Lesson (Grammar): Possession

About:

This grammar lesson focuses on how to show ownership over something or to express that something or someone belongs to you.

Lesson Plan

Power Point

Reflection:

This lesson was rather boring for both myself and the learners. It might have been better if I had chosen a different theme which would interest High School learners more. Pictures and videos could then have been used to support the theme and captivate the learners. I should have been aware that I would be presenting this lesson on a Friday and thus should have prepared an ice breaker. I must also consider the fact Fridays may not be the best time to teach grammar as most learners hate it.

Lesson: Health and Body

About:

In this lesson I tried to incorporate teach the learners about various cultural aspects which relate to the body and health. I included some facts on traditional healers and on ingqithi. I always attempt to engender language learning in my classes, even if I am teaching about culture and so I created a vocabulary building exercise in my power point.

Below you will find all the documents and slides which I used to create this lesson.

Lesson Plan

Activity

Answers for Activity

Slide Show

Reflection:

One of the critiques I received for this lesson was that I did not include enough isiXhosa in my lesson and had I not included the vocabulary exercise it would have been similar to a History lesson. As such this lesson should be altered to include more isiXhosa vocabulary within the cultural section of the lesson.

In this lesson I also noticed that the learners had lots of fun guessing the vocabulary before I revealed it on screen. If you are afraid of noise, this may not be something that you would wish to try, but honestly the whole class, including myself, had so much fun. It was by far worth the ear ache to see the learners engage with the content so excitedly.