Microteaching 2
Teacher: Miss May Nasr
Grade 8
Class period: 55 min
Date: January 7
Course Title: English for second language
Number of students: 30
Lesson Topic: Importance of Olive Trees
Lesson Objective:
Students should be able Speaking: to gather information (for discussion)
To formulate opinion (clustering)
to become more aware of the importance of preserving clean healthy environment.
Trees provide us with oxygen, food and beautify our environment, etc.
When you enter the UOB gate, what is the first thing that captured your eyes?
- Olive trees – benches where students sit. Why olive tree is so important and why it is distinguished from other trees? It is significant, noteworthy as its origin goes back to the history of mankind and the growth of civilization.
What do you know about this tree?
Draw a circle on board, clustering words
king: to gather information (for discussion)
To formulate opinion (clustering)
Listening: to gather and learn new information.
Reading: to analyze and interpret the reading and then write it in the writing task.
Subsidiary objective: students will be able to discuss the theme about importance of olive trees using the new vocabulary related to the topic.
Procedures:
Warm up activity. 3-4 mim
Students are asked certain question based on prior knowledge to start the lesson. Students are introduced to items related to olive trees to grab their attention.
Speaking: 10 min
Teacher engages students in a discussion about the topic through generating questions that will lead the discussion. Eliciting and clustering words.
When you enter the UOB gate, what is the first thing that captured your eyes?
Why olive tree is so important and why it is distinguished from other trees? What do you know about this tree?
Why olive oil is so important and why it is distinguished from other trees?
Reading: 8 min
Students skim and scan for specific and general details to enhance their knowledge about the importance of olive trees. Students will work in group to answer the comprehended questions.
Let student read the passage then teacher ask them to answer the comprehended questions.
Divide students into group of three to answer the questions. Then swap their papers to correct them.
Students will cut the correct answers and put them in a basket. These answers will be used listed and labeled on the poster.
Poster: 3 min
Creative and artistic: students will be motivated and involved in revising and labeling the important items those summaries the lesson.
Poster of Picasso’s picture dove of peace
Label
Listing board
Why olive trees are important to human beings?
What are the benefits of olive tree?
Writing: 25 min.
Persuasive writing and role play.
Write one paragraph. 10 min
Persuasive writing: Imagine you have a big piece of land planted olive and your parent wants to chop down the trees to build a factory. How do you convince them not to cut the trees to keep the land as it is and benefit from these olives trees?
Students individually do the writing task.
Role play. 15 min.
Group work: Then students are seated in pairs where they share each other’s ideas in order to write down a dialogue which will be acted in class.
Poster of Picasso’s picture dove
Label
Instructional Materials:
Olive branch, olive oil, olives, bar of soap, posters of olive trees and Picasso’s drawing “Dove of Peace, a booklet about olive “the olive tree in the Mediterranean”
Evaluation of the students:
Students are evaluated through their engagement in the activities and through labeling the poster which sum up the lesson. Feedback will be given later on, after implementing the whole lesson.
Assignment: internet research.
Search for similar trees that are well known in Lebanon and write about their benefits for human beings and environment.
For example, you could write about the benefits of fruitful trees like apples or forest trees like Cedars and Oak trees.
Comment on the lesson:
This lesson is implemented through a shy attempt to use art by presenting the poster activity. The use of authentic material and experiential learning is widely used. Also attention was paid to involve students with learning diversity through varying the activities.
Appendix A
Warm up
Why are trees important?
Students might answer: Trees provide us with oxygen, food and beautify our environment, etc. Identify the items related to olive tree.
Speaking:
When you enter the UOB gate, what is the first thing that captured your eyes?
- Olive trees – benches where students sit. Why olive tree is so important and why it is distinguished from other trees? It is significant, noteworthy as its origin goes back to the history of mankind and the growth of civilization.
What do you know about this tree?
Appendix B
Reading: to analyze and interpret the reading and then write it in the writing task.
