Jennifer_CO3

Today I observed a Group 2C Speaking class with Victoria Davis. I was running late, so I literally ran to class and managed to get there right before class started! Victoria introduced me to the class. She explained how today was a mixed level (Group 2 Level 3 and 4 students) and today was an unusual class. Apparently one of the teachers is sick, so the class was combined today. Victoria split the class into groups of three or four ( there was about 3 groups of 4 in total). Victoria told the class today was a casual speaking class, where each group would get a topic with ten questions on it. There would be one group leader per group, who would read the questions to the group. Then the group would discuss the question. I sat at the same time every time, and each group rotated different people about every ten or fifteen minutes. I would sometimes chip in during the conversation or help if they didn't understand a vocabulary word. Some of the topics were interesting, such as the USA, the movies, etc., but some topics the students really hated, such as recycling and gardening. It really helped me see how motivated students can be when the discuss something they like. They would sometimes go off into tangents about the questions too, which wasn't necessarily bad because they were still practicing and using English. Ultimately the goal of the day was to help with fluency, and I could tell just making the students converse really helped.