Implementing Interactive Methods in Teaching Sociology

I began my lesson by drawing my students’ attention to the objective written on the board and explained the purpose of the lesson was for them able to describe people’s habits and their roles. Next, I showed my students a brief 3 minutes video clip that reinforced the content objective and complemented the essential vocabularies for the lesson. The word list included content vocabulary, for example anthropology, sociology as well as functional language which are listen and describe. Then, I gave each of my students one role card in the form of sentence strip and a picture. I asked them to work in pairs to discuss about the video clip so that they able to match the picture with the correct role card. I told the students that they can use vocabulary

They have information on the card about themselves and their neighbors above and on either side of them. Several of their neighbors have annoying habits. I mentioned to my students that their neighbors’ specific annoying habits, will guide them in corresponding to the floors of the tower block. To do this, my students had to get up and move around the class, asking questions, describing themselves and their habits but at the same time they need to listen so that they able to find their neighbors, and find the right floor on the tower block. On every floor, there are about half of the students who knows the exact location of their rooms, the others should be able to locate themselves using them as reference points.

Example of role card:

You study Russian and are particularly interested in Russian folk culture. You are learning several Russian dances. You have an end room on the third floor and the room on your left is empty, so it is quiet. This activity needed explicit instruction, so I had prepared an instruction card for each group as this activity conducted in the form of cooperative group work, then I went over each step orally. I demonstrated using one role card. I read it aloud but slowly, contextualizing vocabulary words and enunciated clearly. Then, I asked my students to respond by giving ideas which floor should I paste the