Marina - CO 2

Last Monday I observed Felicia's listening class for intermediate-advanced students. As soon as the class started, she wrote down objectives on the board and began to review material from last class after she handed out the graded quizzes. She asked the students if they had any questions or wanted to go over any material.

She then handed out the textbooks and asked the student to turn to the section of their new topic about business crimes. I really like how she warmed up the class by asking pre-listening questions such as "Do you know any cases of corporate crimes?If so, what are they? What happened?" and had students first discuss those in groups and then out loud as a class. The students then read the passage about a case of corporate crime and answered the comprehension questions in groups and then went over them as a class.

There was a lot of student-student and instructor-student interaction throughout the whole time, which I think reinforced everyone's understanding of the topic. Felicia did a good job at keeping the class active (since it was scheduled after lunch) by speaking louder, making more casual conversation with students, and asking questions that she did not know to students about businesses.

Although they ran out of time, the following class Felicia told the students to be prepared to listen to the passage that they read and answer comprehension questions based on it.