Reflect Lesson Plan: Making an Appointment (Nuchanat Sukban)

         The topic that Nuchanat chosen was a different from the others. Time and appointments are important that students should be supposed, be made aware and be punctual. The unit aim of this lesson is Students will speak to make appointment with someone.

          Teacher start the lesson with video about making an appointment and lets students talk about what they have learnt from watching the video. Next, teacher introduces vocabulary that students will meet in the lesson; appointment, seminar, satisfactory etc. Teacher opens audio about “Making an Appointment” 5 times, for fill in the blank in worksheet, for discuss the answer and then student work in pair, create new conversation about Making an Appointment, practice in pair and students present o friends. After that, student practice communication by asking friend in information gap. Students work in group, write how should to do when we have an appointment, then present to friends. Finally, Teacher discusses language feather with student and explain language structures with all students. 

Grammar focus on I would like to …

S.+ would like to + infinitive …

         Teacher should be a clear statement for the student to understand the commands and they are working correctly.

Learning Log: Outside the classroom,

Advantages and disadvantage of online shopping

            Recently shopping online has become very popular because of the vast availability of internet.  Nowadays many people prefer to shop online because it's numerous benefits. Besides many advantages shopping online but it also has many disadvantages as well.

            Online shopping is a great way to shop for items on the internet for almost anything such as clothes, gift items, food, home improvement materials, medicines, and many more. Firstly, online shopping is convenient because it can help you save their time. When you so busy and don’t have any time to go shopping, you only choose goods that you want and order them, in a short time it will be moved to you. Moreover, you can shopping online any time that you want or you have free time without depend on the opening time and closing time of shop, so you can save the time for shopping to do they works. Besides, in online shop, you can choose any goods that you want or prefer in only one shop. The number of goods in online shop is variety, in addition, online shop always update new types of good, which people can’t find in normal shops.

            Despite, the fact that online shopping can be very convenient to the buyers; it also has drawbacks. There are 34.15 percentages of customer in Thailand have some problems from shopping online. The main disadvantage of shopping online is you get scam by fraud sellers who makes online shop for the purpose of stealing money from online consumers. Moreover, most of consumers usually can’t receive or late receive the products as a result; there are many lawsuits at present.

            In conclusion, shopping commercially whether shopping online or in a store shopping online, you should consciously be best. You will have to check to be sure that the site is really tangible. It has not cheated the actual product and these product they need to promote the quality, reliability, appropriate with money, it was sufficient.

Reflect Lesson Plan: Let’s know herbs for health proble (Natnaree Saijit)

Many herbs and spices used in Thai cuisine have beneficial medicinal properties.  The topic that Natnaree chose is interesting and as a close stories the students.

          Teacher started the lesson by greeting and asking the question about health problems and then teacher told her story in the past. Next, given worksheet no.1 to the students and plays PowerPoint slides and asks students about the name of each herb in Thai and health problem. Teacher opens sound and asked the students repeat all name three times. Then, teacher have funny game for students the game name “smell and touch”, teacher divide students into two groups and came in front of the class to play game. Next, teacher plays VDO about some situation (A man go to see the doctor) and ask “What wrong with him?” After that, teacher gives student to match the pictures of herbs with the health problems that they can be used to treat. Finally, the language focus on auxiliary: should for suggestions about health problems and emphasized the vocabulary that met before.

          I think she did all well, because she used the authentic materials that are herbs, picture cards and word cards. She spoke loudly and clearly. The activities are variety and attraction students.

Reflect Lesson Plan: What is acid rain ? (Pichaya Khunchumnan)

         Rain is very important for life. All living things need water to live, even people. Rain brings us the water we need. But in many places in the world even where you live, rain has become a menace. Because of pollution in the air, acid gases from factories, cars and homes, the rain is becoming dangerous for the life of every living creature. “This rain is known as 'acid rain'”. That is good topic that Pichaya chose because this problem is danger for everyone. Ideally, the student will know acid rain and find a way to reduce this problem.

          First of all, teacher started with the video about acid rain for asking students what we are going to learn. Teacher reviews the vocabulary by lets students to play game for made students have fun and learn in the same time. Then, teacher taught the vocabulary by show the meaning in Thai and gave students repeat after him. Next, teacher divided student in group to rearrange the sentences and use them to explain the cycle of acid rain. Lastly, language focus; teacher used ‘will’ by subject+will+v1 for class today.

          I think, the activities that he use has varieties and beautiful for student’s interesting.

