Daniella CO #3

Date/Time: October 28th 10am 

Topic/Skill: Grammar, adverbs - Group 3

Dr. Felicia Ciapetta

Dr. Ciapetta is filling in for Professor Rios. She started the class asking "what is an adverb" and "what do you know" about adverbs. She gives the definition out loud. This is all being explained with a display on the screen that is an outline with definitions and examples displayed. She walks through each example sentence asking them to name the adverb. There is a regular back and forth with the professor and the students. Since they reviewed it last week she asks them if they understand it well, since they said yes they move onto the quiz outline. She asks the students to name something on the outline they are not familiar with so that they can practice in class. Explained the past perfect by providing an example sentence and marking words and their meaning. 

When testing their knowledge she asks them a a question for them to answer: "Miguel what have you done today?", "Have you taken a shower this morning?", "Have you cooked breakfast today." This seems to be a very interactive and effective way to teach the present perfect as she asks the students to give a response guiding them through their answer. "Miguel have you gone to the gym today?" "Marianna have you eaten lunch." 

She gives a lot of scenarios out loud as examples for how to use the tenses. For example that the present perfect is to emphasize durations and she uses the example playing out someone waiting very long for someone to show up.

"Tell me one fact about your family." "Tell me one this you do before you go to bed at night," "What did you do for your last birthday," "What did you do at work the last time you were at work," "What is one thing you did at your old school," "Tell us one thing you did last week," "What is your best friend doing," "What are you going to do this weekend," 

She asks these questions to each student one at a time. 


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