b0502 M83-84
Video Observation Report
by Teacher Jenny Su
 b0502 M83-84
Sentences
Steps:
First, Mr. Hua introduced what a sentence is by asking the student
read the definition.
“A sentence is a group of words that tells a complete idea.” Then
he asked students to ask the question one after another and answer.
Mr. Hua not only told the students what a sentence is, he also gave
them examples to support the definition. “A teacher’s job is to
teach. A student’s job is to study.”
Then Mr. Hua introduced the 4 kinds of sentences. For each kind
of the sentences, Mr. Hua taught the definition, the appearance
of the sentence, and gave the examples.
Take “question” for example,
A sentence that asks something is a question.
A question also begins with a capital letter. It ends with a question
mark.
These are questions: Does a teacher teach? Does a student study?
Students must read each sentence very well.
Besides, when the students read the sentences, Mr. Hua also ask
the students to read with the stressed syllables.
For example, “A sentence that tells you to do something is a command.
Students should emphasize reading the syllable “do”.
In the following meeting, M84, Mr. Hua ask the students to recite
the definitions of each kind of sentences and what they look like.
All the students were asked to recite all the sentences well.
When all the students recited all the sentences, Mr. Hua then taught
a new concept of subject and predicate.
Then he gave the students sentences like:
A sentence must have a subject and a predicate.
The subject tells who or what does something.
The predicate tells what the subject does.
*Welly studies English twice a week.
He then also asked the students to emphasize the stressed syllables.
Mr. Hua then gave a sentence a new definition: “A sentence is
a group of words that tells a complete idea and that group of words
should include a subject and predicate.”
Then the students did a practice finding out whether the given
group of words was a sentence or not and the students should be
able to tell why it was/wasn’t a sentence according to the definition
that they learned.
And the students were told to tell which part of the sentence was
the subject/object and explain it.
At last, Mr. Hua recorded all the questions the answers that they
practiced in class so that the students could review and practice
at home.
About lesson planning
I’ve noticed that when there is a new idea introduced to the students,
Mr. Hua always show them the outline of the idea. So, when Mr. Hua
taught “sentence”, he gave the definitionaexamplesafour kinds of
sentencesadefinition of each kind of sentencesathe appearance of
each kind of sentencesaexamplesacheck by practicing.
The students thus have a clear diagram of sentences in their head.
They know the meaning, the appearance, the punctuation and they
can even tell whether a group of words is a sentence or not.
So, if I want to teach my students about sentences, I should first
tell them the outline of the concept and then go into the details.
Just like this:
And, an important part is to check students’ understanding. We
should give students many different exercises to check if the students
know what they have learned. They should be able to explain, that
is also a training of speaking and communication.
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