2. English lesson
Traditional classroom
• Checking Homework:
The teacher calls for any homework having
been given in previous classes that the pupils
had to carry out.
▪ Dictation Test:
One very common and well acknowledged
exercise in Greek foreign language classes are
brief (two or three sentences long) dictation
tests relating to the lesson of the previous
class, especially if that was a text to work on.
3. • Teacher appointing students to read new
text:
Usually a unit begins with a text on a popular
topic, or in a specialty topic in Vocational
Education.
• Teacher giving out exercises to carry out in
class:
They might be exercises as questions on the
text, personal opinion questions, vocabulary
or listening exercises.
4. • Grammar:
Seldom in the course of the same class, and
usually in the following class, right after the text
in almost every unit there is a grammatical
phenomenon, which has been addressed several
times in the course of the text, that calls for
explanation.
• Speaking/Writing:
There might be the possibility of several speaking
exercises, based on the topic of the text, enrolling
single pupils, pairs or groups of pupils.
• Homework:
The final step is giving out homework usually in
the form of exercises to be done by each student
at home
5. Traditional classroom
• It is obviously teacher-centered. The teacher is
the ruler of the class, no decision can be made
without them authorizing it, they are in charge of
the entire process, both the steps to be taken,
the way to be carried-out and the time needed
for each.
6. • There is no initiative from the part of the
students. Their job is to carry specific
instructions out, the best they can.
7. • Apart from limiting their decision making abilities, which need
to be encouraged and reinforced at that age, this has the
additional danger that if for any reason the control is lost by
the teacher, there can me a chaos and commotion created in
the classroom that might be difficult to fix, as no one will
know what their role is and how to take charge.
8. • Almost no co-operation. While we all know
how important interaction is in adolescence,
teacher-centered classes tend to isolate
students, and create a sense of stressful and
competitive environment for them to learn in.
