For my first classroom observation, I thought that it would be interesting to sit in on a Group 1 class. I chose Mary Priya Jerry's listening class, because I was totally not about waking up before noon. :P
The first thing that I noticed was that these students were much more proficient in English than I was expecting them to be! The instructor only had to tell one group of students to stop speaking in their native tongue, and she only had to tell them once. Besides that, the students were very good at holding conversations in English with one another and with their instructor. The main activity was to watch a video of a man visiting a coffee shop. After the first viewing, the class was instructed to pay attention to the actors' facial features, and we re-watched the video. The students were then put into pairs and instructed to write a similar coffee shop interaction to be presented to the class, but the time ran out, so I guess they presented it in the next class. Overall, the class was highly engaging and pretty entertaining!
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