At the beginning of class, Kyle announced that there would be a quiz on what they had learn the previous day in class and facilitated an interactive review engaging individual members of the class and allowing them to answer questions referring to gerunds and infinitives. One thing I noticed immediately was his constant use of jokes to engage the class and to lighten the mood of the activity while still giving positive feedback to students for correct answers. Kyle has a very sarcastic sense of humor, and while I think it may have been lost in translation if the class was a lower level, it was an interesting subjective lesson in recognizing humor in English that the class was still able to discern.
Kyle handed out the quiz, making sure to remind students that quizzes are not meant to be viewed as a form of punishment but as a reward to help them gauge their improvements. Afterwards he reviewed some of the answers to questions on the quiz and encouraged the class for showing competency, letting them know that while there is definitely a lot more to work on, they are showing improvement and they should not be discouraged if they do not master the concepts immediately.
For most of the remaining class period, the students participated in group activities, explaining to their partners in conversation their responses to such questions as "what would you like to do or experience while you are in America?" while using infinitives.
During the last 5 minutes of class, Kyle acknowledged the desire of the class to learn new vocab and assigned a personal project to create a gloss with weekly words that they would define and use in a sentence. Each student would be responsible for 10 new words every week, 5 of which had to follow a weekly theme like “complex prepositions.”
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