Katie-CO 2

I observed another speaking class but this time it was with Vicki. She is a fun enthusiastic teacher  that gets her students attention very directly, which was impressive and seems hard to do especially in a speaking class. We did an activity that was hands-on and forced involvement. The objective was to have the students practice giving and receiving advice. They were given a problem to read and then the rest of the group was too give them advice starting with a phrase that they students pulled from a cup. For example, "My suggestion is" , "If I were you I would" and things like this. I was able to participate in a group so I gave them advice and received it .I tried to help them use these skills more conversationally and suggested less formal/less proper ways of starting a sentence of advice. I felt that I was helpful and I really enjoyed this experience. At the end of class we went and recorded ourselves giving advice. I was very impressed by the ease of the technology and realized that giving my students feedback would be quite easy.