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ELT CONFERENCE ( INGED )

The conference that I attented was held by INGED. Speaker talked about a lesson plan for young learners. It was a speaking lesson plan which also practiced students' grammar. And it was for twenty students classroom.

In pre-speaking part teacher shows a picture which includes a family having breakfast and she starts to talk about the picture with the students. She said the words in the picture one by one. This helped students to realize the form. After talking about the words and the picture, she gave a text which is related to the picture and she read the text herself not the students. We can think it as a context which includes what she wanted to give the students and it is an important point.

After pre speaking part, there were two people who were helping the teacher, they acted out the story together before teacher wanted students to perform the story. Then, teacher divided the class into two groups and she wanted students to act out the story. After students got ready, they acted out the story. This part according to me was structuring part. After they saw (realize) the form, they structured the form in this part.

As post speaking activity, teacher again made two groups including ten students. Each of the group had a leader in front of the group. Teacher put the pictures of the food that they covered in pre part. Then she wanted the leader student to ask a student from his/her group "can you bring me ...?" The student who was asked went and got the picture of that food. All the students did this one by one and the class ended.

This lesson plan, I think, is appropriate for age level ( young learners). Students can use their kinesthetic skills with the help of act out and post part activity. They can also use their listening and speaking skills also. Teacher first made the students realize form, then made them structure and proceduralize the form in turn. This is a good and applicable technique. And lastly, it was a really communicative lesson plan. It made students work together and communicate each other. These are strong aspects of the lesson plan according to me.

When I come to the weaknesses of the lesson, time issue may be problem. There were a variet of acitivites, of course it was good but the time limitation could be problem. If it is for two hour lesson, it is perfectly okay. Another weakness of the lesson plan according to me is the assessment part. I cannot see an explicit assessment part to understand whether students achieve the objectives of the lesson or not. There is not any feedback for the acitivites. But all in all it is useful and applicable lesson.

TUBA ASLAN