On Friday morning, we did a micro teaching lesson for 5^th grade and it took just 30 minutes. We asked the teacher of the class we go as interns the subject of the lesson and she answered that she had to pass to the present continuous tense so she can go with the curriculum correctly. We thought we could do good start in this subject. But as it is the first time students see this tense in the lesson, we thought it would be better to write the structure of the sentence in the present continuous tense to the board. But our teacher in her reflections told us that the lesson should be more inductive. She also added this activity isn’t appropriate for learners of this age. This activity might be used in the courses but in the government schools students must be more involved in the class by the teacher. There was not adequate language acquisition. As seen in the video, main language was used too much and this is a problem for comprehension of the second language. Almost all of the instructions told in Turkish. We watched after and we found our teacher right. She also added we had problems in class management. She said teacher should be sure his/her students follow him/her.

In the second activity, she said it was a good activity for learners of this age. It was good to interact with the students. The activity includes acting out. We tried to do this activity with whole class. But she said it could be well-prepared. Sometimes we had problems as seen in the video. Instructions were Turkish so it was negative for us. But we can say this activity saved today’s lesson and give the students ideas about present continuous tense.