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Skill, teaching point, level, number of students

Skill - Conversation
Teaching points - how to start, continue and close a conversation
- how to make suggestions
Topic of this lesson is conversation, and students will learn how to start a conversation and make it
continue. Moreover, they will learn expressions for making suggestions.
Level - adult beginner
Number of students - supposed to be 13 students / 3 absent / 1 new student
2. What worked well? Why?
Before the class started, I played some music to students who came early. That made them relaxed
and got interested in that day`s lesson. In addition, the main teaching part, making suggestions,
worked well. I called on two students to read the dialogue that I gave them. After that, I led them
to read four sentences and found out the words which are used for making suggestions. I just did
these four sentences as an example, then gave them two minutes to found other expressions of
making suggestions. Two minutes later, I asked volunteers to share their answers. At this time, I
listened to them carefully, and wrote on the board if they got the correct expressions. Next, I asked
them how to accept one suggestion as well as refuse other`s suggestions. This part was not the
main teaching point. Therefore, I did not explain in detail. Instead, I passed out handouts on
accepting and refusing suggestions. Lastly, I gave them exercise worksheets to practice
expressions we learned in that lesson.
3. What didn`t work well? Why?
Create their own dialogue did not work well in this lesson. At the beginning, I wanted them to
work in pairs and create a dialogue in each group, based on the scenario that I gave them.
Although I showed them video on how to do this activity, they were still confused and did not
understand me. On that part, we spent more time than I expected. Furthermore, some students did
not create their conversation orally. They just wrote the dialogue on their notes, individually. This
activity form seemed difficult for lower level learners.
4. What changes would you make if you were teach the lesson in the future?
It seems difficult for students to create their own dialogues according to a scenario, especially for
beginner level. So I would not use this kind of activity if I teach beginners in the future, or I use it
after students learn the context.