TEACHER OBSERVATION SHEET
Teacher’s name:
Duong Duy Linh
Observer:
Chau Lan Phuong
School :
Thanh Binh-1 High
School
Date:
February 27
th
, 2009
Grade :
10cbA1
Type of lesson:
Reading
Time
Content/ activities
Comments
5’
9’
15’
Unit 11: NATIONAL PARKS
1. Warm
-
up:
Game:
Brainstorming
The game is not interesting
2. Pre-reading
2.1 Pre-teach vocabulary
(all the words in task 1,
p.113) : Matching
- Checking vocabulary (Rob
out & Remember)
- The students could guess the
words quite quickly.
-The activity helped the teacher save
time.
- The lesson lacked pre-reading
activity.
3. While reading
- Task 2: Answer the
- The teacher added 3 questions:
1. How many national parks does
15’
1’
following questions (p. 114)
-Game: Lucky flowers (9
flowers, including 3 lucky
flowers)
Vietnam have?
2. Why does Nairobi National Park
make the visitors surprised?
3. Why is Everglades National Parks
special?
- The activity was exciting.
However, most of the students could
not find out the answers quickly.
- Some of the students write the
answers in the textbooks before.
- The teacher should not ask the
students to write down the answers
on the board.
- The teacher should add more
activities.
4. Post-reading
Discuss in groups. (p. 114)
- The teacher gave some guiding
questions:
1. What do you want to know?
2. What can you learn from the
park?
-The task was done rather well.
5. Homework
- Learn by heart vocabulary.
- The task was proper.
- Prepare the next lesson.
-Write what you talk in
notebooks.
* Good points:
- The teacher used matching activity to help the students guess the
words easily.
- The teacher used game to make the lesson more interesting.
- The teacher helped the students to talk easily by giving some
guiding questions.
* Can improve:
- The teacher should add pre-reading activity such as True/False
statements prediction or predict what the text will mention.
- The teacher should spend time for activities, not for writing on the
board. It should for homework.
- The teacher should use more pictures of these national parks and
the others and share more information about the topic with the students,