Let student read the passage then teacher ask them to answer the comprehended questions.
Olive and Medicine
In earlier times olive oil was used therapeutically in many ways. Roman medicine favored the oil of the bitter wild olive.
Then and now, for instance, warm oil may be introduced to the ear as a remedy for inflammation or to loosen excess wax. Then and now, it is applied as a balm to burns and stings-as formerly to wounds.
Olive oil and other “good” or mono-unsaturated oils both lower “bad” LDL and simultaneously raise “good” HDL. Olive oil also has another advantage. It contains antioxidants, which offset “bad” free radicals. While it is at it, olive oil contains phytoestrogens, which counteract bone loss.
1- When was olive oil used to treat people?
2- For what purposes was warm olive oil used?
3- Is olive oil good for bad LDL?
4- What are the other advantages of olive oil?
5- In your opinion, do you think that olive oil is so important and why?
Poster: 3 min
Creative and artistic: students will be motivated and involved in revising and labeling the important items those summaries the lesson.
Poster of Picasso’s picture dove of peace
Label
Why olive trees are important to human beings?
What are the benefits of olive tree?
Appendix c
Writing: 25 min.
Persuasive writing and role play.
Lebanon is well known by its olive trees.
Olive trees are grown in almost every region of Lebanon and Koura is well known by its olive trees that grow on its plains and hills since ancient times. The golden olive oil and tasty olives have contributed in enriching our society and in building prosperous future for our sons since hundreds of years. Our ancestors plowed and cared for their land to educate their children.
Write one paragraph. 10 min
Persuasive writing: Imagine you have a big piece of land planted olive and your parent wants to chop down the trees to build a factory. How do you convince them not to cut the trees to keep the land as it is and benefit from these olives trees?
Students individually do the writing task.
Role play. 15 min.
Group work: Then students are seated in pairs where they share each other’s ideas in order to write down a dialogue which will be acted in class.
Olive tree let’s encourage the plantation of more olive trees Long lasting trees
Olive tree is an evergreen tree.
What does the olive tree symbolizes?
Peace and Tranquility, Evergreen, History and Civilization,
Provides us with Delicious and healthy olive oil, Tasty black and green olive,
Wood Source of Heat, Furniture.
Used in Medicine
Medical usage. Warm oil as a remedy for the ear. Applied as a balm Lower “bad” LDL
Provides us with Oxygen Good for Environment
Microteaching 2
Teacher: Miss May Nasr
Grade 8
Class period: 55 min
Date: January 7
Course Title: English for second language
Number of students: 30
Lesson Objectives:
Students should be able to:
1. To identify vocabulary words relevant to the importance of olive trees.
2. To elicit new vocabulary words related to the importance of olive trees.
3. To use fourteen new vocabulary words related to the olive in medicine and write them in meaningful sentences.
Procedures:
Warm up Activity. 3-4 mim. Use of relia
students are asked certain questions based on their prior knowledge of trees. To grab their attention, students are introduced to items related to olive trees by the use of realia
Speaking Activity: 10 min
Teacher engages students in a discussion about the topic by generating questions that will lead the discussion. Appendix A
Reading Activity: 8 min
Students will learn new vocabulary words. They skim and scan to enhance their knowledge about the importance of olive trees. Students work in groups to answer the comprehension questions. Appendix B
• Let students read the passage then the teacher asks them to answer the comprehension questions.
• Divide students into groups of three to answer the questions. Then the groups swap their papers and correct them.
• Students cut the correct answers and place them in a basket. These answers will be used to list and label the poster in the next activity.
Poster Activity: 10 min
Appendix C
Poster of Picasso’s picture “Dove of Peace” is used to reinforce and check the reading and speaking comprehension.
Creative and artistic: students are motivated and involved in revising and labeling the important items those related to the importance of olive tree, thus summarizing the lesson.
Writing: 25 min.
