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Comment on the Video Class “He’s Been to Turkey” Introduction The video called “He’s been to Turkey” intend to introduce some ways of grammar teaching. From the video, we can infer that all the students are belong to beginners level. “The ‘False beginners ’ know something about English, but that is not enough to say anything ” (Harmer, 2015, p.94). Students in the video have a little elementary knowledge about English, such as the meaning of different countries, the easiest sentence structure or order. So as a result, the students in the video belong to the beginners level. That is why the teacher design a easy lesson plan but full of repetition and practice. Literature Review In the English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom, there …show more content…

Harmer (2015) said that “By shifting it around in a phrase or a sentence, we can also change emphasis or meaning”. The same word with different stress might be another word, even might had different meaning. If students cannot pronounced the words correctly, there would be misunderstanding of the word. That is why stress is an important point. “The aim of the tense was to establish the use of the Present Perfect with ever to talk about experiences” (Gerngross,2006,p117). Tense determined the time and date of the accidents, in this video we do not know the exact time. As a result, we could just tell from the present perfect tense. Discussion The whole process of this method was controlled by the teacher, he designed the whole procedure and the learning resources. Students have to follow the teacher’s arrangement and study upon the teacher’s supervision. The presentation part is led by the teacher. He shows the students about how the knowledge of the language works. The next one is the practice part, students have a brief understanding of the language point, so the teacher will like the students to practice about it. Maybe in various way such as teacher ask and students answer or pair work or group work and so on. The last part is the production. After acquiring the main information, students began to create new sentences. So according to the video, the high degree teacher controlled

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