Ben CO #1

Date/Time: August 29 9 AM

Topic/Skill: Grammar: Simple Past Present Perfect Simple Future

My first classroom observation was for 3A Grammar. The teacher, Ms. Sana has a very easy-going and friendly nature and started the class by asking about everyone’s weekends.  The lesson would be about the simple past and present perfect tense. She used a deductive approach and started the lesson using the board to show how the two tenses are used. She used example sentences and underlined words to stress the form of the tense and used time diagrams to show the situation for using the tense. She would ask questions of individual students to keep students engaged while teaching. After explaining the tenses we did a class activity which everyone seemed to engage with and enjoy.  Everyone had a handout of questions that would prompt the usage of the present perfect tense. Students would ask other students the questions and write down the answers. Ms. Sana would go around the room correcting errors that she could hear and I was asked to do the same. It was a bit of a challenge to really hear what individual students were saying and you really had to get into their personal space to do so. The activity was a fun way for students to put their grammar knowledge to use! After the activity we reviewed an error that Ms. Sana wrote on the board.