Role-play. Appendix D
Role-play will be acted to enhance the practice of the new vocabulary and use them in writing. The characters are parents and two sons.
Group work: Then students are seated in pairs to discuss their ideas. Then they write down a dialogue which will be acted in class.
Instructional Materials:
Olive branch, olive oil, olives, bar of soap, posters of olive trees and Picasso’s drawing “Dove of Peace, a booklet about olive “the olive tree in the Mediterranean”
Evaluation of the students:
Students are evaluated according to their engagement in the activities, ability to use these new vocabularies in correct sentences and ability to label the poster which sum up the lesson. Feedback will be given later, after the implementation of the whole lesson.
Assignment: Internet research.
Search for similar trees that are well-known in Lebanon and write about their benefits for human beings and the environment.
For example, you could write about the benefits of fruit trees such as apples trees, or forest trees such as Cedars or Oak trees.
Comment on the lesson:
This lesson is implemented through a shy attempt to use art by presenting the poster activity. The use of authentic material and experiential learning is widely used. Also, attention was paid to involve students with learning diversity by varying the activities.
Exploitability of the lesson.
This lesson could be done by presenting a video about the extracting of olive oil or by taking students on a trip to see the collection of olive during the season.
Appendix A
Why are trees important?
Students might answer: Trees provide us with oxygen, food and beautify our environment, etc. Identify the items related to olive tree.
Speaking:
When you enter the UOB, what is the first thing that captures your eye?
Why is the olive tree so important and why it is distinguished from other trees?
It is significant and noteworthy as its origin goes back to the history of mankind and the growth of civilization.
What do you know about this tree?
Appendix B
Vocabulary words: therapeutically, wild olive, remedy, inflammation, wax, balm, stings, wounds, mono-unsaturated oils, LDL and HDL, antioxidants, offset, bad free radicals, hytoestrogen.
Reading: to analyze and interpret the reading and then write it in the writing task.
Let student read the passage then teacher ask them to answer the comprehension questions.
Olive and Medicine
In earlier times olive oil was used therapeutically in many ways. Roman medicine favored the oil of the bitter wild olive.
Then and now, for instance, warm oil may be introduced to the ear as a remedy for inflammation or to loosen excess wax. Then and now, it is applied as a balm to burns and stings-as formerly to wounds.
Olive oil and other “good” or mono-unsaturated oils both lower “bad” LDL and simultaneously raise “good” HDL. Olive oil also has another advantage. It contains antioxidants, which offset “bad” free radicals. While it is at it, olive oil contains phytoestrogen, which counteract bone loss.
6- When was olive oil used to treat people?
7- For what purposes was warm olive oil used?
8- Is olive oil good for bad LDL?
9- What are the other advantages of olive oil?
10- In your opinion, do you think that olive oil is important and why?
Appendix C
Poster: 3 min
Poster of Picasso’s picture dove of peace
Why olive trees are important to human beings?
What are the benefits of olive tree?
Label: Olive tree
Let’s encourage the plantation of more olive trees Provides us with Oxygen Good for Environment
Long lasting trees
Evergreen
Olive tree is an evergreen tree.
What does the olive tree symbolizes?
Peace and Tranquility, Evergreen, History and Civilization,
Provides us with Food
Delicious and healthy olive oil, Tasty black and green olive,
Provides us with Wood
Source of Heat, Furniture.
Used in Medicine
Medical usage. Warm oil as a remedy for the ear. Applied as a balm Lower “bad” LDL
Appendix D
Writing: 25 min.
Role-play.
Based on the vocabulary that student learned about the importance of olive trees, students have to demonstrate a role play to practice the usage of these vocabularies.
Lebanon is well known by its olive trees.
Olive trees are grown in almost every region of Lebanon. Since ancient times, Koura is well known by its olive trees that grow on its plains and hills. The golden olive oil and tasty olives have contributed in enriching our society and in building prosperous future for our sons since hundreds of years. Our ancestors plowed and cared for their land to educate their children.
