Teacher: Leslie Wagner
Topic: Grammar
Level: 4A
I previously observed Ms. Wagner's class for the listening, and I wanted to see how they taught the subjects differently. The professor started the class with a new phrase ("give away"- meaning betray or reveal; or separated) and asked the students to write their own sentence with the phrase. Then, the students were asked to correct their own errors from the previous day's discussion about collectivistic and individualistic countries. The professor then went around and answered their questions. After all questions were answered, a video from "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" was showed to show an example of a collectivistic country. Using appropriate past verbs, the students in small groups were asked to describe what happened in the video while also using the cultural terms that were previously learned. The teacher went around and listened to the students talking. Then the whole class discussed their answers. A quiz was up next, with two parts. First was an error correction, and the next was writing with focus on adjective clauses and reduced adjective clauses.
I noticed that the error correction on the quiz was VERY DIFFICULT. I couldn't positively answer 4 of the 6 answers, and had to guess what was wrong. This surprised me a lot and I realized that I did not know grammar well.
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