FSU TEFL 120 Certificate Course Fall 2, 2020

Date/Time: 12/14,  2:00 - 3:00  Halimah Alnakhli Location: Zoom Meeting Topic Discussed:  Narrative Tenses: Past Simple, Past Continuous, and Past Perfect For this lesson, I prepared multiple activities to continue teaching verb tenses. We did a quick recap on the narrative tenses: Past Simple, Past Continuous, and Past Perfect. I provided examples to shown how Past Simple works in comparison with Past Continuous. I downloaded a worksheet that had her match the sentences with the correct uses of Past Continuous. Then, to put it into practice, she had to come up with five sentences using both tenses. To do that, she needed to choose some verbs from the box given. Therefore, each sentence included two verbs from the box. After this activity we moved to Past Perfect. First, we studied some sentences and decide which action happened first. After that, on the basis of the sentences from the previous task, I had her choose correct options in the rules about Past Simple and Past...

Date/Time: Halimah Alnakhli Location: Zoom Meeting Topic Discussed:  Idioms/informal language   For our last lesson, I made an agenda and began with warm-up speaking tasks. The warmup questions were -  1.       How much time do you spend on meetings at work daily/weekly?  2.       What type of meetings do you have? Are they teleconferences, online meetings, 1- on-1 meetings, kitchen meetings, stand- up meetings? Which ones are most common?  3.       How much of your day do you spend sitting? Think about your work life, commuting, and your free time? Do you think it is too much?  4.       Would you prefer to have a job in which you sit or stand and walk? Why?  I revolved the lesson around the “TED talk “Got a meeting? Take a walk” video. It speaks about how sitting affects our health and what we can do about it as mentioned on the website. The video is di...

Date/Time: Halimah Alnakhli Location: Zoom Meeting Topic Discussed:  Formal and informal language For lesson #15 I wanted to incorporate skills that would be useful to Halimah outside of this lesson. I was able to find a topic about writing effective emails, formal and informal language. Formal and informal language isn’t a topic I have previously covered and thought it could be useful to her. This email lesson has a lot of exercises to help learn about email forms, listen to some rules presented in a short video, learn some email vocabulary and practice writing emails. It looks at the structure of an email as well as distinguishes between formal and informal email style and language. First, I covered what formal and informal is. As well as using the videos to help guide and reinforce what I was teaching. I then used the worksheet given I had her divide them into two groups: formal and informal. The next exercise of this email lesson plan includes two emails (informal and formal) t...

Date/Time: 12/14,  1:00 - 2:00  Halimah Alnakhli Location: Zoom Meeting Topic Discussed:  Present Perfect recap and worksheet. Other words such as already, just, yet. In this lesson, I wanted to continue lessons on verb tenses. I have a standalone worksheet that deals with Present Perfect and other words such as already, just, yet. I took notes on the last sessions we had and Present Perfect was one of the verb tenses that she was not able to fill in the blanks or get right on the multiple-choice. I wanted to do a standalone lesson on this verb tenses specifically. I want to show Halimah how to use these words in specific situations. Apart from practical tasks, I will also role-play two scenarios. The worksheet starts with a short discussion about throwing a party and things that might go wrong while doing it. Then since I am working with her and she is the only student it moves to a short dialogue that checks her ideas mentioned in the discussion. The dialogue ...

Date/Time: 12/15,  Sanghun Kim      Location: Zoom Meeting Topic Discussed: Reading/Speaking skills  For this lesson, I prepared slides and the first slide showed the agenda. The lesson incorporated both reading and speaking skills, both skills  Sanghun Kim wanted to work on. I found a word scrambler generator on the internet and I used it to scramble sentences up as a fun way to get the lesson going. I had ten questions that I asked him, that in order for him to answer correctly he had to unscramble the sentence. After this I had pulled two worksheets from a site, I found that provides free worksheets. The worksheets first checked reading comprehension. I had him read aloud the passage so I could correct any words that he didn’t understand or got stuck on. The reading passage was about a famous photograph in Paris. The true of false questions were basically like –    1.       The photograph was taken in 1838 TF 2. ...

Date/Time: 12/13,   Halimah Alnakhli Location: Zoom Meeting Topic Discussed: Recap of the learned verb tenses,  with comprehension checks  In the continuation of our verb tense lesson, I wanted to recap what I had already covered since there are twelve verb tenses. I made a slide that listed examples of all that was previously covered. What was previously covered in the earlier lessons -  Past simple, past continuous, past perfect, and past perfect continuous, present perfect, and present perfect continuous. As mentioned, before I learned how to give the student control of the screen with allowance to type in the correct answers. I made a fill in the blank worksheet on a word doc that mixed the verb tenses up to see if she remembered them. She did okay but had to leave some of them blank because it was confusing. I noted that maybe I should have prepared a quiz after each set instead of having a quiz over so many at one time. I left time in the lesson plan to cover t...