Emily CO #2

Date: Wednesday January 13th, 2:00-2:50 am

Topic/Skill: Listening, Group 3

Teacher Presentation: Class began with a TA teaching “word of the day” (‘all nighter’ and ‘mortified’). The TA also emphasized that these words are ‘slang’ words, which is what the entirety of the class was then based on. The teacher then played a recording for the students that they could follow along with their class workbooks. He told them to take notes. The recording was an informative one, about slang (history, who uses it, why, and how/when it is used). After the recording, the teacher noticed that the students looked bored, so he moved his class outside. Once outside, he asked them some review questions about the recording they had just listened to. Then, as an in-class activity, he asked them to write 5 slang expressions from their own language and translate them into English. The students worked in groups for this activity. This lesson also briefly focused on abbreviations such as “yrs,” “#,” “btn,” etc. 

Materials: materials used included a blue listening workbook, speakers, a white board, and recording. 

Student Participation: The teacher called on a student at the beginning of class; he asked him to write an abbreviation of a short sentence he spoke aloud. During the in-class activity, he walked from group to group and asked them about what kind of slang they had come up with.   

Feedback Provided: When the students asked whether one of the "words of the day" was a noun, adjective, etc, the TA responded to them clearly. When the teacher was asked by one student to go more into detail about abbreviations, he did so.