Wanda_CO_#2

Date/Time: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 / 1:00 pm

Topic/Skill: Speaking/ Level 4 A

Teacher Presentation: Attention getters and transitional phrases

            Today, Ramin had a certified TEFL teacher conduct the class presentation. The teacher told the students the topic of the class discussion and told them the page in the textbook where they could look for reference. As a warmup he showed the introduction of a conference video in TED talk, after which he discussed with the students (schema), the attention getters and transitional phrases that they noticed the speaker used. Then he proceeded to review with the students the meaning of attention getters and transitional phrases. The teacher divided the video presentation in two parts; in the first part of the video, the students had to take notes of the attention getters and for the second part of the video, the students had to take notes of the transitional phrases. After each part of the video presentation, the teacher discussed with the students the results of their notes (positive backwash). The teacher had them go to page 16 of the text book and told them to think how they could use an attention getter in their presentation. He explained the importance of attention getters and how to write them, and then he asked the students to work in pairs with writing an attention getter in their presentations. The teacher helped as needed. I enjoyed this interactive class and learned how I can use variable teaching skills in the class.