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Unit 6 was about video lessons. There were two different teaching methods. In the first video, there were a lot of negative and unprofessional behaviours of the teacher that somehow affected the course of the class and made the students feel uncomfortable and intimidated. There was an unfriendly entrance and not an introduction, didn't even ask about their names. He didn't use any of the ESA methodologies correctly. The Engage phase was skipped. The grammar points were not clearly explained and there few examples. He didn't remain positive throughout the entire lesson and he would respond with negative feedback everytime the students didn't give correct answers. Saying sentences like: 'These are regulations that I was talking at the beginning, but nobody got me', discourage students and make them feel like they don't have the ability to learn properly. Students did not interact with one another. During the second part of the study phase, he didn't explain at all the gap-fill exercise they had to do and didn't give them a one-minute-warning before they could finish. Telling them to do it as quickly as possible puts them under pressure. Drinking water and checking his phone several times is absolutely unprofessional. He was correcting the right forms of don't and can't while students were working on the worksheet. He should have done it during the study phase. He didn't have good control of the game during the activate stage, mixing students' names and focusing too much on himself, saying sentences like 'I am the referee here, you are not'; or I decide because I like this side'. I didn't like at all that he was making fun of the students' answers most of the time. Lesson 1 was far from being a proper methodology for teaching English to speakers of other languages. But I liked the fact that he entered barefoot in the classroom, somehow to adjust to their culture. In lesson 2, everything was quite the contrary of lesson 1. There was a good entrance and proper introduction of the teacher and asking students about their names. The teacher used an ESA methodology by covering all its stages correctly. The teachers was very funny, entertaining and open to students' answers and suggestions by making them feel comfortable and not intimidated. The lesson had a very good flow; teacher-student interactions was very high, as well as the participation of the students. During the Engage phase he used realia, mime, actions and real objects to elicit the use of can/can't and do/don't. The grammar points were clearly explained and the 3x3 drilling during the study phase. He was checking his plan and notes time after time; that's what good teachers do. He had a friendly and relaxed manner of teaching and maintaining discipline at the same time, using the students'' names He had good eye contact, appropriate gestures and clear voice with different varieties and projections. He had good control of the entire lesson. Both lessons had a U class arrangement that made the students have eye contact with one another. I can say that there are a lot of countries that teach like the first lesson. But for me, the second one is more appropriate and more educative for students.
