Lesson no. 6

Lesson no. 6

26 June 2009 / Friday

(16:05 – 17:50)

Topics of the day:
General class: (Part 1 and Part 4)
- Questions
- Articles: A/An
- At/In
- For/Since?

Beginners: (Part 2)
- Days of the week

Advanced: (Part 3)
- More practice with ‘For or Since’ (along with the handouts for the general class --> Part 1)

PART 1:
Today many students showed up for the English class. :) I had an exam till 12:00, therefore I had planned to prepare today’s lesson after my exam. I used the lesson evaluations from last year to choose a handout I had made then. After some struggle I decided to choose a handout about ‘Questions and answers’.

There are certain words we use in order to ask questions e.g. what, when, where, which, who, why, how. One by one these words were written on the board and the students were asked to make a sentence (a question) with these words. Once the question was written on the board, an answer to the question was given by a fellow student and written on the board as well. I found it a useful and interactive exercise.

The following handouts linked to this explanation were distributed in the class:
Handout:

PART 2:
Once I was done with the general class, I decided to explain the days of the week to the beginners. Initially I found it a bit difficult to explain certain things because of the language barrier. I asked some other students to translate a few things for me, and for the rest I relied on my body language and gestures. The handout can be found below:
Days of the Week: http://english-zone.com/grammar/calendar2.html
(and for the ‘Days of the Week’ study chart, see: http://english-zone.com/grammar/days.html)

PART 3:
One student from last time was present today as well, and as promised I gave him a few more exercises about the use of ‘For and Since’. Once he was done, he was given an answer sheet to check his answers. Afterwards I also went to him to clear any doubts about the mistakes he had made. The handout can be found below:
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-m_for-since.htm --> explanation about ‘For or Since’
http://www.eclecticenglish.com/grammar/PresentPerfect1D.html --> for the first two exercises
http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/verbs-m_for-since_quiz.htm --> for the third exercise

PART 4:
Since there were many students with different levels of English in the class today, some were very fast with the first handout while others struggled a little bit with it. It was a little chaotic in the class today because I was going from one side of the classroom to the other, giving students new handouts and explaining them things that were unclear. The handouts from the previous lesson about ‘A/An’, ‘At/In’ and ‘For or Since?’ were given to the students. (For these handouts see the lesson evaluation of lesson no. 5: http://azcleidenenglishteaching.blogspot.com/2009/06/lesson-no-5.html )
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P.S: I will make an attendance list of the students after finishing my lesson evaluation and I will mail it to Mr. Peter.