Like last time, we were chatting with students when it was time to begin class. Sarah introduced to students about our guest, Alex, which is a heads-up for students and relive their pressure from that. We had warm-up activity before reviewing passive voice, and we provided a question aimed at encouraging students to think and talk. Honestly, I think that we were kind of wasting much time on calling on students and waiting for them to respond in this activity.

Then, it’s my part of reviewing passive voice by mentioning active voice as a comparison to teach students how to turn a sentence with active voice to passive voice. After an explanation, we had practice for that, and we practice through a tool of group work. In this part, I feel that it was not well-managed. I asked students to copy and paste their answers into shared notes, but I should have a process of letting students look through and correcting it in shared notes instead of asking volunteers or nominating students directly.

The next parts are the preposition of time and place. We had a really successful engagement by asking students to type answers into the chatbox. I am glad that Sarah and me are keeping communication in private chat and becoming more flexible when facing time limitations or special issues. Sarah suggested that required students answer the question by typing rather than work as groups. The fact that students were more engaged to a certain extent.

Overall, I am super thankful that Alex gave us some valuable feedback. The point is that we need to build a good rapport with students, and they will feel freer to talk in class. Alex advised that We could come class next time early and chat with students freely and openly to build a good teacher-student relationship. Another point is that we need to change the way to nominate students to answer the questions. We will do what Alex said that making a fixed name list and put it into shared notes, so students prepare to answer or pass and each of them will be called on. Last, as to teaching content, we should make it more connected with the grammar we reviewed.