Reading Vacancy Announcement
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Description of Video
This video by Betendra Kumar
Dahal is about reading vacancy announcement for the students of secondary level.
This video consists of vocabularies used in vacancy
announcement/advertisement/wanted along with the easiest ways of writing short
answers to the questions with proper form of model question.
Using Pair Discussion Technique in Classroom: A Reflective Essay by an English Teacher
I have been teaching English to the students from elementary level to bachelor level. This reflective essay is based on the class that I taught in Sainik Awasiya Mahavidyalaya which is run funded by Nepal Army Welfare Fund. In the mentioned class, my target of the class was to teach the students in communicative approach integrating ICT to the students of grade 10 in which there were altogether 32 students. The students were mixed in terms of race, and their nationality and the first language spoken is same i.e. Nepali. The class consists of 80 minutes. My primary learning objectives for this lesson were to make the learners enable to ask for the preferences and to make the learners able to express their preferences.
First, I designed the possible activities for this lesson then sort out 3 activities including a language game. Although I hoped I could teach this lesson well, I felt prepared to run the class in effective way. The research questions I have concerning the English language teaching (ELT) field or as part of my own reflective practice related to this lessons were: “Do the student have better understanding about expressing preferences?” “How can the students learn better to express their preferences?” “Do the students enjoy technology in English class?” These research questions guided me to make effective teaching.
I organized the classroom perfectly well. The desks and
chairs were arranged in 8 rows and 4 columns; they were later changed in
pattern while doing pair discussion. The pictures of fruits, sports, travelling
scenes and so on were on the walls for the purpose. There was a chart of code
of conduct on the wall, I also displayed via screen as well. More than that, I
did not have to use any other disciplinary strategies. I mostly used the regular
routines.
In the beginning of the class, I played an audio and made
the students note the speakers’ preferences. I linked the lesson to previous
learning. The previous lesson was to talk about their personal experiences. I
revised the previous lesson, and linked the new lesson by making them select
their preferences among their experiences. From the point of view of students’
engagement in learning from the beginning, I could generate the students’
interest in learning. This activity helped the students warm up before entering
into the content.
I demonstrated a short video clip regarding asking for and
expressing preferences. The students enjoyed and learned how they could express
their preferences. Then, the whole class involved in discussion along with the
teacher. I promptly inquired to some students about their understanding about
the video clip. All of them responded as they knew the way of asking for and
expressing their preferences. Later, the students were fragmented into pairs
where they did rehearsal for expressing their preferences, and then they got
time for presenting turn by turn. One of the members of pair shared their
common preferences. Then, the students were provided worksheet having
incomplete information like Do you prefer….? Do you like ….? I prefer …., I
like ……., I love …….. At last, some of the students were randomly asked to read
out their answers.
I have used textbook, a video containing expressing
preferences from Youtube, computers, handouts, authentic materials, pictures,
whiteboard and overhead projector as means of teaching and learning materials.
Among them video made the students learn more about how to express preferences.
It consisted of dialogue of two friends; they were expressing their
preferences, each other.
I asked the students’ what they preferred for and I also
shared my preferences to make teacher-student interaction and I engaged the
students in pair to make the student-student interaction. One of the member in
each pair asked preferences and another replied with expressing preferences. It
became vice versa again. This made the classroom more interactive and all the
students got opportunity with their active participation in learning.
I checked for understanding by asking the students tell
their preferences and gave some written questions for assessment. Most of all
students understood. For some students who didn’t understand, I again repeated
the procedure with gap-fill activity to help them. As more students learned
easily, I gave positive reinforcement to them, previously, I asked to tell
their preferences and later yes/no questions to make them learn with
confidence.
Employing Pair work activity in the classroom and Integrating
ICT worked well during my lesson because students got more time for rehearsal
and practice which enabled them sharp in the subject matter visualizing how the
people ask and respond. I could employ discussion, demonstration, audio-visual
presentation, individual work, guided practice and pair work integrating ICT. My
students felt comfortable talking with their friends each other in pair. Both
techniques discouraged the students become passive in the class how they used
to do earlier. All students got opportunity to speak in the classroom which
made better interaction in the classroom. However, I might have divided the
students into small groups as well to make the students learn better because
they could get more ideas from more friends. The most meaningful learning
experience for me from this lesson was that if we give more time to the
students for rehearsal and practice, they learn better than making the students
passive in the classroom. Moreover, this teaching experience has shown me that
I particularly need to watch out for or improve in my teaching. I must engage
the students more time making them in pair and group rigorously to enhance
their learning ability and concentration in learning.
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