My lesson at Seminaarin Koulu

27.03.14

I conducted a lesson at grade 6 and showed Presentation about Kazakhstan at grade 5. 

Grade 6

9 students

Theme:  countries, sports

Aim: introduce Kazakhstan to Finnish students, give some info about Canada, England.

The lesson went well, students were interested, active, did everything quickly only some students were slow and could not say Kazakhstan.

1) I showed ppt presentation and video about RK.

2) questions

3) group work. Match info about RofK, Canada and England with pictures. Students we're passionate to do it.

4) stick them on poster and decorate it.

5) prepare presentation of poster. Every member should speak.

6) presentation. Everybody listened to each other. But students talked very quietly and some students didn't hear. 

7) did a comprehension test, gave feedback: smile, neutral, sad face.

Assessment: formative

Some Students have heard about R of K thanks to London Olympiad, one student's uncle went to Astana.

There were 3 students in each group. The students’ levels of the English language proficiency were different but it wasn’t a matter for them. Stronger students helped weaker ones. Every student took part in group discussion, presentation.

I tried to make a lesson communicative, used individual approach. It was practical lesson where students improved their skills to read, speak, communicate. Groups had to speak about their country and make others know about it. I told them it but during presentation some students were shy, and spoke in a very low voice that it was difficult to hear for other students. That is why some new information, especially about Canada, wasn’t understood by other students. May be it’s my fault: if I had known that they spoke so I would have asked others to come to whiteboard and listen to a speaker in a close distance.

As test showed students understood the theme well: 4 students answered without any mistakes, five students had one mistake out of 5. Almost everybody drew a smile, only 3 drew a neutral face. To my mind it’s a good result for first time.

Grade 5    Students: 23.

I showed them only presentation about Kazakhstan. 1 student knows about RK: London Olympiad.