Think of a lesson that gives a chance us to remember Barış Manço :)

Date: December 5, 2014

Today, we joined the class, our lovely classroom, 10-H.

Ms. Usta asked a question to attract the students, “What did we do in last lesson?”. Two students reminded what they did in previous class.

Then, teacher gave information about the new homework about “favourite films”. One of the students interrupted the teacher by asking for explaining the homework in detail because he did not understand. (He asked in Turkish, the teacher explained the homework again in English but more simple)

Teacher continued with an exercise and she selected the students randomly to answer the questions.

There were a lot of unknown words which students wanted the teacher to explain (actually the lesson was about adjectives). And the teacher tried to explain all unknown vocabularies with English descriptions and she gave the usages in the sentences. 

Vocabulary in context

“Hilarious” means extremely funny

“dull” means boring

Explaining the difference between “boring and bored” with sentences:

(The teacher wrote two sentences which include ‘boring and bored’ on the board and she asked the srudents to find out the difference.)

Ø The film was boring.

Ø I was bored by the film.

Ø What an exhausting day!

Ø We were all exhausted at the end of the day.

There was a pair-work activity on the book but students did it together. Then “Vocabulary Builder Part” was finished.

Some time the teacher interrupted the lesson to warn the students not to leave their rubbish under the desks. (“If I see any rubbish under your desk, I will give you extra homework.”) - For effective classroom management, it is necessary to be careful while arranging classroom environment. The teacher has an important role on arranging classroom environment.

There was a reading passage about Keira Knightley. The class talked about her films and teacher promised to watch a film before the exam. (She recommended some films for watching, and gave her opinion about films containing violence: “I hate them.”)

Turning back “comparative&superlative”:

When reading the text, she asked the students underline the adjectives which are in comparative and superlative forms. (Scanning)

By the way the classroom made noise so much today. Teacher warned them “You make me tired, I won’t maket he exam easy!”.

The teacher gave extra homework (making up 10 comparative&superlative senteces) for late comers.

(Teacher generally applies the “punishment and reward theory” for obtaining authority.)

The last part of the lesson two students made their presentation, they started with asking “What is your favourite song belonging to Barış Manço?”

Yes, the presenatation was prepared to introduce Barış Manço. The girls were so excited and I felt really lucky owing to watching such a good presentation!

I will put a little part of the presentation on this page.

P.S. If you want to watch the rest of the video, you can visit my dear friend’s -Ezgi’s- blog J

For more details, please follow the link below:

http://ezgininstajgunlugu.blogspot.com.tr/2014/12/the-end-of-tiring-day.html

 *We realized that there were homework belonging to the students on the board and I want to share them with you. (Comparative and Superlative)