Lesson 6: The Family

Teacher’s name: Juan Campos.

Date: August 17^th 2012.

The fifth class was about the family. This class was one of the more challenges because here the teacher was not only teaching simple vocabulary but also little sentences using the new vocabulary. At the beginning of the class the teacher, who performed it, taught children the main members of a family like father, mother, brother, and sister. Then the teacher started to teach some grammar structures such as my name is….; he is my father; she is my mother; he is my brother, and so on. This class was shorter than the previous ones. In it children performed like 5 different activities which were very nice; however, we liked more the one in which children had to point out the picture which was being described. On the board some little pictures about sisters and brothers, wearing cloth of different colors, were pasted. For example, if teacher asked to a child to touch or point out the sister who was wearing green dress, children had to look for it and touch it as we can see in the picture 1 and 2. Another activity we liked was one in which the teacher wrote on the board the new vocabulary learned, but one letter of each word was missing. Then, teacher asked children to pass one by one and to fill or write the missed letter. For example, _ather, in here children wrote the missing letter which was “f”. We could notice that even the youngest child could develop this activity. In addition, we could say that even though at the beginning of the of the lesson, the teacher was not getting good results from children because they were exposed to a very new phase of learning English which was from learning vocabulary to practice it in little sentences, but after some practice children started to give good results. Also we could say that it was a successful lesson due to the fact that in the production stage children showed that they had acquired the new vocabulary and we could say that they were able to remember the little sentences taught. 

                            Picture 1. Children pointing out what they were asked to.

                     

 

 

 

Picture 2