Fulfill Students' Needs...

Wednesday 9 July 2008

The first thing we did today was reviewing the tenses on the present time tenses and subject verb agreement. The students were given a sheet of a grammar exercise and a limited time to work on it. Here, she emphasized the students to read out loud after they had finished the exercise because they could pick up the errors better when they read out loud. There, I walked around to help answer questions and explain tenses. After they finished, the teacher pointed out their mistakes repeatedly so that they would not repeat making the same mistakes.

Then, the teacher gave them another exercise that was requested by the students. Good thing that they really knew what their weaknesses were and keen to improve them.
Then she ran an activity called "a talking exercise" She gave out a set of verbs and adjectives, had them work with their partner to create a sentence, and then discussed with each other. Meanwhile, the teacher and I monitored the class and helped answer questions. Before lunch time, we went to Language Lab. The students worked on a program called Issues in English while the teacher checking their written papers and I monitored them.

After lunch continued on talking about Adjective + Prepostion Combination. It was good that the teacher asked the students the verbs they had difficulties with making a sentence. She gave out a list of those words and asked the students to look for words that they most uncomfortable with. Then, she wrote them down on the board and gave them examples and explained them in depth.