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WEEK 2

Last week, we talked about the role of the teacher in speaking class. I

learned that the teacher should be prompter; T gives some discrete suggestion

when Ss can not think of what to say. She should be participant. Ts participantin in role plays or speaking activities may help the activity go along. However, T

should not be dominant or do the whole activity. Moreover, she should be

feedback provider. . It doesnt mean correcting all the mistakes. Ts should give

delayed feedback or immediate feedback depending on the task type. T may

encourage self or peer correction.

Today, Glen hoca presented some speaking activities. There was an

activity I did not like. In that acitivity, T chooses a student to come to theboard an describe a picture. The rest of the Ss try to draw it. I did not like it

because Ss did not participate in activity equally. Only the S who described

picture spoke, but the others did not. Moreover, maybe some Ss may not like

drawing. During the activity, T just sat and she did not check what was going on.

She did not observce what was happening and she did not giving feedback. She

did not use any kind of pre-actvity or any warming-up activity. Her instruction

was not clear. So it was not o good speaking activity.

On the other hand, Glen hoca showed us another acitivity. In that one,

she started by showing some pictures. Then she asked questions about the

pictures. The pictures were related to creatures such as dinsaurs, monsters :D.

Then she talked about questions for descriptions such as; what does it look

like, What shape ..? , What color .. etc. And she also talked about

word/ phrases for descriptions such as; gren colored, big headed, five legged

etc. After that she passed to the speaking activity. Firstly, she asked who likes

drawing. Six students raised their arms. Then she divided class into groups of 4or 5. there were six groups. She distrubuted those 6 students who wanted to

draw to the each group. After that, she gave some role cards to each S in

groups. The S who likes drawing was a journalist. The rest of them local people

who claimed to saw the Van lake monster. The journalist went to Van to

interview with those people. Journalist asked questions about monster by using

the questions for descriptions that they talked before. The local ones who saw

the monster described the part of monster body (tail.leg, head, arm etc.) by

using word/ phrases for descriptions. The journalist tried to draw the monster

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according to descriptions of local people. After finishing drawing, Glen hoca

hung up those drawing to the board, so we saw other groups drawings. Lastly,she

gave a homework. As a homework, Ss will ask some people whether they heard

any monster story or not. According to answers Ss will write a short paragraph.

That speaking activity was really a good one because T used a pre-activity to

elicit the topic. Speaking activity was related to the topic and it had a fuction

( to use questions for descriptions and word/phrases for descriptions). Ss

participated in it equally. The role cards were prepared well, they had all

informations Ss need. Moreover, T gave a homework as a post activity to

practice the fuction and improve writing. It was totally a good speaking activity

and I suppose I will use it in my class in the future.