Joseph Bayliss CO#1

Today, June 24th, I observed Leesa Truesdell's grammar lesson for Class 2A. The lesson for today covered the simple present tense. Leesa began the class by having her students write five sentences in five minutes about food. Following this, the students were instructed to construct a personal narrative in ten minutes. These activities were succeeded by an inductive review of the simple present tense, wherein the students had the opportunity to explain the usage of the tense themselves before the teacher did it for them. After this brief inductive lecture, the instructor drew a chart and had the students write a verb in first person singular, second person singular, third person singular, and all of their plural equivalents (except for second person plural, nice job, English). Students could volunteer words as well as their own participation in the exercise. Leesa closed the lesson with another brief review of the tense, covering some of its third person exceptions (-ies, -es, -s). All in all, I found this observation to be quite helpful in understanding how an actual TEFL classroom is run, and I look forward to doing another one.

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