Reflect Lesson Plan: Traffic Pollution Damage Kid’s Lungs (Nittaya Jongkon)

          Traffic pollution is a serious danger to children’s health. So, this lesson plan is interesting for teach students because this topic. “Traffic Pollution Damages” help student to know and can express the ideas to solve the pollution..

          Firstly, teacher gives students the pictures which concern to the topic. Asking students guess what they are going to learn and to enhance students’ interest and teach vocabulary about Traffic Pollution Damage Kid’s Lungs, such as undertaken, traffic fumes, highway, weakened, etc.

          Then teacher asks students to listen to the passage the “Traffic Pollution Damages Kid’s Lungs” (2 rounds) and fill the missing words in the blanks and check the answer together.

          Next, Teacher asks students to work in pairs with by practicing the conversation concerning to the passage.

          The last, Teacher introduces the grammatical function of Present Participial from the content, and writes the sentences with the vocabulary that concern with the content.

         Information for teaching students is good, but the passage that teacher gives to students is too long. The passage should easy and short because students may be boring.

Reflect English Lesson Plan: Let’s go to Phuket (Montree Kaewcherd)

         

        Firstly, Teacher stimulates students by asking a question that has anyone ever been to Phuket so far. If you have, what did you do there ?  Teacher asks and waits for their answers. Teacher asks and provides students a couple of minutes to express their needs and ideas.  After that , teacher introduces the vocabulary relating to the lesson such as   collection  ,  internship  and trash , etc.   Then, Teacher shows student the video introducing Phuket Island. After that, Teacher asks students to sit in group and discuss concerning to the handout provided “Keeping Patong beach clean”, who, what , where , when and why.  In this time students have an opportunity to discuss together and teacher have to walk around to encourage them. Next, Teacher distributes leaflets ,which is related to situations or occasion happening in Phuket  to every group with different ones , they talk and discuss about it. Each group has to present the content in the leaflet to the whole class. Last, teacher explains the grammar point  Present Perfect and Past Simple , how to use and give example according the handout given. Then, they practice Students practice conversation with partner by the dialogue given and present to the class.

         Materials that teacher used are interesting. Teacher speak clearly and easy understand, And this lesson plan is motivated to keep clean tourist attraction. 

Reflect Lesson Plan: The beaches are disappearing (Nuntiya Karasee)

                    "The beaches are disappearing" is good lesson and have good ideas for teaching and the way to take care tourism attraction. However, some activities need to be to developed for the better ones. This lesson is focus on speaking, listening, and writing especially listening. Teacher has pre-listening in pre-task, while-listening in task circle and language focus is post listening.

                     To begin with, Teacher starts by ask students to answer the questions:
- Have you ever been to the beach?  -What do you enjoy doing on the beach?
-What kind of building can you find on the beach?

- Do Thai people usually live on the beach?

              Then, teacher has game for students by match the words and the given pictures I think this game is way attract student for learning the vocabulary. Next, task cycle -- teacher opens the audio about “The beaches in Thailand are disappearing” 3 times. The third times, teacher gives sheet no.1 to students. Students can read the story while listening after that teacher gives students to work in pair to answer the question from the story in Task 1 and Task 2. Then, teacher checks the correct answer with the students. Teacher asks students to form groups of three to practice speaking from the situation in the conversation and write two or three sentences about how to save the beaches beautifully and draw the beach in their dream and present in front class. Finally, discusses about expressing obligation and distributes sheet no. 3 to students and practice using must, have to by write responses to the following statements on the board.

Learning Log: Outside the classroom,

Shouldn’t Drink Pearl Milk Tea

            The delicious chewy goodness of pearl milk tea, also known as bubble tea is a popular and refreshing drink. On the other hand, the good taste was a hidden threat.      When you drink a glass of pearl milk tea which consists of sugar, sweetened condensed milk, creamer and tapioca pearl of course, these components make you have the risk of many diseases.  Firstly, it is diabetes, because in one glass have sugar over dose because a glass of pearl milk tea has an average of 55g of sugar. According to Health Promotion Board (HPB) guidelines, a person should have about 40g to 50g of sugar per day. That's 8 to 11 teaspoons this more than necessary therefore risks to diabetes. Moreover, it has high risk to fat because pearl milk tea has creamer is component which has Trans fats that are harmful to the health. And one of the fat is tapioca pearls that many consumers are enjoying the chew to feel sticky, it is the dough from tapioca, bring to boil sugar to calories that varies according to the formula from 2-4 kilo calories per tablet or a cup of pearls contains 540 calories and it doesn’t have nutritious. Another one especially with children aged up to four years, maybe was an unexpected accident there is a risk of foreign objects accidentally entering the lungs that is occurs choking and death because there are small sizes and that is precisely what will happen when the tapioca pearls are sucked up through a straw. So, kids shouldn't eat it. Last of all, pearl milk tea has price more expensive than other beverage. The price starting from 30-60 baht, that price is higher than the price of juices which have more benefit than pearl milk tea. Over and above expensive to pay and also has the risk of the disease.

