Today we delivered our second English Conversation Club. It was quite successful because we made everyone talking and participate in our topic about the hobby. At the first, we were trying to create a warm and friendly learning environment to help students get to know us by introducing us through personal photos and information, such as name, background, and hobby. My part in this teaching process was to give instruction and nominate students to share their relevant information about themselves and their hobbies. Sarah’s part was to lead everyone to group discussion for responding to the questions we given and share with the class. For the next, Sarah should have asked the question we set for trigger students’ creating thinking about a hobby like if they are willing to recommend their hobby to the other students and why. However, Sarah called on me to take for her, I was freaked out and turned on my camera to ask students. During this section, I made some mistakes. I did not take an example by employing Sarah’s answer to let students know what they need to do at the beginning. Some students clearly were confused and they gave irrelevant answers to the question we provided. I was trying to explain by using selling points to make them understand better but I failed. What I learned from it is that we should consider students’ level and pick appropriate vocabulary and give example before we ask them to do. It’s better to explain the unfamiliar words for students, which would facilitate class going in the right direction. As for the last one, we had a conversation in private chat and decide that I was going to lead the exit tickets. We still got 15 to 20 minutes at that time and we had 8 students. I decided to do group work for buying more time. I divided students into groups for discussing what are they going to do this week for 5 mins. After bringing them back, I asked all members in groups to turn on their microphone, and introduced their teammates’ activity for this week to class crosswise. After that, they had a second round for group discussion but with different people in 5 mins. When all students got back to the classroom, I did the same thing but level up the difficulty. One person needs to introduce all their teammates not only one. Although some error messages occurred, the atmosphere was good and fun. In conclusion, I think it is significant that teachers make some rules for the classroom at the start of class. For example, students take turns to introduce themselves to class and making a name list for students to answer questions in turn.
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