Stephanie_CO#3

A couple of weeks ago, I sat in on a group 2 listening class. It was very helpful because I taught a listening class two days later, and I really think this experience helped me. The teacher started the class by writing the agenda down on the board and explaining the itinerary to the class. Then, he made a warm up activity by putting a few vocabulary words on the board and asking the students to teach each other what those words meant. He wanted them to practice their speaking, listening, and interpersonal skills. After the warm up, they reviewed everything as a class and made sure each student fully understand the definition of each word, how to use it in a sentence, and a synonym of the word. This activity was a schema building activity because all of those words ended up being in the active lesson activity. The active lesson activity was an audio article about FIFA, which was meaningful because all of the students in the class are interested in soccer. He played the audio file two times, and had the students take notes. After the audio file was played, he had the students create a summary of the article, identify the main idea, and answer a few comprehension questions. We actually ended up running out of time because the students had so many questions after the active lesson, so he said they would continue the activity during their next class. And their homework was to listen to the audio file again. I found this class to be a great learning experience because of the class's structure and the way the teacher taught the class. He kept it very level appropriate and meaningful.