School: A Nº of students: 4 out of 8
Form: 3rd Level of English: Pre-Intermediate
Length of lesson: 2 periods of 50 minutes Topic: Crime
each. Only first period observed Content: Cognates
Objective Description Subjective Description Reflection/ Improvement/Suggestion
TIME
Although she told us this always happens, she decided not to
13.10 We are in the class. The teacher told us to wait, because Today they were supposed to have a test, but only half make the exam. Perhaps if the students who are absent for the
she will be a bit late. She is in charge of the of the class attended (4 students). tests should be “punished” with a lower mark, for instance.
organization of the 25th May celebration.
13.30 T: -“OK. Sorry for the delait. Ok. In two seconds! Que Is this a kind of introduction to the topic?
lo lean, nada más. 2 minutos. It´s in Spanish.”
No introduction of the topic.
She shows sts. a poster of a Bob Marley song (Three I couldn´t understand the purpose of the poster or the
Little Birds). And a cartoon. It´s a comic of “Diogenes song.
y el Linyera”, where a millionaire is shown getting out The teacher is not clear when explaining the activities.
of his car, and telling the dog: “Good dog”, and it
answers: “En momentos asi me arrepiento de no haber They don´t seem to understand.
estudiado ingles”.
S:-“Ahhh, eso nos va a pasar a nosotros!”
It´s not clear if they´re going to make the test, an activity or
S: - “¿Qué significa Headway?”. It´s the name of the book. what.
I couldn´t hear the teacher´s answer. What did the poster have to do with the rest of the class??
T: -“Let´s finish. You were supposed to have a written Probably it would be suitable for the first class of the year.
test. Voy a pasar a la modalidad invento la nota.”
13.40 She shows them the book Headway.
T:-“Ok, Let´s open your English folder”.
She writes the title on the board: The Perfect Crime.
T:-“Is it possible the perfect crime? Why? Or why not?” One of the students translates the rest of them what the Does it help them to acquire the language? I don´t think so, but
teacher says. it probably helps to catch their attention.
Sts:-“no”.
13.45 T:-“Es cierto que los crimenes…if you commit a crime
13.50 you are condemned for that? Ok. Then you have about It´s the title of the reading. I remember because she
the perfect crime”. showed us last class and said they were going to work
on that.
T: - “Read the text. Do you remember what were
cognates? Cognates are transparent words. Son las She didn´t clean the board from what was written in the
palabras que se parecen en inglés y en castellano. morning.
14.00
T:-“Supuestamente esto ya lo vieron todo. Lo que Impossible to see the poster from the back. I guess it´s I think the students didn´t notice the poster or its relationship to
quiero es que come closer”. about verb tenses, because of some comments of the the activity they´re doing.
teacher.
A student comes in to explain why she hadn´t attended.
She calls the roll. I didn´t understand what the activity consisted on. The teacher doesn´t follow an order of activities. She interrupts
to call the roll. She doesn´t generate a working atmosphere.
She stick a poste ron the wall.
T:-“Ok. You have to be working”.
T:-“Ok. Let´s start finishing. You´re going to read”.
T:-“Ok. Let´s start reading. One sentence each. One Ah!!! They were looking for cognates!! The class is monotonous. I think the teacher should try to make
sentence each of you. No no no, you have to read. We students participate more.
are going to read and check the word underlined”.
They read sentence by sentence and say the cognates.
T:-“Then you´re going to write down some key words.
Do you know what central heating is?”
The period finished.
