Will Stone- CO2

 

The Second class that I observed was Karin Devick’s group one listening class, which was focusing on intensive listening. I walked in after a majority of the class had already taken their seats. After I had taken my seat, Karin informed the class that I would be sitting in on their lesson and asked me to introduce myself. A minute after I had introduced myself, the last student came in late. He rushed through the door and quickly uttered an apology to the teacher. She promptly stopped him from sitting down and asked that he properly apologize to the entire class and then apologized to him for embarrassing him in front of peers. The first thing that Karin did was write the schedule for the day on the board. The preliminary activity consisted of Karin playing a trailer for the new Pixar movie Brave several times and having the students fill in a pre-prepared script that had blank word spaces for students to fill in. After the activity was finished and Karin had gone over the correct responses with the students, she informed them that they would be quizzed on symbol meanings and gave them a few minutes to prepare for it. The quiz was 23 questions long and covered fairly basic symbols (! # $ % & @ w/ “). After going over the correct answers, she introduced the next lesson, which would be interviews and American culture. The vocabulary was introduced and seemed to cover southern foods mostly, which prompted a student to ask what ‘gumbo’ meant. The class then reviewed the words by asking for example sentences. The late student sat next to me and asked for several examples or answers. Karin announced that they were going to watch interview videos, but they had run out of time. Overall I found that the lessons/activities were fairly simple but seemed effective in conveying the predetermined content in and engaging way.