Alyssa B - CO #3 - Grammar Level 3

Classroom Observation 03

Date: July 14th, 2017
Time: 10:50am – whenever the class ended.
Area: Hecht House, Classroom 304
Teacher: Wilson

Class: Grammar Level 3

So, I finally got a different professor to observe. It was a good observation! Professor Wilson has the students input a lot, ask questions, and gives plenty of examples that I’m pretty sure he comes up with on the spot. He was super friendly.

              The first thing the students did was go over the shopping lists they had written down. I at first thought this was a bit dumb, but I realized that there are a lot of different terminologies that have to be remembered, like a LOAF of bread, a BUNCH of grapes, etc. Showed me how stupid it was to NOT practice. >n>

              So, after that, we went over definite articles, like the, these, your, my, etc., and indefinite articles, like a, an, and *no article*. A lot of things were pointed out that I never realized. Proper nouns generally don’t have articles, and when buying things, you usually use plurals. “Best Buy is a great place to buy TVs.” vs “Best Buy is a great place to buy a TV.”

              As a side note, I also learned that in German, ALL nouns are capitalized.

              We then went over the project they had to do, which is a skit, and he showed some funny skits that were done a couple years ago.

              Then we went over count nouns, non-count nous, and more articles.

              Abstract nouns and gerunds are non-countable, etc.

              After the break, we went of noun clauses. All the students did really well, I don’t think any of them had any difficulties whatsoever.