Thomas CO #1

I sat in Marilyn Sohan’s Listening class. She introduced me as well as a new student and after that, she asks the class how to navigate to BlackBoard and perform tasks such as submitting homework. She speaks slowly enough for the international students to understand and the students do their best to answer her questions. She also goes over a listening log assignment where the students are supposed to watch an American movie and answer some questions. She then goes over the lesson material with the class. For this particular lecture, the topic is related to soccer. Before jumping into the exercises, she goes over the vocabulary very thoroughly. She asks the class what each of the vocabulary words means, such as retiring and each student tries his/her best to answer. The class then listened to an audio clip and she broke students into groups to answer questions. She also makes sure to get students focused on English by encouraging them not to use their native language in class. This class was very interesting and I feel Marilyn Sohan is a good example of what an EFL teacher should be like.