Now the prices of land will make a fortune.
The family consists of parents and two sons.
• Parents want to sell the land to become rich.
• Sons want to keep the land and benefit from its wonderful olive trees.
Each character will have a colored card that disguises him from the others. The four characters have to list the vocabulary words on these which they will use when acting.
Group work: Then students are seated in pairs to discuss their ideas. Then they write down a dialogue which will be acted in class
Next hour
We are going to write a persuasive essay.
Imagine you have a big piece of land planted olive and your parents want to chop down the trees to build a factory. How do you convince them not to cut the trees and benefit from these olive trees? In other words, what would you do cut the trees or build a factory?
Students individually do the writing task.
Reflection on my microteaching
In writing my second microteaching, my main concern was to execute a well organized lesson where the objectives are clearly stated, the text is coherent, well contextualized and the activities are written with clear instructions. I wanted each part of the lesson to be linked with each other, so that when implementing the lesson the shift from the introductory activity to the developmental activity and the to the closing activity will be smooth and clear. I tried my best to search for materials that will raise the students’ interest, make use of new vocabulary by generating question and eliciting words, by learning the meaning of new vocabulary and using them in correct sentence, by discussing and answering the comprehension questions and writing the essay later on. I was occupied with my lesson, generating question and trying to anticipate what the students might answer, clustering the vocabulary and searching for a reading activity that is up to the level of the students till the extent that I thought everything is just right.
I was obsessed by writing clear instructions especially that in my previous microteaching, my writing instructions were not clear and as a result I could not demonstrate my lesson of subject verb agreement as I had planned. I anticipated that everyone knows the pronouns in the “third person singular” and the pronouns in the “plural form”, for this I wrote my instructions as I did in activity 2. It might have been clearer If I had written them, as I do in my class at school, such as “rewrite the activity using pronouns: he, she, it instead of the pronoun I and “rewrite the activity using the pronouns: you, we, they instead of the pronoun I”. Having this in mind, I wanted my second micro teaching lesson to be well organized with clear objectives that meets the instructions. The objective may not have been clear and as a result, they were revisited. An error with respect to typing the document was done. It may have been confusing for students. This produced a chaotic reaction and made me search for a particular content. Therefore, this has been corrected and the improved lesson plan reflects a coherent listing.
Critical incidents happen and the teacher has to be well prepared to handle the situations. Dr Annous has always warned that these incidents might happen and as I mentioned above it really affected my presentation. I was late and interrupted Lina’s lesson but she handled the problem in a very professional way. I tried to be calm but I was worried and afraid that students might not respond as I wanted which will affect my time line for the activities. I was presenting my lesson but my mind was thinking of what might happen next. For this incomplete sentences occur such as “this is for to eat” instead “this is to eat” and saying AUB instead of UOB that made the branch of olive is its logo and we forgot to mention it. Asking students “who will start instead of please, answer” and saying “for example’, a lot where there is no need to say it. Mixing Arabic with English at times such as “Nouh” instead of Noah; and “yeani” instead of “this means”, etc. The clustering of words can benefit from being more organized so that categories are made clearer. The explanation of the new vocabulary in the reading part should be more emphasized and explained even if the students have said that they understood the lesson and everything is clear. Asking the students to cut the papers themselves and stick them on the poster to make them sum up the lesson and check what they understood from the lesson. The time line was extended to 10 minutes in the revisited lesson plan.
Clear visual aids and the use of realia encourage students to elicit and use their imagination to formulate sentences as possible and reinforces the use of spoken or written words. Strong interaction and engagement with students as the students were involved in the activities. Positive class dynamics as I tried my best to integrate the activities that motivates student and engage them paying attention to students with diverse learning styles. Also, students were cooperative and responding properly to my instructions as they were working together and in groups. Time table of activities was respected.
