Michael CO #3

Listening 4A

Ryan Flemming

Thursday @2:00-2:50 P.M

Class began with an overview of what the lesson would be to allow the students get a scope of what activities they would be doing. For the first activity students had to listen to a Ted Talk with subtitles to help students get the overall scope of the video. The video was on physical therapy with a lot of movement present while talking, which I think really helped students grasp what was being said. The students watched the video a second time, but this time with no subtitles and a sheet of paper having the dialogue from the video. This was an activity where students had to highlight the most important sentences in the Ted Talk. The class talked about what the functions of the highlighted sentences were. This helped students understand patterns of speech and how to listen to the most important parts of speech for comprehension. After discussion, students took notes while watching a video about traditions and customs. The video was slowed down so students could more easily take notes as it is hard to both figure out what is being said and writing notes. A comprehension check was made halfway and at the end, with both of these breaks from the video supplemented by group conversations about their notes. In this class students were interested in the topics and seemed to have fun!