The lesson was quite similar to the previous one. After the Hello Song the teacher presented animals through flashcards, as she did in previous lesson (she presented 3 animals in the last lesson and she added about 6 more in this lesson). Next, children named the animals, but just those kids who knew them and finally they spent more than fifteen minutes with a colouring sheet about animals. Before ending the class they sang a song about numbers. 

I think that the lesson requires improvement because there are not any new materials or strategies. The students were no encouraged to use the language or identify vocabulary through images (especially in those cases in which is difficult to acquire the speaking ability). Children did not play, did not do physical activities during this lesson, neither the last one. The materials were songs, flashcards and a colouring sheet, as well as the previous lesson. I also observed that during the colouring activity, children did not use the language and the activity seemed not to carry any teaching purpose. I think that it would had been better that children point the animals and say them, or that they count them, or say what colour they were, etc. I consider that giving a free colouring activty is possible because children enjoy it, but not two consecutive lessons.

 

What I find useful of this lesson is that one of the materials that the group most enjoys is the song. In the latest minutes they sang a song about numbers and they were pretty enthusiastic: Counting 1 – 10 (It’s a son to count from 1 to 10 and from 10 to 1).  I only found the video: https://youtu.be/DR-cfDsHCGA but the teacher used an mp3 version).

It helped me to notice that children like songs and singing, so I know that it will be good to include songs in my future lessons. I also would add more play and physical activities since they are effective strategies which are not including so far, as I can see.

 

I choose this quotation to represent the most part of the lesson 

When they finished they sang 2 songs: Yes, No, Please, Thank You Song and What’s your name Song. 

The sequence of activities is the same as previous classes, the material are the same too and the strategies used did not changed, that way I felt I was living a deja vu. I think there was no opportunity for playing, for surprising or for using the language in a natural environment.

I consider that there are some routines that are good for children (Hello song, for example at the beginning of the lesson) to anticipate them what is coming, however what I observed, is that the all the lessons seem to have the same routine.