Teacher: Ivana Obradović
Discipline: English language
Age of students: 15 years old
N. of students: 14

Flipped Classroom, Cooperative Teaching and Context and Contest

“William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)” – Reading, Speaking and Grammar (Past Tenses) (a double-period lesson)

• Unordered List ItemThe students will read and then retell the text in English language and by doing so they will practice and enhance their language speaking skills.
• Students will be able to summarize the key points of the text.
• The students will analyze and assess other students’ speaking skills and by doing so they will be doing self-assessment as well.
• By the end of lesson students will be able to recognize and identify past tenses in an English text.
• Students will be able to differentiate between Past Simple Active and Passive, Past Continuous and Past Perfect Simple.
• Students will revise forming questions in English.

teacher’s laptop with MS PowerPoint
projector
whiteboard and markers
post-it papers

Oxford Headway Intermediate 5th Edition Student’s Book (textbook and its online version for the projection), pages 40-41
MS PowerPoint presentation
Kahoot.com (https://create.kahoot.it/share/headway-revision-1-t2/09d65f56-6f9c-43d0-8b94-e67f7e879a8b)

1. Teacher reveals and explains the lesson subject to the students.
2. As a part of the flipped classroom activities students were instructed to carefully read the text on William Shakespeare on pages 40 and 41 in their textbooks at home. If there had been words or phrases they didn’t know, they should have looked them up in the dictionary.
3. In the classroom, students are given tasks to work in pairs. Each student has to retell one half of the text they read at home to the classmate they are sitting next to. His/her classmate has to then grade the student’s retelling skill by writing it down on a piece of paper, i.e. without revealing it to the student who is retelling the text. Afterward, the students switch places and repeat the activity now in different roles.
4. After the retelling is completely over, students reveal their grades and discuss why they had given the specific grades to each other. The teacher moderates the discussion and ask students additional questions, if necessary.
5. For the next activity, students are organized into groups of four and each group is competing against each other. The aim is to be the first to list all the verbs from the text “William Shakespeare” and write down its tense (Past Simple Active, Past Simple Passive, Past Continuous, Past Perfect Simple).
6. After the competition, the teacher reveals the answers and the winning group who had written the most correct verb tenses.
7. The students are given post-it papers on which they should write a word from the text on it. They need to pick an unfamiliar word or phrase which they mustn't show to anybody. Students from all groups who get picked for guessing put the post-its on their forehead and ask the class Yes/No questions related to the word. The first person who guesses the word wins and thus their team wins too.
8. The last activity includes the application of context and contest method. The students are asked to think of revision questions which we will use in the Kahoot quiz. The students are asked to read the text again, and to use their notes and textbooks in order to find more diverse questions in our previous lessons as well.
9. The students read the questions along with four different answers (three should be wrong and one correct) to the teacher while he/she composes the Kahoot quiz on the Kahoot.com webpage (https://create.kahoot.it/share/headway-revision-1-t2/09d65f56-6f9c-43d0-8b94-e67f7e879a8b).
10. The entire class then participates in the Kahoot quiz via their smartphones.
11. For the end of the lesson, the teacher announces the winning team and discusses with the students what they have learned.

All in all, the lesson was successful, especially working in pair and group work in which students practiced their cooperative skills and whose good work results showed the importance of cooperative learning. The only downside was the part with flipped learning since some of the students did not read the text they were supposed to read on their own at home.

The lesson was created for the students of the first grade of the secondary vocational school for the computer technicians who are mainly all boys so the tasks which include competition are practically mandatory.