Eng. 731.

Methods of English Teaching

Suggestopedia

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS BASED ON THE

VIDEO
1. What are the steps of the lesson in sequence?
The teacher put some music, and then she asked the
students to listen and watch her carefully while reading
the passage while acting the text. Then she read the
text again without acting it but with different music.
Then she asked the students to read the text together
and act the actions they read out loud.
Then she started teaching them the pronunciation of
words written on the board which are color coded. And
The difference in those words that even though they
ended with an ED they are pronounced once as a T and
once as a D at the end of words.
Then she gave them a chance to distinguish between
them. The students also acted the text out individually
and in groups.
They practiced the past tense of regular and irregular
verbs.
They were given a dictation with the words they
learned.

2. What did the students learn in this lesson?

• What was introduced? Vocabulary and
pronunciation and the past tense of the verbs.
• What points were practiced? Reading and acting
the actions out, the past tense and pronunciation.
• What was mastered? Reading and grammar.
3. How were the four basic language skills (listening,
speaking, reading, and writing) used in the lesson?
Listening first was introduced then reading, and writing.

4. What were the contents of the different posters? What

functions did they fulfill?
Maybe help the teacher to set the mood for the students
to be comfortable and relaxed.
5. Examine the contents of the passage itself. In the
contents, what is suggested? The past tense of verbs.

6. What direct suggestions does the teacher make to the

students?
Listen, act, read, and dictation.

7. Examine the teacher’s manner: What variations do you

see from activity to activity, from beginning to end? What
might explain these variations?
She moves from reading to practicing pronunciation and
grammar and she uses different games or activities to
keep the students alert and focused so that the students
feel comfortable and at ease.

8. What forms of indirect suggestion, beyond the teacher’s

manner, were used?

9. In the initial concert, the teacher asked the students to

both watch the actions and listen to the words being read.
This is an example of an activity with a dual focus. Which
other activities divided the students’ attention? Specify
the focus for each activity.

She asked them to read while one person was acting out
the text. The focus here is on acting the text correctly.
She gave them a dictation, and they were supposed to
correct it themselves. I think here the focus is one self
correction.
Also the dictation focused on learning new words in
addition to the words they have already been introduced
to.