Emily CO #3


On Wednesday, March 6th, at 2 pm, I observed Ms. Ciapetta’s listening 1-A class. She started the class by going over why stories and story books are good to use for language learning. She also went over some difficult verbs with the students by using visible actions, such as taking off and putting her earring back on. She then gave students a list of topics, such as “what is a conversation partner?” She had one student respond as an example, and she had the class pair up and discuss their questions with each other. She then went over their answers with them. Afterwards, she gave each students a worksheet, and they had 4 minutes to fill in the blanks using the vocabulary they learned. Answers were gone over after the activity. From looking at worksheet, it seems like the students could use context clues to figure out which verb and what form belonged. The last activity was a listening activity. There was an audio recording, and the students listened to it a total of 3 times. After the first time, students got into pairs to describe what was happening in the audio recording. Students then used the Cornell method to take notes and fill in the extra information. Ms. Ciapetta went over the answers with the students and ended the lesson by going over beautiful mistakes. I felt very engaged in her class, and at times I was even participating and felt like her student! I have noticed all the instructors at CIES are very kind and approachable, and they seemed to know how to keep a lesson interesting. I aspire to be this kind of instructor! The lesson plans also seemed fairly straight forward, so there was no confusion about what was going on.

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