Assignment 12 ★ July 3 , 2005

Reflection on Team Y's lesson
Good points of their resson
・ They could exploit the textbook well . Their introduction and short play based on the dialogue of the textbook . I found that it is possible for us to do lessons without making many handouts or charts . Many of groups were forgetting to exploit the textbook , and we tried to make something new , so we took much time to prepare the class . We learned many points of teaching grammer , so we tended to forget to use textbook effectively . Next time , I want to try to use the textbook more usefully .
・ Their warm up was very good !! Team A's lesson and Team Y's lesson were related , so it was important to confirm his knowledge and prepare before teaching the new materials . What is more , they could imply the content of their lesson in their introduction , so the introduction had aspects of both confirmnation and notice . ・ When they read the dialogue of textbook , they tried to use Backward Build-up Drill . It is difficult to read for beginners to read a long line of the dialogue , so I thought this method was effective .
The points they might try doing differently in the future
・ I thought they should take the time to practice new words and dialogue . It is hard for beginner to remember how to pronounce and the meaning of the words within such a short time .
・ He confused the difference between he and she when he did check test . Teachers taught the meaning of new word in Japanese , so we thought that he could understand the meaning , but he could not understand the difference . I thought it is important to confirm beginner's understanding . They might try using students as examples or talking about familiar topics .
ex) He is my father . He is Mr. Koizumi .
She is my mother . She is Ms . Aiko .
She is Yuka / Yukiko . (As point girls)
He is Taku / kyounowanko . (As point boys)

Assignment 11 ★ July 2 , 2005

Reflection on Team KMKM's lesson
☆Greeting☆
☆Introduction☆
・ We tried to say something that students can understand to warm up , using map , pictures , name cards . But introduction is difficult for him . (?) I realized that he could understand our name and home , but he could hardly undertand about age . However , I think we could get student's interest about new material , and use student's imagination and ability to guess the material .
☆Goal☆
・ We spoke today's goal too quickly . Maybe he could hardly understand what he is going to learn today . We should speak more slowly and comfirm his understanding .
・ I thought that our goal was too difficult for beginners to get over . We might demand too many things . He is real beginner of English , so to ask name and age and telephone number mey be really diffiult for him . We should think from bigginer's point of view .
☆Practice(Number)☆
・ We should practice more slowly , and we should take more time to practice with his partner or group . He could say with other students , but he could not say numbers by himself . It took time to remember how to say numbers . We should wait until he can remember , otherwise he will be unable to do interview smoothy .
☆Short play☆
・ When we did short play , we spoke too quickly . So I thought it was hard for him to understand the content of our short play . We should repeat the dialogue . Our good points of short play are to use our body , change our voice , use real character . And we did same pattern of conversation three times . Maybe junior high school students will be interested in this short play .
☆Practice(Key words)
・ We should practice more . We should practice with not only all class members but also his partner or group . He needed more time to master and remember the thress sentences .
☆Interview☆
・ We tried to mix writing , apeaking , reading , listening , I thought our idea of interview was very good . Because this activity has aspects of both real and drill , and students could produce language with meaning and other members could attend to the message . But we should take more time to do this activity , because he could not ask all of his group members .
☆Check test☆
・We also tried to mix four skills . Check tesk was balanced well . When we check the answer , we should do repetitions and confirm their knowledge . We could celebrate one of our member's birthday !! Congratulation !!!
☆Greeting☆

I remembered my first Spanish lesson . I was nervous at first , because I hardly understood what thacher was speaking . I had both hopes and fears , but fears were much bigger than hopes . I thought he will have same feeling with me . The hurdle which we have to get over to learn something new is very very high , it is beyond our expectations . I really remembered and the feeling of students who try to study somethig new . I want to think about the feeling of beginner , and plan the lesson next time .