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Number 9: Teaching Journal Entry with Codes and Categories
TEACHING JOURNAL ENTRY
Lesson Plan No. 1: 1st week, 6 October 2004, 45 minutes,
5th lesson on Wednesday (1-1.45 p.m.)
Unit1: Introduction and Names
English Pronunciation (highlighted), Young learners (highlighted)
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This was the first lesson spent with the children. At the very beginning head-
master with the pupils´ previous teacher spent 5 minutes with us, they intro-
duced me to the class, then class register and list of participants were checked.
When they left, the first real lesson with the class of ten young learners began.
The very first task was to present myself to the children in English, for this
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purpose, I wrote the words on the blackboard first, then I showed the children
a card with my name written on it, put it around my neck (it had a string),
children seemed to be interested in what’s going on.
The first slight problem arose as children were surprised that they saw
a different spelling and heard different sounds when the words were
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pronounced. This was briefly discussed and explained, though there were
about two children not happy as they realized they would have to
learn more words at one time. The situation was got over when I asked them
to prepare things as scissors. (in Czech) Then I gave empty copies A5 to them,
and finally asked them to create a name card for themselves. In this part, children
were again quite interested, as it seemed they enjoyed cutting and writing and
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colouring. Already at this moment, it was easy to recognise children who
were skilful, talkative, boys were much noisier that girls too.
After completing this task, most of the children automatically put on
their cards, as they probably noticed the teacher B still wearing it too.
Then I showed all of them what to do with the name cards and the lesson
went on. I showed them two flashcards, one with the word ´hello´, the other with
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´I´m´. The pronunciation of the two individual words was presented by
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repeating the words separately, t- pronounced, repeated, then repeated again, and then Ss were
asked (of course in Czech) to repeat the word, the last part of this activity was
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to make the class repeat the whole phrase (everything put together),
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children were just to insert their own name into it. The teacher then asked
one boy to complete the short dialogue (see the other TJ entry from
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the lesson), he managed to complete it easily, so he was asked to perform the same with someone who he
wanted with a ball. Then they were
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asked to create a circle,
here the first thing to do was to move the desks a bit backwards,
and then the drum was introduced and the task was introduced.
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To make sure that all of them what to do, the it was done as an example,
then they managed to be better and better with each turn they did. After about four minutes in a circle, all
of them seemed to be happy they learnt something new.
At this point, children went to their desks again, and t- presented
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the new greeting ´bye-bye´. The process was repeated again (t-wrote it,
pronounced it 3 times, then a short dialogue between the t – s, then
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the same activity with the drum was done.
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At the very end, T – asked for both the Czech and English translation
of the new learnt words to make sure that the words and phrases were
pronounced well. The last phase was to tidy the classroom, to give everything
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back as it was before and children were asked to bring A4 notebooks next time.
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