Observation of AFC1

Teacher: Mrs. Bagheri By: S. Abbas Asgari

This class (AFC1) belonged to Mrs. Bagheri with 9 students and a few absents, she came to
the class right on time. At the first of the class students asked a few common questions;
teacher started with " which page?", then she asked a few comparative questions as their
previous grammar and wanted to hear some countable and uncountable examples with
some:
-There are some apples -There is some oil
She asked the students to play the rules of waitress and customer in a restaurant, then
students opened their books and teacher asked some reviewing questions about last
session. The topic of the first task was a video story which students needed to listen, watch
and answer the questions. After watching the video, the teacher read the questions and
students answered and checked together then she played the video again and paused every
dialogue so the students could listen again, but she told most of the answers herself, then
they did the next part and she also searched ((decaf)) in the dictionary. However, she had
already told them, then teacher asked a few questions about the clip and students tried to
answer. As the next part teacher told students to say some phrases which the answers
could be congratulations Happy Birthday etc. Then they went to the next part which
seemed to be photo story or vocabulary about some famous places in the world,
"What are these pictures? What is the biggest city in Iran? What is the biggest bridge in the
world? now fill the empty places", teacher helped the students guess each place, after that
she played the audio for students, so they could check the answers together. She also
checked individually, too. Then they turned to the extra activity at the last of the book
which was about some other places, teacher gave the students two minutes to look at these
pictures and match the titles which were written beside the pictures, after a while she
asked the pronunciation before playing some of new words, then the audio was played, and
teacher made them repeat only for one time, and she asked a few more personalized
questions about their own city: Isfahan
What is the most beautiful bridge in this city?
What is the biggest post office? What is the longest street?
Then she started the grammar part by" today we talk about superlatives" we had
comparatives last session, in comparative adjectives we compare two things but in
superlatives there are more than two things to be compared. Then she gave some examples
in a chart which had three columns including: adjectives, comparative adjectives and
superlative adjectives: some of adjectives were: big long heavy healthy expensive good and
bad, she asked comparative adjectives from the students they answered: longer better and
worse, for the next column she started with an example which was:
cat is big, dog is bigger, lion is the biggest, while ((the)), ((est)) and ((the most +adj)) were
written with a different colour, the same procedure was done for the others and she made
them guess, and also emphasized on the differences which were ((the)) ,((est)) and((the
most +adj)) in the adjectives, next she went to the exceptions which were good and bad and
told the students the superlative forms, and also she made them tell some examples with
these superlatives and corrected if it was necessary. After a few questions students still had
some problems with using ((the)), they took pictures of the board and some of them didn't
draw this chart, now teacher gave some examples with some adjectives like easy and short
and asked some questions like:
What is the most beautiful flower?
What is the easiest school book? What is the most dangerous animal?
Then she told them to use these superlative adjectives for pictures and complete the charts,
she also asked them about the questions for each part: What is the most popular art gallery
in the world?
After that she played the audio and read the sentences and students checked their answers
while they were repeating too, she also made them make some questions out of these
sentences for instance:
Who is the most famous man in Iran? What is the most popular restaurant in Isfahan?
That exercise took five minutes, while she asked individually, but not in pairs. Next she
read the chart and the students repeated then they went to another page of the Extra Study,
Teacher asked one of the students to read the sentence, which was: what is the hottest
month in Iran? students answered, then she spoke about double ((t)) which is because of
the vowel sound, then she read the instructions which was about the irregular adjectives,
“now look at the last page with different places and ask about them for example what is the
longest street in Isfahan? for next session write examples about comparatives and
superlatives including those adjectives which end in ((y))” but she didn't say how many
sentences should they write . Then she started next part by asking students to read and she
corrected some mistakes but she didn't play the audio and then she made the students
complete the sentences on their own and fill in the blanks, they checked it together and she
clarified some new words. After that she started the next part which was reading with
some warm up questions like "Do you know any dangerous road in Iran ? and after that she
told the students to read the article( reading ) and answer the questions above the text,
teacher told them: try to guess the new words and just answer the questions, after 5
minutes she asked the students those questions and they answered then she asked a few
more questions about riding and good places to ride in their own city then they closed their
books and she asked the new words. At the last of the class students were supposed to
study the new words of the previous units, however only a couple of them could answer
well.
S. Abbas Asgari