Erika CO#2

I observed a group 2B grammar class this morning. The class was great. The teacher made several jokes that the class enjoyed. I am used to seeing the videos in class of the teachers speaking slowly, so when I heard him I was surprised. I thought he was speaking very fast, but the students seemed to follow and he was always writing on the board. He used the entire whiteboard. To start off the class, I guess as a warm up, he asked the students about their weekend. That conversation went on for a couple of minutes and then he told them how today was going to work. He explained that he was going to teach differently today. Instead of using the notes in the textbook he was going to write notes on the board and have the students copy them. He also told them that they were going to do activities out of the book. Today, he taught infinitives and gerunds using a Venn diagram. Before he wrote the Venn diagram he asked the students to give a definition for each verb tense. Then, he gave three important rules for each verb tense and gave two example sentences for each rule. After, he had the students write their own original sentences. While they were writing he walked around and answered questions. He asked a couple of students to write one of their sentences on the board. When everyone was finished he went over the sentences as a class. He asked them to tell analyze the sentences, to tell him which words were the infinitives, gerunds, verbs or pronouns. Then he also asked them if there was anything that could be fixed. Many of the students made simple mistakes, such as, not putting a capital letter at the beginning of the sentence, forgetting to put a period or forgetting that certain nouns are always capitalized (languages). The teacher did not fix any of the mistakes; he had the students point them out. At the end of the class, he explained how the week was going to go, he explained that he was going to give them a worksheet, but they would fill it out together as the week went on.