Lesson no. 15

Lesson no. 15
31 July 2009 / Friday
(16:00 – 17:30)

Total number of students present = 3

Beginners:

The following vocabulary (in alphabetical order) was present on the handout:
busy / cold / cute / dangerous / famous / fast / fat / handsome / heavy / hungry / noisy / poor / rich / scary / sick / sleepy / strong / warm

The teaching method used this time was the same as during lesson 14.

General:
I found a reading comprehension exercise on http://www.learnenglish.de/vocabulary/jobs.htm#dialogue . I edited the text of the reading comprehension in the following way: I erased prepositions from a few places in the text, and put blanks there instead. I asked the students to fill in the right prepositions. Once this exercise was done, we used the complete text to answer MCQ’s related to the text: http://www.learnenglish.de/Games/Reading/ReadInterview.htm . The MCQ’s were of an average level but the preposition exercise was considered a bit difficult by the students.

I also had a conjunction exercise http://www.esoeonline.org/main-index/index-exercises/grammarexs/elem/elemconjunctions.htm
about the use of ‘so’, ‘but’ and ‘because’. This exercise was found relatively easy.

Since prepositions are always found difficult by the students, I plan to search for or assemble an explanatory handout for the next time.

One student also attempted a preposition exercise from one of the previous lessons.