Lesson Observation 5 (School Practice)

I observed a CLIL lesson about traveling. The teacher showed a comic in the book and asked students to listen and repeat. Then, she asked students questions about the comic such as "How did they go to the airport from home?", "What time was the plane?". Then, she asked them to do a short activity about the comic.

The activity:

These stages were great for activating prior knowledge.

Then, she asked students "What kind of transportations we have in Warsaw?", "How we get abroad from Poland?", "What do you need to go abroad?", "Where to?". She got the answers from students and then showed the pictures. This was also a great way to activate their prior knowledge (vocabulary) because they learned transportation vocabulary last lesson and it is related to this CLIL lesson, also it helped students to get ready for the lesson.

One of the things I liked the most was after she wrote "Poland" on the board, she wrote the directions with students, then asked "If you will travel to the North of Poland, which countries you will go?" and then she wrote the answers with students. This was also like a quick geography lesson and I liked it very much.

Then, she showed a bus ticket booking screenshot (from Warsaw to Vilnius) and asked "Where is Vilnius?". After students found the answer, she asked questions about the time such as "How long is the journey?", "Is it long or short?". It was really intriguing that she used realia for this part. It was a real bus ticket and students really showed interest. Then, she asked "How much is the ticket?", "How much is 28 Euro in zloty?". In a way, this turned into a quick math lesson and it was so much fun. They talked about the passports from different countries, and students were really curious about it. The teacher showed them my passport, the color was the same with Polish passport. She told them some countries have different passport colors. Finally, they drew the map on the board.