Last Thursday, September 25, I had the pleasure of observing Ryan Fleming's Group 2 listening class. Somewhat unfortunately, the class had a midterm quiz this same day. Ryan, however, was nice enough to give me my own copy of the quiz. All of the questions were based on previous reading and listening materials about cleaning up debris in space, or "space junk," and the SETI program (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence).
The first part of the quiz had eight vocabulary words for the students to define. Next were two true/false statements. Then there were five short answer questions. Finally, and most interestingly to me, there were two paraphrasing questions, where students were given a short sentence and told to paraphrase, or rewrite, it.
Luckily, the quiz only took 25 minutes, so I was able to observe some actual classroom instruction. Ryan had a listening activity prepared that revolved around movies. First, the students broke up into small groups of two or three and worked on some questions from their textbooks. In the activity, the students were presented with some words/phrases to try to define. Next, Ryan had the class listen to a short video where all these words or phrases were used. I thought this was a good activity because it required the students to attempt to define the words/phrases themselves, but then they were also shown how the words/phrases were used in context. The video was news report about the latest Hunger Games movie. I think movies are a good topic to teach around because everyone likes movies and they offer an easy way to introduce some American culture to the class.
Harrison
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