narrative
Class almost started on time, though was held up again by the previous 'encounter' (level checking and passing class), but this time by 3 minutes only – it took another 3 or 4 minutes to seat the learners, collect my materials and get settled. Class went only 10 minutes overtime this time, so I almost contained it within the 60 minute target, but ultimately it spilled over just a little.
It's worth mentioning my morning was completely overthrown by some unforeseen things at home in the flat and as a result I got to the institute just on time, with just not enough time to make up some of the posters I would need. In the end I whipped them up during an activity whilst the learners were kept busy.
Despite a few late arrivals, class started well, with some revision linking part 1 with part 2 nicely. Learners sat at 3 tables, 4 per table. After some fumbling about I found and distributed two of the three job advertisements I had prepared for the groups, and for the missing third I used one I had reserved for the next activity. Learners at that group would reuse their job ad.
I then moved onto writing the stages of an interview in a jumbled order on the white-board, above that the durations for each stage, also out of order. The learners helped me to put them into order, and we quickly moved onto the next matching activity – eliciting useful language for each interview stage, as planned, I felt would have slowed us too much.
After 10 minutes learners in every group had matched cards containing interview questions to their responses, there were both 'good' and 'poor' response cards. Having all my materials and papers in different places about the room, I wasn't there enough to check their doubts and find the right answers with them very much, but I helped were I could, and I was confident at first glance that they were matching the right cards. I later found the answer sheet I needed hidden amongst some papers. Learners got a lot of great practice here reading for information and speaking.
The groups then each came up with the the main duties of a given job I gave them on a printout. I listed some more on the board, then elicited qualities a person for the post would need. Here I forgot to talk about the covering letter also on the printout, and about whether they thought the applicant will have been successful/ suited the position. That question, I planted after the interview role-play between me and one learner, and everyone agreed the although the covering letter was good, the interview was very poor: that they wouldn't have hired her. We discussed reasons why. I used my lesson guide to help.
Finally, I took down some of learners' dream jobs. They were, journalist, paediatrician, president, football coach. I gave out homework: to think of several skills and qualities for each of these jobs as they were going to use them in interviews throughout the course, and the next class. I also gave out 'words for work' vocabulary printouts for their studying.
I introduced briefly the next class telling them to take the interview seriously and that I'll be bringing a video camera!
report
Planning | A |
Classroom Management | C | Work on time management - finish the encounter early!
Use of Resources Aids | B | (forgot class schedule slips). Materials not easy to find in class/disorganised.
Manner and Rapport | C | eye contact! perhaps lost some attention looking for papers etc
Dealing with Language Issues | n/a| (lesson was task-based)
Dealing with Error | A |
Dealing with Individuals | A |
Achievement of Aims | A |
Summary/ Feedback | A | 
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