OBSERVATION TASK 1

Gastón Benitez Length of 3 hours

Level B1.1 Teacher’s name
lesson
10 students (7 women and 3 men), 3 missing
Composition of group

Teacher’s aim of Revision of present perfect continuous and transportation vocabulary

the Lesson

In this lesson you are going to focus on Classroom management. Read the questions below and make notes as
the lesson progresses.
1. How does the teacher start and finish the class?
The teacher starts by greeting the class and asking students if they want to share any personal anecdotes.
He then proceeds to check homework by eliciting from students the answers and asking them to explain
to each other when one of them doesn’t know the answer.
To finish the lesson the teacher finished wrapping up the discussion between the students and started
setting the homework for next lesson.
2. How does the teacher get the attention of the class?
The teacher gets their attention by telling them “pay attention” in a calm manner. The students have no
problem paying attention to the topic
3. In what way does the teacher deal with inappropriate behaviour?
There is no inappropriate behavior in this class since all the student are adults and behave accordingly.
The students have a very respectful relationship with their teacher.
4. Make notes on the different positions of the teacher at different stages of the lesson e.g. sitting,
standing, moving around.
The teacher was standing up during most of the lesson, he sat down when students had
specific activities and didn’t need him and when talking about a specific subject. Since the
classroom is small he didn’t need to go to every desk to talk to each student.
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1=Standing 2=Sitting 3=Moving around

5. What do you notice about the teacher’s eye contact?

The teacher doesn’t make much eye contact when talking to the whole class but when students speak

individually or as he asks questions to them, he makes eye contact and if needed also makes reassuring

sounds to the student as to get them to keep talking.

Concluding comments on the teaching process and learning outcomes

The students were able to understand and use the target language without any major difficulties. Since this

was a revision I believe the aim was fulfilled. The students are very shy and don’t participate much unless
the teacher asks one of them directly, I believe this happens because the students don’t feel confident

enough to speak. The teacher is aware of this situation and elicits from the students as much as he can,

even to answer students questions, he asks another back to them. Most of the tasks required them to

work in pairs, or groups of three and thus making the lesson more communicative.
OBSERVATION TASK 2

Gastón Benitez Length of 3 hours

Level B1.1 Teacher’s name
lesson
10 students (7 women and 3 men), 3 missing
Composition of group

Teacher’s aim of Revision of present perfect continuous and transportation

the Lesson vocabulary

You are going to observe interaction patterns. Draw a chart and write the interaction patterns that take place
in the class. Choose from the following options

1) Teacher talking to individual student (T-

S) Student talking to another student (S -
S) Teacher talking to the whole class (T -
W) Pair work (PW)
Group work (GW)
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1=T-S / 2=S-S / 3=T-W / 4=PW / 5=GW

2) At the end of the lesson think about the amount of teacher talking time (TTT) and the time
the learners talked in class and the impact that this may have in the learning process

Interaction Pattern Aim

T-W The teacher has a high TTT mostly because his
students are very shy and don’t want to speak.
Even though he elicits as much as he can from
the students, they aren’t eager to speak out
loud to the rest of the class. They tend to speak
in a very low voice and almost as if they were
crouching their bodies.
PW/GW This seemed to be the most popular interaction
pattern. I believe this is because the students
feel way more comfortable talking to each
other rather than out loud to the teacher. They
did seem to help each other by correcting
mistakes or the vocabulary.

Concluding comments on the teaching process and learning outcomes.

Even though the students continue to feel uncomfortable speaking out loud they were able to use the target
language in the correct manner and they all had the opportunity to practice during the lesson.
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Length of
Level Teacher’s name
lesson

Composition of group

Teacher’s aim of
the Lesson

For this observation you will have to do the following:

1. Make notes on the teacher’s instructions.

2. What linguistic features do you notice?
3. Does the teacher demonstrate the tasks?
4. Does the teacher use non-verbal communication?
5. How does the teacher check instructions?
6. Do all students follow the instructions? If not, why not, why do you think they do not?

Concluding comments on the teaching process and learning outcomes.

OBSERVATION TASK 4

Length of
Level Teacher’s name
lesson

Composition of group

Teacher’s aim of
the Lesson

For this observation you will answer the following questions:

1. What types of questions does the teacher ask? Write some of the questions down.
2. Which questions are more effective in getting students to talk?
3. How does the teacher encourage learners to use the target

language? Concluding comments on the teaching process and learning

outcomes.

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OBSERVATION TASK 5

Length of
Level Teacher’s name
lesson

Composition of group

Teacher’s aim of
the Lesson

Pay attention to the way the teacher uses aids and resources in the classroom

1. What is the aim of the use of these resources?

2. Who makes use of them?
3. At two points during the lesson, copy the board contents in the tables below. What did the teacher use
the board for? How did (s)he organise her/his work? What were the students doing while the teacher
was writing on the board? What have you learnt from this observation?

Concluding comments on the teaching process and learning outcomes.

OBSERVATION TASK 6

Length of
Level Teacher’s name
lesson

Composition of group

Teacher’s aim of
the Lesson

Error correction
This task focuses on learners’ errors in oral production and on ways that the teacher or learners deal
with them. Choose four errors made by students in class, classify them and write down how the teacher
deals with the errors.
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Error:
Type of error:
Correction:

Concluding comments on the teaching process and learning outcomes.

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