THE CLASS OF ELIT 371

I attended ELIT 371 class in Yeditepe University. Our lesson took place at Law Faculty’s Building. The building is very simple it was not complicated. I found my class easily and I was there five minutes before teachers coming. While I was waiting for my teacher I found the chance of observing the class. Students were sitting disorderly. There was not any seating arrangement. On the left side there were windows and on the right side we have two doors. The class was very simple too. Walls and desks were grey. There were a picture of Ataturk and a white board,45 desks and 25 students in class.  A girl was sitting in front of the window and watching outside, also she was eating something. A big group was speaking loudly, they were laughing and joking.  Two girls was speaking about lesson, one of them was putting a worksheet in hand.  Behind me, there were some students, too. They were waiting for teacher and drinking chocolate milk. After a few minutes, three student groups came to class and they found desks for themselves.

Then our teacher was seen at the door. She is not very young, she has short and nearly  all white hairs but a few pinches were dyed red. She wore a flowery dress and she had long boots. She put her belongings on her chair and she put her stuff on the white lectern. Then she turned to students. She wanted students who were sitting at back to change their chair. Students changed their places and they came closer to our teacher. She started to talk loudly some students did not care but she warned them in order to took every students’ attention. As a result of that every student focused on our teacher.  She started to talk with students about daily things so as to make them more relaxed. Then, she started to ask questions about our last topic with the help of questions teacher reminded students the last topic for providing a permanent learning.  After for a while, she started to mention about minimal pairs. She gave us a great description of our topic while she was describing she also asked questions so she checked whether students understand the topic or not. To make learning more effective she gave different types of examples.

But some students did not understand topic very well. Because our teacher’s style of writing or using the board is very complicated and that makes students confused.  I have the same opinion with them but I have not any difficulty to understand her because I have information about our topic. ıf I had not known, I would have difficulty. While teacher were teaching, students were asking questions and our teacher explained, answered in detail.

To sum up, our lesson was ordinary, constant. To make lesson more exciting, our teacher can do something. She can use different materials and teaching methods but in spite of everything I love our teacher and her lesson. She always ready for teaching and guiding her students. She like teaching and helping others and when you attend the class you can notice that easily.