            To sum up in the field of health - you can choose to eat something that is beneficial.  As words that “You are what you eat”. Therefore, prevention is better than correction especially in health.

Reflect Lesson Plan: "The garbage !" (Atinut Galawig)

            In this lesson teacher teaches about the different types of garbage.  First of all, Teacher greeting students and stimulated  the situation  by  asking  students  to  look  under  their  table  (There are garbage.)  and  ask them  what should  they  do  with  these  garbage? After that, teacher shows  three  kinds  of  bins  and  bring  out  of  the  garbage  and  teach  the  students  a  vocabulary  about  them.  For example, waste tire, waste can, waste glass, waste paper etc. Next, Teacher divide  students  in  to  groups  and  then  ask  them  to  come  out  and  play  game  " Where  should  I  go ? ". By, one  of  the  student  have  to  be  close  his  eyes  and  each  students  in  their  group  have  to  run  to  get  a  garbage  and  bring  it  back  to  the  blinded  students.  After  that  he  have  to  ask  "Is  this a / an .......... ?"  If  his  answer  correct  he  has  to  put  that  garbage  in  the  correct  bin  also.  From  this  point  the  students  is  going  to  have  fun   and  also  learn  how  to  ask  and give information  with  their  friends.  Moreover,  they  are  going  to  learn  how  to  divide  the  garbage  in  each  kinds  of  bin. Then, teacher  have  to  let  the  students  work  in  group  and  give  them  an  A4  paper.  Tell  them  to  discuss  with  their  friends  to  create  their  own  bin  and  tell  them   to  give  the  information  about  their  bin  for  2  or  3  sentence. By  the  way  before  the  presentation  of the information ,  their  friends  have  to  guess  " what  is  this  bin  for ? " Finally, Teacher explains the grammar point The Interrogative sentence of Present Perfect Tense , how to use and give example according the handout given.

          This lesson plan is very good because have movement in classroom and in lesson plan has rubric that clearly. Moreover teacher use authentic materials which has attracted the attention of the students.

Reflect Lesson Plan: Eco in my classroom (Rawitporn malason)

         Saving energy means decreasing the amount of energy used while achieving a similar outcome of end use. Using less energy has lots of benefits – you can save money and help the environment. Generating energy requires precious natural resources, for instance coal, oil or gas. Therefore, using less energy helps us to preserve these resources and make them last longer in the future. Starting from a small point that is classroom, cultivate students to reduce energy pass teaching.

          First, the lesson starts by students answer teacher's question to think about the key words in my classroom such as turn off the light, saving etc. Next, teacher gives sheet no.1 to students and lets them work. After that, Teacher and students checks the correct answers together. Then, Teacher told students opened sheet no.2. It was about the conversation “Turn down the TV!” and teacher shown power point. Teacher divided students into 4 groups to practice the conversation by reading aloud. After finished practicing the conversation, teacher wanted 2 volunteer to do role play about the conversation (Turn down the TV!) in front of the class. Last, teacher gave example sentences about Eco in my classroom such as please close the door, please turn off the light, please turn off the TV, Turn off the fan, please take stairs up one floor etc.

          I think she should to speak clearly and loudly. On the other hand, she has beautiful materials such as power point slide and VDO about Eco in classroom.

Reflect Lesson Plan: Do you know where it is? (Tipparat Meebau)

               Firstly, she started the lesson by greeting students and give students are stimulated by asking questions that has anyone often to go and why. Then teacher wrote the answer on the power point. Teacher chose the place near the school and the students giving direction to that place. And ask student to guessed “ Do you know what we will learn today?” After that, Students watched the video about asking for and giving direction. They had to listen to the audio and repeated after the audio. After listen the audio, teacher divided students into two groups (group A and group B) and gives conversation about asking and giving direction to the students. Then students in each group read aloud the given conversation. Next, teacher asked students to get in pair and practiced asked for and gives directions with their partner by used the map. Lastly, teacher explained the preposition that used to giving direction such as turn left, turn right, go straight, between, across from, opposite, next to, at the corner, etc. Before finishing the lesson, teacher summarized the contents again.

            In my opinion, Teacher should teacher should have more confident and have eye contact to students.