Vocabulary Skill Lesson

1.Gaining Attention: This is a video lesson given through internet by a teacher. Before starting, teacher asks how his students are. He asks this question in a funny way that and doublessly it helps students to warm up. He tries not to oppress his students. By using comic mimes and gestures, he gains students' attention very well. It is one of the ways of starting a lesson I like.
2.Describing the goal: The topic of the lesson is "Slang Words". He says the letters of the word slang one by one and respectively. A sound which is thought to be students' repeats the letters. It creates an enjoyable atmosphere. Then he gives a definition of the topic. He tells what slang word is. He mentions about where it is used, what it contributes to the daily speaking and how it is important. He also says generally young people use it and it may be effective to get attention of young students.
3.Stimulating recall of Prior Knowledge: Teacher gives example of slang words. He chooses the slang words which may be used instead of the words frequently used in daily speech. He gives money and great as examples. Then he gives other slang words and explains their meanings. While describing their meanings, he uses the words students should know before the lesson. In other words he chooses the words that help students remember their prior vocabulary knowledge.
4.Present the material to be learned: At the begining of the lesson he tells what they(students) will learn at the end of the lesson. He shows a note ,for example, as a concrete material. Because of the topic, teacher has no chance to use a lot of materials. He presenting the words and then just give their meanings.
5.Provide Guidance for learning:During the whole lesson, teacher teaches the words by using gestures and mimic. He explains the words in a funny way. He is a teacher who has a sense of humour and this feature of him helps students to learn easily. He also appeals to students' eyes with the help of his funny appearance and movements.
6.Elicit Performance: In the middle of the lesson, teacher tells the commonly used slang words and their explanation one after another. He gives examples. Meanwhile, students takes the meaning of words and examples. At the end of the lesson, he finishes the lesson by using slang words. All these will help students elicit their performance because teacher gives them the meaning of words in a perfect way.
7. Provide Feedback: In the video, you can not see a giving feedback step because this is a video lesson. Unless it was not, teacher would give feedback to students by giving a daily dialogue between two people which is consisted of slang words and then he would want students to prepare a dialogue by using slang words. After they present their dialogue, teacher would give them feedback in terms of usage and pronunciation.
8.Enhance retention and transfer: He uses gestures and mimes while transfering the words and these gestures and mimes are the ones which will stick in the students' mind. His intonation also may be effective to enhance retention.
9.Assessing Performance: During the lesson, we hear background sounds such as applause or congragulation sounds. These sounds reinforce the students. They are like a teacher's saying well done to his students who succeed.