AEIS, ENGLISH

Date: 200409

Day: Monday

Students present: Michael, William, Henry, Susan

Students absent: Noe Noe (sick)

Teacher (main and assistants): James

Subject: English

Topic: Newspaper Journal, Grammer Practice

Teaching process

Concepts taught:

1) Newspaper Journal

Students were given chances to present their articles to the class. They are encouraged to use the technique of 5W1H to organise their ideas before presenting. The presentations are opportunities for the students to hone their command of the language and to build up their confidence in front of an audience. It will be good to ask the class if they had understood the presentation by the presenter so as to let the presenter gauge his own performance. Feedback can be given after the presentation.

2) Grammer Practices

No concepts taught yet. Students are asked to work on the practices.

Example questions gone through: NA

Practice questions given: Grammer Practices 1-5 (compulsory)

Post-teaching

General comments of students: Students are still not proficient with using the 5W1H. However, when using this technique, students have a tendency to only list the main incident under WHAT and miss out other necessary subevents/details that contribute to it. It is thus necessary to prompt students during the presentation. Students are generally positive towards the idea of doing newspaper journals and are enthusiastic towards presenting before the class.

With regards to presenting, Henry is slightly more proficient in picking necessary details and explaining in a coherent manner while Michael is able to carry himself most confidently.

Students are generally weak in grammer. More details will be given after marking their work.

Improvement points of students:

William has been able to concentrate better on his work.

Homework given (including due date): NA