Universite d’antananarivo ecole normale superieure

2.2.3.2- Observation of a course on “Regrets” to teach the third conditional

This second classroom observation was carried out on 23^rd February 2016 in a “Terminale A” class which was made of 52 students. The title of the lesson was “REGRETS”, and the observation lasted two hours.

• First step: warm up (5 min)

The teacher told the students an anecdote and he said that he regretted for having done what he did. After that, he asked them a question: “Have you ever done something before that you regret now?” Unfortunately, no student answered though the teacher reformulated his question by saying: “What did you regret?” The students did not answer the question because they were not listening to the anecdote, so they had no idea of what “to regret” means.

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