AEIS, English

Date: 280409

Day: Tuesday

Students present: Michael, William, Susan, Henry, Noe Noe

Students absent: NA

Teacher (main and assistants): James

Subject: English

Topic: Journal, Review of English Test Paper 1

Teaching process

Concepts taught:

1) As I noticed that students could not do the summary in the test, I asked students to underline or highlight the main details in the newspaper articles while they were doing journals. This is to train them to pick out necessary details in the article so as not to just give a general idea of the article like what they did in the summary in the test.

2) Apart from going through the grammer clozes and the editing portion of the english paper, students were asked to underline all the key words and phrases in the comprehension questions as they had not done so. During the discussion of these questions, they were also taught how to write their answers in full sentences as most of them just gave one word answers or short phrases.

Example questions gone through: NA

Practice questions given: NA

Post-teaching

General comments of students:

Students do not recognize the need to answer in full sentences or to take note of their grammatical errors in their answers as they were not asked to do so in their previous school. As a result, they have a tendency to bargain for marks when their answers were marked down for spelling errors.

Improvement points of students:

Students showed greater interest in the lesson when the discussion was about their test paper. There has been a slight improvement in grammer from the first few grammer practices. However, there's still a need to work on their grammer as most of their comprehension answers contained grammatical errors though they were not marked down this time round.

Homework given (including due date): NA