Thank you my dear friends
Thank you Dr. Annous
Teacher: Miss May Nasr
Grade 8
Class period: 55 min
Date: January 7
Course Title: English for second language
Number of students: 30
Lesson Topic: Importance of Olive Trees
Lesson Objective:
Students should be able Speaking: to gather information (for discussion)
To formulate opinion (clustering)
to become more aware of the importance of preserving clean healthy environment.
Trees provide us with oxygen, food and beautify our environment, etc.
When you enter the UOB gate, what is the first thing that captured your eyes?
- Olive trees – benches where students sit. Why olive tree is so important and why it is distinguished from other trees? It is significant, noteworthy as its origin goes back to the history of mankind and the growth of civilization.
What do you know about this tree?
Draw a circle on board, clustering words
king: to gather information (for discussion)
To formulate opinion (clustering)
Listening: to gather and learn new information.
Reading: to analyze and interpret the reading and then write it in the writing task.
Subsidiary objective: students will be able to discuss the theme about importance of olive trees using the new vocabulary related to the topic.
Procedures:
Warm up activity. 3-4 mim
Students are asked certain question based on prior knowledge to start the lesson. Students are introduced to items related to olive trees to grab their attention.
Speaking: 10 min
Teacher engages students in a discussion about the topic through generating questions that will lead the discussion. Eliciting and clustering words.
When you enter the UOB gate, what is the first thing that captured your eyes?
Why olive tree is so important and why it is distinguished from other trees? What do you know about this tree?
Why olive oil is so important and why it is distinguished from other trees?
Reading: 8 min
Students skim and scan for specific and general details to enhance their knowledge about the importance of olive trees. Students will work in group to answer the comprehended questions.
Let student read the passage then teacher ask them to answer the comprehended questions.
Divide students into group of three to answer the questions. Then swap their papers to correct them.
Students will cut the correct answers and put them in a basket. These answers will be used listed and labeled on the poster.
Poster: 3 min
Creative and artistic: students will be motivated and involved in revising and labeling the important items those summaries the lesson.
Poster of Picasso’s picture dove of peace
Label
Listing board
Why olive trees are important to human beings?
What are the benefits of olive tree?
Writing: 25 min.
Persuasive writing and role play.
Write one paragraph. 10 min
Persuasive writing: Imagine you have a big piece of land planted olive and your parent wants to chop down the trees to build a factory. How do you convince them not to cut the trees to keep the land as it is and benefit from these olives trees?
Students individually do the writing task.
Role play. 15 min.
Group work: Then students are seated in pairs where they share each other’s ideas in order to write down a dialogue which will be acted in class.
Poster of Picasso’s picture dove
Label
Instructional Materials:
Olive branch, olive oil, olives, bar of soap, posters of olive trees and Picasso’s drawing “Dove of Peace, a booklet about olive “the olive tree in the Mediterranean”
Evaluation of the students:
Students are evaluated through their engagement in the activities and through labeling the poster which sum up the lesson. Feedback will be given later on, after implementing the whole lesson.
Assignment: internet research.
Search for similar trees that are well known in Lebanon and write about their benefits for human beings and environment.
For example, you could write about the benefits of fruitful trees like apples or forest trees like Cedars and Oak trees.
Comment on the lesson:
This lesson is implemented through a shy attempt to use art by presenting the poster activity. The use of authentic material and experiential learning is widely used. Also attention was paid to involve students with learning diversity through varying the activities.
Appendix A
Warm up
Why are trees important?
Students might answer: Trees provide us with oxygen, food and beautify our environment, etc. Identify the items related to olive tree.
Speaking:
When you enter the UOB gate, what is the first thing that captured your eyes?
- Olive trees – benches where students sit. Why olive tree is so important and why it is distinguished from other trees? It is significant, noteworthy as its origin goes back to the history of mankind and the growth of civilization.
What do you know about this tree?
Appendix B
Reading: to analyze and interpret the reading and then write it in the writing task.
