Myrick, J. CP#3

Hello everyone! Apologies for the delay, I'm just getting acclimated to my new home in DC. Before the move, I observed a class at First Baptist Church downtown. The church has free classes on Tuesday and Thursday nights which has many people from all places. The class that I observed was a TOEFL class that had a student from Brazil who was taking the class to improve her English and test later in 2011. At the beginning of the class, the teacher started off with asking the student if she had any questions about anything in English that she saw throughout the week. The teacher also gave a quiz on Articles and reviewed previous passages. The student had a few problems with her articles and the teacher reviewed the problems and gave the student more examples of articles to work on which the student got them correct. The next assignment that was given was an essay written by previous students that had "connector words" otherwise known as transitions. Finally the teacher assigned a vocabulary quiz that broke the words into a list of regular everyday language that she could use. Finally, my favorite part of the classes, all the students had to come together and sung songs that encouraged vocabulary terms. I loved that the students were enthused and the setting was very informal which allowed students to take their time to create sentences and thoughts.