Elizabeth CO#3

Thursday, September 24th


On September 24th, I observed Derrick Pollock's Speaking class for Group 3. Derrick began the class by having the students introduce themselves and tell where they are from. After this, Derrick asked the class when and how to use the first conditional "if". The class offered up some examples and Derrick explained the purpose of the first conditional. He looked up a website with examples of this topic with fill in the blank for the corresponding verb phrase. Together with the class, they went over this rule. Derrick then asked the class to break up into groups and answer the question "If you could change anything about your life, what would you change?". While class was talking, Derrick walked around and listened to the students answers. The class was then asked to share some of their responses with everyone and Derrick wrote some of the answers on the board. He corrected the grammar for some of the answers he heard and gave some extra examples to help solidify the concept. Once this activity was finished, Derrick discussed the debate they were to have the next week. He explained what the students should do to prepare and what they should do to have strong debate points. To model a proper debate, Derrick played a video of middle school children debating the topic of uniforms in schools. Derrick then ended the class with a funny YouTube video of a fictional debate in an ESL class.



Elizabeth Lopez