Let student read the passage then teacher ask them to answer the comprehended questions.
Olive and Medicine
In earlier times olive oil was used therapeutically in many ways. Roman medicine favored the oil of the bitter wild olive.
Then and now, for instance, warm oil may be introduced to the ear as a remedy for inflammation or to loosen excess wax. Then and now, it is applied as a balm to burns and stings-as formerly to wounds.
Olive oil and other “good” or mono-unsaturated oils both lower “bad” LDL and simultaneously raise “good” HDL. Olive oil also has another advantage. It contains antioxidants, which offset “bad” free radicals. While it is at it, olive oil contains phytoestrogens, which counteract bone loss.
1- When was olive oil used to treat people?
2- For what purposes was warm olive oil used?
3- Is olive oil good for bad LDL?
4- What are the other advantages of olive oil?
5- In your opinion, do you think that olive oil is so important and why?
Poster: 3 min
Creative and artistic: students will be motivated and involved in revising and labeling the important items those summaries the lesson.
Poster of Picasso’s picture dove of peace
Label
Why olive trees are important to human beings?
What are the benefits of olive tree?
Appendix c
Writing: 25 min.
Persuasive writing and role play.
Lebanon is well known by its olive trees.
Olive trees are grown in almost every region of Lebanon and Koura is well known by its olive trees that grow on its plains and hills since ancient times. The golden olive oil and tasty olives have contributed in enriching our society and in building prosperous future for our sons since hundreds of years. Our ancestors plowed and cared for their land to educate their children.
Write one paragraph. 10 min
Persuasive writing: Imagine you have a big piece of land planted olive and your parent wants to chop down the trees to build a factory. How do you convince them not to cut the trees to keep the land as it is and benefit from these olives trees?
Students individually do the writing task.
Role play. 15 min.
Group work: Then students are seated in pairs where they share each other’s ideas in order to write down a dialogue which will be acted in class.
Olive tree let’s encourage the plantation of more olive trees Long lasting trees
Olive tree is an evergreen tree.
What does the olive tree symbolizes?
Peace and Tranquility, Evergreen, History and Civilization,
Provides us with Delicious and healthy olive oil, Tasty black and green olive,
Wood Source of Heat, Furniture.
Used in Medicine
Medical usage. Warm oil as a remedy for the ear. Applied as a balm Lower “bad” LDL
Provides us with Oxygen Good for Environment
Microteaching 2
Teacher: Miss May Nasr
Grade 8
Class period: 55 min
Date: January 7
Course Title: English for second language
Number of students: 30
Lesson Objectives:
Students should be able to:
1. To identify vocabulary words relevant to the importance of olive trees.
2. To elicit new vocabulary words related to the importance of olive trees.
3. To use fourteen new vocabulary words related to the olive in medicine and write them in meaningful sentences.
Procedures:
Warm up Activity. 3-4 mim. Use of relia
students are asked certain questions based on their prior knowledge of trees. To grab their attention, students are introduced to items related to olive trees by the use of realia
Speaking Activity: 10 min
Teacher engages students in a discussion about the topic by generating questions that will lead the discussion. Appendix A
Reading Activity: 8 min
Students will learn new vocabulary words. They skim and scan to enhance their knowledge about the importance of olive trees. Students work in groups to answer the comprehension questions. Appendix B
• Let students read the passage then the teacher asks them to answer the comprehension questions.
• Divide students into groups of three to answer the questions. Then the groups swap their papers and correct them.
• Students cut the correct answers and place them in a basket. These answers will be used to list and label the poster in the next activity.
Poster Activity: 10 min
Appendix C
Poster of Picasso’s picture “Dove of Peace” is used to reinforce and check the reading and speaking comprehension.
Creative and artistic: students are motivated and involved in revising and labeling the important items those related to the importance of olive tree, thus summarizing the lesson.
Writing: 25 min.
