Frankie CO #1

On Monday I had the opportunity to observe Mr. Wilson's grammar class. I found this experience to be quite elucidating in regard particularly to the rate of teaching. It was interesting to see how quickly time passes when engaged in covering topics that aren't quite familiar with non-native speakers. Firstly, the class began with the first item on the agenda with a warm-up, to entice the pupils into thinking grammatically. Next, a brief follow up on last week's lesson which contained partly the information that was to be quizzed on the subsequent agenda item. This consisted the first half of the course that essentially was a warm up, while the remaining agenda items followed a deductive schema, where Mr. Wilson introduced the present perfect and then gave sentences as examples, and finally the activity providing the context in which the tense is used. He was able to simultaneously conduct the activity while also introducing the final agenda item, past participles, as the activity required speaking, which in itself necessitates many components of grammar, of which were past participles. In a sense, the activity acted dually as a deductive type for present perfect, and inductive for the past participles.