Aileen CO#3

  Today I observed the Group 3B Speaking class taught by Ryan Flemming. He started off his class with presentations in which students would talk about a certain word/concept. Today's presentation was done by a student named Belle and she talked about "billionaires" Going by the way she presented I'm guessing the criteria was to provide the definition, 2-3 examples for the word, and to go into detail using any kind of media such as pictures or videos. Following that, Mr. Flemming tested the classmates understanding of the powerpoint by asking for details that she mentioned and wrote them on the board. 

  The last half of the class was focused, working on Timed Speaking Templates that was structured around forming informed opinions and discussing with fellow partners. The aim was to get the students familiar with using certain phrases. In this case "why don't you" for advice. The example provided was "I have a headache/My head hurts" and there was sort of a cultural moment when someone suggested "Why don't you take Tylenol" because not a lot of student were familiar with what Tylenol was. Thus some time was spent on googling Tylenol and asking around the class if there were equivalents to others' countries. In this case the other equivalents were Panadol and the same thing arose for Advil with Profen and Midol as its equivalents'. 

  The last 10-12 minutes of the class was dedicated to working on the feedback that the instructor had handed back to the students on sticky notes. I thought it was a pretty simple yet concise idea for feedback because on a sticky note you can just address main points to work on while at the same time not overwhelming the students with a plethora of mistakes.