Lesson observing

1. was there one particular type of interaction that seemed to predominate?

yes there was, tacher talk, he always speaks all the time in spanish, the only thing he says in english is the sentences and what is he teaching at the moment, the rest is all in spanish, the explanation is in spanish, the instructions are in spanish, etc.
another type is individual word, after the teacher explain the tense or vocabulary, he gives them exercises, always individually because they are too messy and they can't work in groups. that will be terrific. this is a public school so there aren't so many things to do. somethimes is really boring.

2. did teacher activity predominate? or student activity? or was the interaction more or less balanced?

I think it's both, at the begining is always teacher activities, but then the students have to do the activities given by the teacher. the interaction here could be the questions that the teacher has to answer, but more than that not, because they don't know to express themself in english, their knowledge is ver basic, so there's not so many things to do. it's very limitated.


3. how appropiate did you think the chosen interaction, patterns were for the teaching objectives in the different activities? perhaps look at one or two specific examples from your observation.


in my opinion, just observing, it's not the best way to get to them. it's too boring, the kids get easily bored, it's always the same thing, the teacher talk and then translations, and how we know, translation is no the best way to teach, the teacher could do so many thing, games, or work in groups or oral presentations, etc. but the teacher doesn't have the dedication to them, I think that he doesn't enjoy what is he doing. he's always mad at somebody, his face it is as if he were always angry and the students take that and they doesn't catch him.