Sabrina Debrard CO#2

For my second class observation I visited Ms. Turk's speaking class (level 2A) on Tuesday, January  24th. The class started off with a short exercise where they practiced sounding out the words Ms. Turk wrote on the board (such as 'elephant' and 'showcase'), focusing on the consonants. She emphasized the difference between voiced and unvoiced sounds particularly with the 'th' sound--she used 'these' to demonstrate the voiced sound and 'thought' to demonstrate the unvoiced sound. What I found particularly helpful was that throughout the lesson she drew a face on the board with the mouth, tongue, and teeth drawn out and demonstrated how the mouth moves when a particular word is said. There were also presentations in the class where two of the students gave powerpoint presentations about each other. I thought this was a great exercise because it got the students to practice both writing for the powerpoint slides and speaking in their presentations. I also noticed that Ms. Turk made the effort to speak very clearly and with energy!