Conditionals and business letters 2

This week I taught the both groups a lesson on business letters, or quotations, to be more specific, and conditionals. I selected the grammar to be the first item after checking the homework, because it would require more attention and a higher energy level.

Group A was quite cooperative and completed the exercises very quickly. We had time to even check the exercises in class. For group B, on the other hand, it took ages to even check the homework. The students were very passive and only two of them volunteered to say the answers.

The topic for the day was Conditionals and business letters. To illustrate a conditional structure “If x,… I would”  I used a video clip from the musical Fiddler on the Roof with the famous quote ”If I were a rich man…”.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl7BVr36bbs

I had also selected one online conditional exercise on famous quotations, found at http://www.bes.info.pl/grammar/conditionals/conditionals-quotes.html. I really felt that the interactive touch add an interesting dimension to teaching, as well as the element of surprise.

On group B’s lesson it was time to take some video footage for Educational Science project. My supervising teaching filmed me teaching, helping the class and even two student’s comments.

The student are to write a second business letter, so we continued with this topic and looked at some useful beginning and ending sentences and a specimen letter.

After the lesson one student spontaneously thanked me for teaching. She said that she had liked my approach that everyone was able to participate and that I had emphasized that it was ok try, and the wrong answers were not discouraged.

I collected feedback from group B with Answergarden tool, because this was the trird and the last time I would teach them. Here is the responses that I got: http://answergarden.ch/view/76081