Grammar+LP+by+Burcu+Güner+and+Esra+İdil

Comments:

Hülya ERGÜN

====First of all your lesson was really colorful and useful in Elt context. Your aim is to teach possesives inductively. It is a hard and exhausting job. As you need to find various activies for lesson and adapt them in terms of your aim. ın your lesson plan there are various activities refering different skills which i think is one of strenghts of your lesson plan. Refering differen skills means refering different intelligences and learning styles. One student may not get the idea while reading but in speaking he/she can comprehend what is going on. The other strenght of you lesson plan is there are various activies in it. I think it is a better chance for students to get the structure. As it is a inductive grammar teaching, the more activity the more understanding tof the structure. The other thing about your lesson plan is that choosing you materials froma current trend ' the Simpsons'. Many of your students may not be familiar with this Tv series but they can get any information about it after lesson. It is also a familiar issue for them because it is about a family. It is familiar and concrete.==== ====When it comes to weaknesses of your lesson plan is that there is no opportunity for students to focus on meaning. I think,they ,themselves, can not understand the meaning and function of the grammar that's why you should put some focus on the meaning and fuction rather than wanting students to get the meaning. Of course gramatical accuracy and precision is important in terms of structure but meaning and fuction has also place in language.====

To sum up, i really like you lesson plan and i think it is really useful in the concept.
Fatih KIZILKAYA I think the simpson’s family theme that is used in the lesson plan to teach the grammar point is very good choice and it fits the content as well. Since most people know about the Simpsons, students will be interested in the lesson and will be willing to participate. The visuals used in the lesson are also bright, colorful and in good quality which is important in focusing attention in the lesson. The materials used in the lesson are related to the grammar point anda re well supported with the activities. I think the age is also more or less suitable, perhaps 12-13 would be a better choice. The activities are well linked. Overall, I think it is a good lesson plan, and students will benefit from it.

Alp Kaan KILINÇ

I liked the way you taught the grammar subject. The use of visuals were quite efficient for young learners. The starting point to the lesson was good (Writing what you know / what you want to know) but as you didn't use what you wrote there later, there was not a connection to that activity. Simpsons is an enjoyable topic and i liked it. I am sure the children will like it more. Also, you used concrete things like posters to teach grammar and even on hand-outs, there were pictures. This is both fun and important for young learners as they will have difficulty with abstract things like grammar rules. Moreover, your teaching based-on a context was succesful and the text was quite appropriate for students' level. However, i think it was not necessary to mention the title of what they learnt. I mean, you may have preferred not to mention the concept "possessive adjectives" as the learners are young learners. After all, i liked your presentation, your way of teaching, the use of visuals and topic.

COMMENT ON GRAMMAR PRESENTATION BURCU GÜNER-ESRA İDİL  I found the micro-teaching focusing on grammar effective. Two successful aspects of the presentation I observed are the followings. First of all, students-teachers used inductive teaching with a content to teach a specific grammar topic. Directly giving rules (deductive teaching) is challenging for learners, especially young learners. The young learners cannot deal with abstract things at the very early age; therefore, teaching grammar to young learners should be generally content-based. In the presentation, the student-teachers made the students come up with the rule, which is effective. The other successful aspect in the presentation was true- false activity. It is appropriate for the students and topic of the course (possessive adjectives).  There is one thing that can be improved in the presentation. It is the warm up activity. Teacher asked and wrote by one by what students know about the “Simpsons” and want to know about them on board. After that, the teacher did not come back to the activity and did not anything about it. It would be better if the students made something with the writings on the board in the post teaching part. After all, the student-teachers did variety of activities, had clear pronunciation, used visuals appropriately and used English accurately. In addition, the stages of the lesson were clear and the materials were appropriately paced, which is effective and efficient. Seher Selli