Role-play. Appendix D
Role-play will be acted to enhance the practice of the new vocabulary and use them in writing. The characters are parents and two sons.
Group work: Then students are seated in pairs to discuss their ideas. Then they write down a dialogue which will be acted in class.
Instructional Materials:
Olive branch, olive oil, olives, bar of soap, posters of olive trees and Picasso’s drawing “Dove of Peace, a booklet about olive “the olive tree in the Mediterranean”
Evaluation of the students:
Students are evaluated according to their engagement in the activities, ability to use these new vocabularies in correct sentences and ability to label the poster which sum up the lesson. Feedback will be given later, after the implementation of the whole lesson.
Assignment: Internet research.
Search for similar trees that are well-known in Lebanon and write about their benefits for human beings and the environment.
For example, you could write about the benefits of fruit trees such as apples trees, or forest trees such as Cedars or Oak trees.
Comment on the lesson:
This lesson is implemented through a shy attempt to use art by presenting the poster activity. The use of authentic material and experiential learning is widely used. Also, attention was paid to involve students with learning diversity by varying the activities.
Exploitability of the lesson.
This lesson could be done by presenting a video about the extracting of olive oil or by taking students on a trip to see the collection of olive during the season.
Appendix A
Why are trees important?
Students might answer: Trees provide us with oxygen, food and beautify our environment, etc. Identify the items related to olive tree.
Speaking:
When you enter the UOB, what is the first thing that captures your eye?
Why is the olive tree so important and why it is distinguished from other trees?
It is significant and noteworthy as its origin goes back to the history of mankind and the growth of civilization.
What do you know about this tree?
Appendix B
Vocabulary words: therapeutically, wild olive, remedy, inflammation, wax, balm, stings, wounds, mono-unsaturated oils, LDL and HDL, antioxidants, offset, bad free radicals, hytoestrogen.
Reading: to analyze and interpret the reading and then write it in the writing task.
Let student read the passage then teacher ask them to answer the comprehension questions.
Olive and Medicine
In earlier times olive oil was used therapeutically in many ways. Roman medicine favored the oil of the bitter wild olive.
Then and now, for instance, warm oil may be introduced to the ear as a remedy for inflammation or to loosen excess wax. Then and now, it is applied as a balm to burns and stings-as formerly to wounds.
Olive oil and other “good” or mono-unsaturated oils both lower “bad” LDL and simultaneously raise “good” HDL. Olive oil also has another advantage. It contains antioxidants, which offset “bad” free radicals. While it is at it, olive oil contains phytoestrogen, which counteract bone loss.
6- When was olive oil used to treat people?
7- For what purposes was warm olive oil used?
8- Is olive oil good for bad LDL?
9- What are the other advantages of olive oil?
10- In your opinion, do you think that olive oil is important and why?
Appendix C
Poster: 3 min
Poster of Picasso’s picture dove of peace
Why olive trees are important to human beings?
What are the benefits of olive tree?
Label: Olive tree
Let’s encourage the plantation of more olive trees Provides us with Oxygen Good for Environment
Long lasting trees
Evergreen
Olive tree is an evergreen tree.
What does the olive tree symbolizes?
Peace and Tranquility, Evergreen, History and Civilization,
Provides us with Food
Delicious and healthy olive oil, Tasty black and green olive,
Provides us with Wood
Source of Heat, Furniture.
Used in Medicine
Medical usage. Warm oil as a remedy for the ear. Applied as a balm Lower “bad” LDL
Appendix D
Writing: 25 min.
Role-play.
Based on the vocabulary that student learned about the importance of olive trees, students have to demonstrate a role play to practice the usage of these vocabularies.
Lebanon is well known by its olive trees.
Olive trees are grown in almost every region of Lebanon. Since ancient times, Koura is well known by its olive trees that grow on its plains and hills. The golden olive oil and tasty olives have contributed in enriching our society and in building prosperous future for our sons since hundreds of years. Our ancestors plowed and cared for their land to educate their children.
