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4.STUDENTS WILL BE ABLE TO DESCRIBE A JOB THAT THEY WANT TO BE WHEN THEY
ARE OLDER.
00:00 Warm up
T greets Ss.
T asks students to say the jobs they knew.
Ss answer: teacher, doctor, manager, policeman, nurse, etc..
In this process, if some students do well, such as answering correctly, the assistant will
add 1 point to their groups.
In this process, if some students do well, such as answering correctly, the assistant will
add 1 point to their groups.
This game will be played 5-6 times. In this process, if students cant guess who he/she is,
T will give more features, such as sing the song from him/her.
In this process, if some students do well, such as reading the sentence and answering
correctly, the assistant will add 1 point to their groups.
In this process, if some students do well, such as describing a feature, the assistant will
add 1 point to their groups.
This game will be played 4-5 times. In this process, if some students do well, such as
guessing correctly, the assistant will add 1 point to their groups.
In this process, if some students do well, such as matching correctly, the assistant will
add 1 point to their group.
T shows other 4 faces and 4 descriptions with blanks. Students need match the face
according to the description and then fill the blanks according to the features of the face.
For example, one description is like that:
He has big eyes and a small nose. He is a man with _____________________
Students answer like: He has big eyes and a small nose. He is a man with yellow hair, big
eyes and a small nose.
In this process, if some students do well, such as matching correctly and describing the
features, the assistant will add 1 point to their group.
This game will be played 4 times.In this process, if some students do well, such as
matching correctly,the assistant will add 1 point to their group.
In this process, if some students do well, such as matching correctly,the assistant will add
1 point to their group.
This was a EFL speaking class in China. The students were Grade 4 in primary
school. This was a review class so I focused the assessments of the class and the method
The first thing I observed was how the teacher assessed the students. As Nunan
said,Assessment attempts to answer the question How well have the learners
and what they did not. The topic of this class was module a person. Students need
acquired describing a persons appearance and his/her job.To assess these knowledge
points, the teacher created many different activities to assess students. He asked students
to guess the person and occupation, to match the descriptions to people/jobs, and to
describe the job they would be. All the assessments were taken in games or group works.
In that ways, students would not feel nervous as taking an exam. They enjoyed the class
so that you would be interested in learning English which was really important for the
The second thing I observed was the method that the teacher used in this class. I
in this class was very clear: Whats his/her job? He/She is a ....; What is he/she looks like?
He/she is/has... In this class, the teacher created different tasks, such as guessing person,
guessing job, matching person to description, and matching occupation to description. All
these tasks pointed to practice the target expressions. In addition, the last activity that
Anderson,2011,p120). Students talked something that their partners did not know, which
was an information gap. They had choices about what/how to say and they would get
feedback from their teammates. I thought not only CLT but also TBTL were taught
English in communicative situations. The teacher did not teach sentences, phrases or new
words in a list. He created many situations to encourage students to use language so that
Overall, this was an interesting class for beginners. Everyone were active. Students
Reference
University Press.