Here is the link for the speaking lesson I have chosen:
1)Gaining attention: With a smile on her face the teacher starts the lesson with a common question: How was your weekend? After hearing students' answers(not only she listens but also responds to their answers), she starts to talk about what she has done at the weekend. She says sha has bought a bunny and then write down the world on the board and ask the srudent id they know and expain what it means(bunny: a small rabbit). Then ask the student if any of them have a pet or not.
2)Informing the learner of the objective: After some students talk about their pets, she says that they are going to have a debate, then again ask if they know what debate is. And she explain how debates occurs and says that they are going to have a debate on pros and minus of having a pet. After talking about and write on the board minus and pros. She continues with controversial issues topic.
3)Stimulating recall of prior knowledge: The teacher writes the board pros and minus part and the students says some adjective funny, dirty depending on their experince and knowledge about having a pet's good and bad sides. When she passes the controversial issues part she want them to think about and then say the controversial issues in America.
4)Presenting the metarial to be learned: According to the students ideas about the topic, she writes theird words on the board under either the pros or minus part.
5)Providing learner guidance: While getting the ideas of the students, to make them involve more she encourages them to speak. So she talks about her own pet-her bunny and want them to think about how it was when they had a pet. When somebody says something, she makes them explains the reason.
6)Eliciting performance: When somebody says some word, she makes them to explain their reasons. For example one student says ''time'' to be written under the minus part and she want him to explain what he means with it. She want them to think more and come up with ideas, so that sometimes she gives clues to them. When no answer comes , she tells them to images how it would be, what challenges or good thing they would have if they owned a pet.
7)Providing feedback: Everytime when a student come up with a word to be written on the board, for example she say yes, it is so because.... and she first writes the words said by her other students on the board and then explain it to the whole class.
8)Assessing performance: The teacher is relax and the atmosphere in the classrom is friendly. The student makes jokes about their topic and the teacher responds them and also she herself makes fun of with words said. She reinforces her students to talk and gives possitive responds to their ideas. She smiles all the time.(Maybe that sound not good, but you can see that the teacher is not pretending but she is honest in that)
The lesson was good and informative. The students were foreigners. And they were learning English as a second language not a foreign language so that only the target language was used in explainations, it was useful for the students. The teacher sometimes used her mimics to make explainations. Yes, the lesson was really informative for the students, they made brainstorming and learned about the contorversial issuses in America(the country in which they live). The start of the lesson I mean the warm up was good and the teacher was successful in making connection between the topic and the warm up. However the introduction was wrong. What I mean is that the teacher said that they would have a debate but it was not a debate at all. It was just a brainstorming about the topic. The teachers presented the controversial issues and explained it. The student thought and come up with the ideas in the pet activity part. So, I guess she shouldnt have said so. All in all, it was a speaking class and the teacher was good at it. She encouraged the student well and tried to involve each one of them.
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