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Micro-teaching pt. 4

Hello! Today I will write about another lesson conducted by me in 1st grade. It was a summary of the unit about transportation. At the very beginning, we recalled all the vocabulary that appeared in this unit on flashcards, both pictures and words. Then we were drilling names, and after that, I draw a picture on the whiteboard divided between the ground, water, and air. Students were telling me the name of transportation and where does it move. It was quite fine and funny as I'm not the best at drawing but we all did our best! Then we had a time with creating riddles. Students were asking other students to guess what they are describing in the form of a question (Is it a car?). This we did in lockstep with volunteers who were ready for it. After we did it students were ready to work with their handouts. Their task was to cut out pictures of transportation and paste them into the right column. Then we summed up what goes where and there was a little bit of time for coloring in w...

Micro-teaching pt3

Hello! What wonderful weather outside! Hope you're all enjoying it :) This time I would like to write about another lesson I had the pleasure to conduct with 1st graders. It was about little red riding hood. Students had the opportunity to get to know the story before, and my task was to teach them about wolves. Another CLIL lesson :O At the very beginning, we drilled body parts and played Simon Says. My students are very into becoming Simon, So after a couple of rounds, I let them give orders to others. It was fun and hard to make them make a mistake :) They are really good at it. When we were ready to move on we drilled again, this time names of characters from the story, and I told my students that today....we are focusing on wolves! I showed them a picture of a wolf and asked them to describe it by body parts, colors, numbers, etc. They did it without any problems. Then, I showed them a presentation and we were discussing some facts about those beautiful, wild animals (I ...