Now the prices of land will make a fortune.
The family consists of parents and two sons.
• Parents want to sell the land to become rich.
• Sons want to keep the land and benefit from its wonderful olive trees.
Each character will have a colored card that disguises him from the others. The four characters have to list the vocabulary words on these which they will use when acting.
Group work: Then students are seated in pairs to discuss their ideas. Then they write down a dialogue which will be acted in class
Next hour
We are going to write a persuasive essay.
Imagine you have a big piece of land planted olive and your parents want to chop down the trees to build a factory. How do you convince them not to cut the trees and benefit from these olive trees? In other words, what would you do cut the trees or build a factory?
Students individually do the writing task.
Reflection on my microteaching
In writing my second microteaching, my main concern was to execute a well organized lesson where the objectives are clearly stated, the text is coherent, well contextualized and the activities are written with clear instructions. I wanted each part of the lesson to be linked with each other, so that when implementing the lesson the shift from the introductory activity to the developmental activity and the to the closing activity will be smooth and clear. I tried my best to search for materials that will raise the students’ interest, make use of new vocabulary by generating question and eliciting words, by learning the meaning of new vocabulary and using them in correct sentence, by discussing and answering the comprehension questions and writing the essay later on. I was occupied with my lesson, generating question and trying to anticipate what the students might answer, clustering the vocabulary and searching for a reading activity that is up to the level of the students till the extent that I thought everything is just right.
I was obsessed by writing clear instructions especially that in my previous microteaching, my writing instructions were not clear and as a result I could not demonstrate my lesson of subject verb agreement as I had planned. I anticipated that everyone knows the pronouns in the “third person singular” and the pronouns in the “plural form”, for this I wrote my instructions as I did in activity 2. It might have been clearer If I had written them, as I do in my class at school, such as “rewrite the activity using pronouns: he, she, it instead of the pronoun I and “rewrite the activity using the pronouns: you, we, they instead of the pronoun I”. Having this in mind, I wanted my second micro teaching lesson to be well organized with clear objectives that meets the instructions. The objective may not have been clear and as a result, they were revisited. An error with respect to typing the document was done. It may have been confusing for students. This produced a chaotic reaction and made me search for a particular content. Therefore, this has been corrected and the improved lesson plan reflects a coherent listing.
Critical incidents happen and the teacher has to be well prepared to handle the situations. Dr Annous has always warned that these incidents might happen and as I mentioned above it really affected my presentation. I was late and interrupted Lina’s lesson but she handled the problem in a very professional way. I tried to be calm but I was worried and afraid that students might not respond as I wanted which will affect my time line for the activities. I was presenting my lesson but my mind was thinking of what might happen next. For this incomplete sentences occur such as “this is for to eat” instead “this is to eat” and saying AUB instead of UOB that made the branch of olive is its logo and we forgot to mention it. Asking students “who will start instead of please, answer” and saying “for example’, a lot where there is no need to say it. Mixing Arabic with English at times such as “Nouh” instead of Noah; and “yeani” instead of “this means”, etc. The clustering of words can benefit from being more organized so that categories are made clearer. The explanation of the new vocabulary in the reading part should be more emphasized and explained even if the students have said that they understood the lesson and everything is clear. Asking the students to cut the papers themselves and stick them on the poster to make them sum up the lesson and check what they understood from the lesson. The time line was extended to 10 minutes in the revisited lesson plan.
Clear visual aids and the use of realia encourage students to elicit and use their imagination to formulate sentences as possible and reinforces the use of spoken or written words. Strong interaction and engagement with students as the students were involved in the activities. Positive class dynamics as I tried my best to integrate the activities that motivates student and engage them paying attention to students with diverse learning styles. Also, students were cooperative and responding properly to my instructions as they were working together and in groups. Time table of activities was respected.
Thank you my dear friends
Thank you Dr. Annous
