Before the teaching

It’s always an uneasy job for me to open my class to others, let alone to nearly 30 experienced English teachers in Hsinchu city. To get progress, peer observation is a direct and effective way to reach the goal. So there is no excuse to say “NO” but to take the challenge! I’m very lucky to be a member of the” Hsinchu City English Consulting Team” and benefit a lot from my teammates’ good ideas in teaching. Through brainstorming meetings, we worked out some practical and interesting ways of teaching for the teaching demonstration together. The process of lesson plan preparation makes me realize the importance of support from peer groups.

During the teaching
Here is the lesson plan of my teaching:

Teaching Unit	U4 (Day 4)
Teaching Objects	Grade 5 students (506)
Vocabulary	cooking/singing/painting/studying/sleeping/jogging/swimming
Sentence Patterns	1. What are you (we/they) doing? is he(she/it) 2. I’m They’re　　 cooking. He’s/She’s
Student Experience	Learned the vocabulary and sentence patterns
Teaching Goal
Step	Teaching contents	time
Warm Up	1. Review vocabulary and sentence patterns -Teacher draws a picture and asks Ss “What is he/she doing?” -Whoever answers correctly gets praise. 2. Make a sentence with “ WordItOut ”! -“ WordItOut “ is the word cloud generator that gives you control with many custom settings. https://worditout.com/ -Show all the vocabulary of this lesson on screen and ask Ss to make sentences with these words they see. -Encourage Ss to make crazy sentences like: My sister is cooking in the living room.	8
Main Teaching	【reading on p.64】 1. T gives popsicles to each team and asks Ss to help each other to read sentences on them. 2. Ss discuss the sentences on sticks and put them in order. 3.One student from each team comes out to write the order of the sentences (with numbers) and T asks Ss to make comparison with different orders. 4. T shows the picture of p.64 and asks: “Who are they? Where are they? What are they doing?” 5. Ss read the paragraph and finish the exercise on the page.	3 3 10 3 2
Practice	【worksheet practice】 1. T demos the finished worksheet 2. Team discussion	2 3
Wrap Up	1. Show the PPT to introduce the slang“ It’s sleeping like a log ”. 2. show the video of the slang.	6
Homework	U4 worksheet

This worksheet is the practice of what students have learned in the lesson.

After the teaching
Though the teaching part took me the most time to prepare, however, the discussion after teaching is the main role in the task. I appreciate the feedbacks from class observers and all the ideas are motives for me to revise my future teaching. “Unity is strength”, I do gather a lot strength from this task!!