Video Journal

Lesson
  1. Class: 38 students of 2-6 in HSHS
  2. Date: April 20th, 2006
  3. Textbook: Unicorn English II p/b BUNEIDO
  4. Allotment: Part 2 of Lesson 5
  5. Lesson objectives
    1. To let students the understanding the following sentene structure: Otherwise I would have thrown it out. Students will consider the paraphrase of "otherwise".
    2. To understand the way the auther stared studying at school when he was 98.
  6. Teaching objectives
    1. To make the speed and steadiness coexist in the lesson: Since this is the third lesson in this semester, I will speed up the procedure, but at the same time, I will try not to hurry, so that students can feel relaxed.
    2. To use activities that I have not used in the previous lesson.
  7. Outline of the procedure
    1. 5min. Vocabulary Quiz by columns and rows.
    2. 5min. Question and answer time.
    3. 10min. Checking the meaning of each sentences by recasting.
    4. 5min. Aural reading by read and lookup.
    5. 10min. Checking the expressions and grammar in today's passage.
    6. 5min. Parallel reading in pairs.
    7. 5min. Questionnaire
  8. Post-class reflections

As for the lesson objectives, I could take enough time to let students think about the meaning of "otherwise" through paraphrasing. Besides, I could give them a chance to guess the other's feeling about going to school, in the qestion and answer session.
As for teaching objectives, I succeeded in not being in a hurry in explanation, but I felt that the balance of speed and steadiness was very difficult. I took too much time for explanation, say 15 minutes. I want to finish it within 10 minutes.
I tried "read and lookup". It worked in that students tried to memorize the passage and say it aloud, but compared with the normal aural reading, it took more time, which I felt worsened the class atmosphere.