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Grammar - Group 1 (Beginner) - Dr. Felicia Ciappetta

Date/Time: July 2nd, 10:00 AM - 10:50 AM
Topic/Skill: Simple sentence structure/Grammar, listening, and writing


Summary: Class started with the teacher prompting students to exchange introductions with the class observers. The task for this class was to interview different people, including the class observers, using a template. The students asked us simple questions about ourselves and our daily routines, such as, "What is your name? What are 5 things you do every day?" They wrote down our responses in a Google Doc and constructed sentences based on our answers. The Google Doc was shared with the professor and acted as a method for providing immediate feedback and evaluation of their writing.


Once the interviews were over, the teacher asked the interview questions again for the students to answer and confirm. There were some written answers that were incorrect due to spelling errors (after asking us how to spell our responses) or verb-tense agreement errors. When the students read their incorrect sentences back, she audibly paused to question whether that was constructed correctly. The students had notes on the 5 rules for English sentences, so she told students to reference the rules to make them think about their errors if they couldn’t immediately fix their errors. When the sentences were incorrect due to spelling, Dr. Ciappetta asked the students to re-ask the interview questions to us. Once they successfully corrected their errors, she praised them. After the students fixed their simple sentences, Dr. Ciappetta challenged them to combine two sentences with a conjunction, which they did successfully.


Class ended with a rapid-fire class review of the English alphabet, starting over when errors were made. Their homework was to review the alphabet. 

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