9y1 Lesson 4

I thought the lesson was very noisy and this concerned me as Henri couldn’t hear her group. The other thing was I realised that I was shouting down the radio aid. I thought the introduction worked well and the students gained a lot out of it. I thought my explanation of the debating structure was fine but I put too much information on the PowerPoint Presentation which put some of the students off the active listening task. I thought by letting the students choose one person that they wanted to work with was fair and the rest of their group was made up by chance. The students really struggle with working in silence and I said this is something that we will work on every lesson until they get the hang of it. The snowballing of ideas worked really well (individual, pairs, groups). However, I neglected to tell the students about timings and proposition, opposition, proposition, opposition structure. I need to do this next lesson. One student that was on report misbehaved during the lesson and I gave her a poor for working to the best of her ability. I think this was justified.