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Essay / mmm - 726
There are four skills when students learn English. These are speaking, writing, reading and listening. However, speaking and writing are different from the other two. The other two, students can do alone, without anyone else. They can listen to the radio, cassettes alone. They can read a book on their own, but they can't really talk on their own, so productive skills need to be used as much as possible in the classroom. For this reason, in my lesson plan I focused more on teaching productive skills where students must produce language. To do this, I divided the lesson into steps. In this article, I will reflect on my first teaching experience by discussing these steps. First of all, at the beginning of the lesson, I mentioned the purpose of the lesson. In this lesson, the goal was to teach students that there is and there is. So, at the end of the lesson, students were supposed to use there is/there are correctly. In my opinion, it is important to ensure that students understand the purpose of a lesson because they learn better when they know what is expected of them. In this lesson, the students clearly understood the purpose of the lesson because first, I explained it to them by saying what they were going to learn. Next, I used a warm-up activity. This was the first step in my lesson plan. In this warm-up activity, I brought real materials into the classroom, such as an apple, five knives, etc. However, I brought five plastic knives instead of real knives because it could pose a danger in the classroom. In short, I tried to engage them in the lesson using real material. I think it made learning English more interesting and memorable for the students. Secondly, the second step was the presentation step...middle of the article......together. In this lesson, I often used rephrasing and rephrasing to correct students' errors. For example, a student said there was an apple and I repeated that there was an apple. By the way, when students use Turkish to say something, I said it in English and I also responded in English. For example, one student told me that if he started working, overall this lesson was primarily based on teaching productive skills. In my opinion, teachers need to focus more on productive skills than receptive skills because students learn best when they produce language. I learned so much about teaching. It is our job as teachers to find not only what motivates students to learn, but also what motivates them not to misbehave. If we can meet them at that time and take away that motivation, we can go a long way towards a more effective classroom and learning experience..