Jean CO #4

June 30th 

Ryan Flemming

Speaking Class

Group 1/2 beginner and low intermediate listening 

2:00-2:50


Mr. Ryan's lesson for the day centered mostly around a conversation between two people discussing ways to eat and live healthier. Mr. Ryan opened his lesson by having the students listen and watch a recorded conversation between two people, which was about four minutes in length, and students then turned to the students asking them some questions regarding the video. 

At first Mr. Ryan was asking some more free form questions regarding the video but noticing that the students were having some trouble following he then began using true or false questions. This change to using true or false questions worked well in allowing the students to better comprehend the question and take part in the activity.

Mr. Ryan then gave the students a fill in the blank sheet following the dialogue of the video where the students were able to practice their listening compression by filling in the blanks of the dialogue they were hearing in the video.

Overall it was interesting to see how classes with lower level students are taught and the things that the techniques that the instructor used to cater to his students level of comprehension. 

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