A Descriptive and Critical Evaluation of Teaching Approach and Techniques on Teaching Lexical Phrases in a Video Lesson

Abstract

This paper presents and evaluates all the aspects of a video lesson on teaching lexical phrases. This is a story lesson which is taught by Tony as an ESL (English as a Second Language) teacher amongst twenty ESL upper-intermediate learners. The video lesson is taken from the book called “The Practice of English Language Teaching”. The purpose of the lesson is to describe feeling and speaking skills through lexical phrases. Another purpose of the lesson is to show the significance of “Rapport” as an important relationship between the teacher and learners in the lesson sequence. Additionally, this paper aims at assessing the approach, techniques, teaching aids, classroom activities descriptively and critically. The outcome of this paper is to show an excellent model lesson story and its aspects to ESL and EFL (English as a Foreign Language) teachers