David Kirsch CO #1


I observed Ryan Flemming’s grammar class for group 3A on June 25th. The topic for the day was verb tenses, specifically present continuous and past continuous. For the present continuous tense, Mr. Flemming brought up a picture depicting several things occurring in a museum and read aloud several sentences that were describing things in the picture. The students were to either answer true or false if the sentence was correct, and unrelated if the verb tense was not right for the action. Next, the teacher had the students work in groups to make their own sentences about the picture and to have the rest of the group answer true, false, or unrelated. For past continuous, the teacher used a few sentences to explain the verb tense before having the students right their own sentences about a time they were surprised by something. After they were finished, the teacher wrote a few of their sentences on the board and had the students find the errors in verb tense/work placement and corrected the errors while explaining why the verb tense was used in that situation. The teacher continuously provided positive feedback for the students and encouraged them to take pictures of the corrected sentences with they smartphones.

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