[3-1-1]輔導員公開課 Teaching Demonstration Filming Project of NCUE: Superlatives and Simple Past

It's been the second time to work with The College of Extension Education of National Changhua University of Education, NCUE, on this filming project for my third and fourth English teaching videos. The main idea is that English teachers can learn and benefit from the videos of this project online as part of the in-service training program of the Ministry of Education. These two dedicated videos of "Superlatives" and "Simple Past" were demonstrated with a variety of activities based on the principles of Task Based Learning, which emphasizing the meaningful application of the language in a context.

Activities like discussion, dictation, prediction, phrase match, board game, and graphic organizers were introduced to help students comprehend the text and grasp the main idea better. Students were actively engaged in those tasks that required them to perform their language skills collaboratively instead of only focusing on those mechanical drills in the textbook. On top of that, to embody the main idea of Flipped Classroom, I made a video of how to use simple past with screen capture software, Open Broadcaster System, so that students can watch it at their own learning pace.

Teaching Demonstration with TBL and Cooperative Learning at KMJH

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臺中市國教輔導團國中英語輔導員

臺中市立光明國中英語科專任教師

李國禎

This class is aimed at demonstrating how incorporating reading tasks with Tasked Based Leaning and some Cooperative Learning techniques can help motivate and engage most of the students in terms of reading comprehension strategies.

I. Pre-Task

Objective 1: With the pictures of five national flags shown on the PPT slide, students are able to discuss what they might have in common with each other and write it down on the boards collaboratively. 

Activity 1: Discussion

Assessment 1: Observation

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Objective 2: With three sentences read by the teacher, students are able to write them down correctly on the boards.

Activity 2: Dictation

Assessment 2: Observation

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Objective 3: With the sentences from the text, students are able to make predictions about what may be the best title of the text and write it down on the mini whiteboard with valid reasons.

Activity 3: Prediction

Assessment 3: Oral Report Rubrics

II. Main Task

Objective4: With PPT slides containing key words from the text, students are able to identify irrelevent words correctly by hammering them based on their previous predictions.

Activity4: Hammer it

Assessment 4: Observation

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Objective 5: With a deck of cards of Phrase Match, students are able to match them collaboratively and correctly.

Activity 5: Phrase Match

Assessment 5: Check List & Observation

III. Post-Task

Objective 6: With the complete text at hand, students are able to create a mind map collaboratively to summarize the given reading material.

Activity 6: Mind Mapping

Assessment 6: Rubrics for mind map

IV. Teaching Procedures

1. Greeting, introducing the topic, rewarding system and what we’re going to achieve today (3mins)

2. Discussuion (3mins)

3. Dictation (5 mins)

4. Making predictions with the mini whiteboards (3mins)

5. Hammer it (3mins)

6. Phrase Match (10mins)

8. Mind Mapping (15 mins)

Teaching Demonstration with TBL and Cooperative Learning at KMJH

Simple Past

臺中市國教輔導團國中英語輔導員

臺中市立光明國中英語科專任教師

李國禎

This class is aimed at demonstrating how incorporating intriguing tasks with Tasked Based Leaning and some Cooperative Learning techniques can help motivate and engage students to master simple past. 

I. Pre-Task

Objective 1: With the video about the use of simple past made by the presenter, students are able to fully comprehend and grasp the idea of how to use simple past properly.   

Activity 1: Watching the Video

Assessment 1: Observation, Q & A

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Objective 2: With the worksheet of “Because You Loved Me” targeting simple past (http://busyteacher.org/19408-because-you-loved-me-celine-dion.html), students are able to fill in the blanks of lyrics and review important past tense verbs out of it.  

Activity 2: Filling in the Blanks

Assessment 2: Observation

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Objective 3: With the song, Because You Loved Me (https://youtu.be/ypgVc9cC-Jc), played twice, students are able to get the correct answers using their listening skills.   

Activity 3: Listening Comprehension

Assessment 3: Observation

II. Main Task

Objective 4: With each group of four given a set of time expression cards and verb cards, students then take it in turns to turn over a time expression card and make a true past simple sentence about themselves using one of their verb cards and the time expression.  

Activity4: Board Game of Simple Past (In the Past http://www.teach-this.com/images/resources/in-the-past.pdf)

Assessment 4: Observation, Check List, Oral Rubrics

III. Post-Task

Objective 5: With the learning together technique, students are able to review all the important ideas about simple past collaboratively and answer the questions on the quiz individually.  

Activity 5: Simple Past Exercises

Assessment 5: Observation, Check List

IV. Teaching Procedures

1. Greeting, introducing the topic, rewarding system and what we’re going to achieve today (3mins)

2. Watching the video (7mins)

3. Q & A (3 mins)

4. Because You Loved Me (10 mins)

5.Board Game of Simple Past (15mins)

6. Simple Past Exerciese (5 mins)

7. Wrap-up (2 mins)

Put the verbs into their right past form. Then listen to the music and check if you were right.

http://busyteacher.org/19408-because-you-loved-me-celine-dion.html

Because You Loved Me

Céline Dion

For all those times you _______ (stand) by me
For all the truth that you _______(make) me see
For all the joy you __________(bring) to my life
For all the wrong that you ________(make) right
For every dream you ________(make)  come true
For all the love I _________(find) in you, I'll be forever thankful, baby
You're the one who held me up
Never let me fall
You're the one who ________(see) me through, through it all

You ______(be)   my strength when I ______(be) weak
You ______(be)  my voice when I couldn't speak
You ______(be)  my eyes when I couldn't see
You _______(see) the best there ______(be)   in me
______(Lift) me up when I couldn't reach
You ________(give) me faith, 'coz you ____________(believe)
I'm everything I'm, because you _______(love) me

You ________(give)  me wings and _____(make) me fly
You _______(touch) my hand I _____(can) touch the sky
I ________(lose) my faith, you _____(give) it back to me
You ________(say) no star ______(be)   out of reach
You ________(stand) by me and I ________(stand)  tall
I ________(have) your love I _______(have) it all
I'm grateful for each day you _________(give) me
Maybe I don't know that much, but I know this much is true
I ______(be)    ________ (bless), because I ______(be)    ________(love) by you

You ______(be)  my strength when I ______(be)   weak
You ______(be)   my voice when I couldn't speak
You ______(be)   my eyes when I couldn't see
You ________ (see) the best there ______(be)   in me
______(Lift) me up when I couldn't reach
You ________(give) me faith, 'coz you ____________(believe)
I'm everything I'm, because you _______(love) me You ______(be)   always there for me

The tender wind that ________(carry) me
A light in the dark shining your love into my life
You've been my inspiration
Through the lies, you ______(be)   the truth
My world is a better place because of you

You ______(be)   my strength when I ______(be) weak
You ______(be)  my voice when I couldn't speak
You ______(be)  my eyes when I couldn't see
You _______(see) the best there ______(be)   in me
______(Lift) me up when I couldn't reach
You ________(give) me faith, 'coz you ____________(believe)
I'm everything I'm, because you _______(love) me

You ______(be)   my strength when I ______(be) weak
You ______(be)  my voice when I couldn't speak
You ______(be)  my eyes when I couldn't see
You _______(see) the best there ______(be)   in me
______(Lift) me up when I couldn't reach
You ________(give) me faith, 'coz you ____________(believe)
I'm everything I'm, because you _______(love) me

11.Wrap-up (3 mins)