ESAL 0420-01 Brian Bouthillier

Time

Objective Observations

Subjective Observations

12:30-12:38

Brian welcomes the class and takes attendance. Asks “how are you today?” students answer over the mic

Good way to get students engaged and ready to learn. When called on, students are quick to respond.

12:38-12:59

Reviewed assignments from unit 2.

All students have submitted their assignments! Great!

12:43-12:45

Some students were unable to listen to the audio recording for one of the exercises, so Brian played it for the class.

Good way to combat some tech issues. Always nice to be flexible!

1:00-2:09

Introduced unit 3: Future time. Future is formed using a modal+base rather than changing the verb.

I like how Brian types into his PowerPoint as he is explaining things. This would increase comprehension.

 

Simple future: Predictions, plans, willingness.

 

Future Progressive. Brian draws a very simple timeline to explain the future. Types examples of the tenses as he talks.

 Easy to understand.

1:24 BREAK 10min

 

Simple Present

Ex.Things that are scheduled

Students may have difficulty using previously learned tenses in a different way. Will have to remember that when we design activites.

 

Present progressive

Ex. future plans

 

Two actions in the future. Complex sentences (ind. And Dep. Clauses). Only need to use future in the independent clause.

 

Future Perfect

 

Future Perfect Progressive

2:10-2:24

Went over exercises students should do. Readings, Exercise 1, exercise 4

By demonstrating the exercises, he ensures that they will be done correctly and actually useful for practice

Reflection:

I appreciate how Brian has a predictable flow and structure to his lectures. That would work well to keep the anxiety levels of the students down and feeling prepared as they always know that class will start with a review of the homework and any questions they had. Then he moves on the introducing new material in a very simple and easy to understand way. As a student, I feel it would be very easy to take notes from his lectures as he has very minimalist powerpoints but provides a lot of examples as he goes along. I like that the examples are not pre-typed into the slides; instead, he uses the text tool in BBB to type them on the screen during the lecture. This would allow him to customise the examples for every class and be able to re-use the powerpoint, but also to tailor the examples to the students’ needs that day. For example, if they seem to be understanding the simple past but have a lot of questions about present progressive, he can spend more time there and provide more examples.