finished.

The second lesson was quite challenging because it was with 3rd form students. They were so active and alive in the classroom: all the time moving, talking, asking, laughing, etc. At the beginning of the lesson teacher asked some students to enumerate months, so that they could get a mark. Later on she introduced a new topic: ordinal numbers. They were learning what suffixes are added to the number if we want to make it ordinal number. Then they did some exercises and the teacher set their HW. After that they were listening to some song and singing together. When teacher saw that they are not listening anymore, she said let's play a game. They were very happy and excited about that. After they played a game the teacher remined their HW and the lesson finished.

Tomorrow I am going to observe two more lessons, but this time not English language lessons.