Day Two at Phrachapibal Primary School

Expectation
Throughout this practicum experience, my team-teaching partner (Kim) and I will be teaching grade 3, 4, 5 or 6 students. We're expected to teach two classes from different grades each day and to have an hour with each class (reason being is the students have their lessons in Thai for the rest of the day).

First Teaching Lesson - Grade 3 and 6 
Note: We followed the same activities for both of the grades.

Introduction
- Introduced ourselves as Ajan (Teacher) Linda and Ajan (Teacher) Kim.
- Told the students where we're from and displayed images of Sydney's tourist attractions on the whiteboard (The Centre Point Tower, Harbour Bridge and Opera House) and labelled each of them.
- Broke down what is found or what people generally do in each place with appropriate actions and sound effects e,g:

You can eat food, go shopping and look at buildings at the Centre Point Tower.

There are cars (vroom vroom) and trains (chug-chuga-chuga) on the Harbour Bridge. 

People play music in the Opera House. Some people play the guitar, violin and piano or some people sing in the Opera House too. 

Body 
- Introduced six of the Australian animals - Kookaburra, kangaroo, echidna, emu, platypus and koala.
- Read out the names of each animal and asked the students to repeat the words.
- Identified and demonstrated the actions and sound effects that each animal does. Eg:

A kangaroo hops.
An emu pecks.
A koala climbs.
A platypus swims.
An echidna crawls.
A kookaburra flies.

- Asked the students to stand up to imitate the actions, sounds and name of each animal.
- Handed out face masks of each animal and instructed the students to label each animal and colour them in.

Conclusion
- Played a game that incorporated all of the 6 Ozzie animals which we taught. The images of the animals were randomly attached on the walls all over the classroom and the students had to move towards the certain animal in the same manner that the animal would, after it is called out by myself or Kim.
- Revised the whole lesson by asking students to identify what the pictures of the animals and Sydney's tourist attractions are.


Comments: I realised that when it comes to teaching English to ESL learners, there is a greater focus on teacher-directed learning because it is crucial for teachers to have the students repeat one word after another numerous times.

My favourite part of the lesson was when we were pretending to be animals! I felt so free to be like a wild clown and the kids loved it.

Kim and the grade 6 students pretending to be a kookaburra.

The grade 4 students with their animal face masks.