skills lesson

1. Gaining attention : In the begining of the lesson teacher mentiones about previous lesson and says that he will make them listen a song about the previous lecture and he also uses some pictures behind him. By these materials he is trying to draw students’ attention and prepare them to the next topic.

2. Informing the learner of the objective: After that, teacher explains that he will teach “how are you?” question and its different kinds of usages.

3. Stimulating recall of prior learning :He explains that we are only taught an answer to this question and it is correct. However; there are some other answers to this question and he tells that he will teach them also. By the answer “I am fine and you?” he tries to remind the students of their past learning and get the help of it.

4. Presenting the stimulus : He starts to teach what kind of answers can be given to the question “how are you?” and he gets the help of the pictures behind so that this will help the students understand the content both by visual and audial ways.

5. Providing learner guidance : He uses his gestures while he answering. For example, for the answer “I am hungry” he is showing his stomach. He explains why it is important to use gestures so that students can understand the logic behind. After he shows the action he wants them to do the same thing(practicing together) and motivates them by celebrating - in this case clapping their own actions.

6. Eliciting performance : He shows a game to the students. They are in group of two and they are acting out by the question “how are you?” and different answers. After that they act out in a given period andcombining their previous learning e.g. “what is your name?” and so on.

7. Providing Feedback : He firstly tries to encourage them so that they can believe they will do and success.After the students act out, he immediately gives feedback such as using phrases “very good” or clapping to congratulate.

8. Assessing performance : In the very beginning of the activity , he shows with a model student and assess his performance as good.Later on he encourages and wants all of them to do that.

9. Enhancing retention and transfer: During the activity, students use other structures that they learned and they combine the old and new. Also; teacher explains the logic that they can communicate well and continue their chats in daily life by using these different answers. He tries to tell them that they can combine and transfer this new structure to their future learning.

I think this lesson is suitable for an effective teaching. Teacher not only shows the activity but also explains the logic behind. He is also a good motivator. He encourages students and gives them positive feedback.