On the 14th of January 2019, I observed four lessons, with 3 rd Grades, who usually have six English lessons a week, the numbers of students in classes usually varied between 11 students and 15 students in each class. The aims of the lessons were for students to be able to write activities on the present past, and writing about their birthday party. they Listened to song, read, and wrote a new verse for the song, using some words from the box. The coursebook used for the 3 rd grads is Our World Students book 3, by the national geography learning. When I asked the teacher about her personal opinion about the book, she said that she liked the book because it has great content and good additional materials for language practice and she added, “You have to support it but not heavily”. When I asked the students about their coursebook, most students liked the coursebook, and they said its fun and easy, meanwhile few students did not like it, one student thought the coursebook was difficult. Teacher uses "Storyfun " course book by Karen Saxby and " Home Fun Booklet" for the revised Cambridge English: Young Learners (YLE), by Jane Ritter as other materials to boost and develop kids language.
The teacher started with Pre Task stage when she helped to create a good atmosphere at the beginning of the lesson, she gave the students words and supporting sentences that they used in doing activities in their coursebook and workbook, she supplied the student's words and ideas to support each individual student. Then students started their first activity, which was grammar activity ,they drew a line between the two verb forms in the present and in the past, which took seven minutes including checking. The second activity was from the workbook students were asked to read and draw lines to match the questions and answers, this activity took around ten minutes including teacher's feedback when she discussed the answers with the class. The third activity was listening to the song and filling word gaps, students listened to the song three times, and after they got familiar with the lyrics, they started to fill in the word gaps in their workbook. This exercise took around ten minutes. The last activity was about writing a new verse of the song, using some words from the box, In this activity, students knew the meaning of all words listed in the box and they filled in the gaps easily because they knew how to build a sentence structure.
In the conclusion, materials are very important for the students and for the teacher. It is a fundamental key for teaching and learning, and it must be taken into consideration when it comes to grammar, spelling, pronunciation and vocabulary abilities in order to help them develop their level in English. In addition, the way how the teacher implements the techniques and strategies of teaching in English is not less important than the materials. After taking a look at the topics of the materials and activities, I think I would not change anything in the material but I would probably add some extra activities in case I saw that students did not get some of the crucial concepts right. Thank you.
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