Michelle CO #2

My second class observation was for a speaking class on 5/16/18 from 1-1:50 pm with another group of 2A students. I did not make note of the professor’s name, but we spoke after class and he mentioned this would be his last semester teaching at CIES because he was beginning a master’s program in France this summer. He began class by taking attendance and writing out the agenda for the session. I noticed how he very much spoke slowly and clearly enunciated his words to help students better understand him. The focus of this class was how to correctly use idioms. The professor used a PowerPoint presentation with illustrations/pictures of each idiom example he provided. I believe this helped students quite a bit as idioms can be difficult to explain with just words. When students still had questions, he was able to give examples in a number of ways (using the idioms in different contexts). He also asked students a lot of questions to be sure they truly understood the main points of his lesson. Students were put in groups for the second activity and were given a situation and a word bank that they had to utilize in their role playing. The professor evaluated their understanding by how accurate their grammar and idiom usage was.