Task 5: Analyse the Beginning of the

Lesson
Watch the teacher asking the students to do the same task. While you watch,
consider the questions below and make notes in your notepad.

1. Are the students interested in the topic?

Yes because all of them are engaged in trying to find out what really happened in the newspaper story.

2. How does the teacher try to engage the students in the topic?

She arouses the students' attention by asking them questions about what they see in the picture.

3. Are the students working alone, in pairs or together as a whole class? Why do you think this is?

They are working in pairs so they can practise putting their ideas into English before they introduce what they
think to the class.

1. The students show interest in the topic because they respond readily to
the teacher’s prompts and are happy to talk about it in pairs.
2. The teacher has combined three effective ways of engaging students in
a topic:
o she has used a photograph to introduce students to the topic
and this provides a visual element to the start of the lesson
o she has personalised the topic by asking students to relate their
own experience of banks
o she lets students express their ideas, and share and check them
in pairs with their classmates before feedback.

You will look at these three approaches in more detail later in this unit.

3. The students discuss the questions in pairs and then talk together as a
class. The teacher has chosen to do this to make the lesson more
student-centred and to give students an opportunity to express their
ideas in pairs before speaking to the whole class.

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