For my third hour of observation, I sat in on ESAL 0450, which is an advanced oral communications class. The classroom was set up with a mixture of individual desks and desks arranged in groups. I felt that this was a good setup as it allowed for students to choose to sit in groups or individually while still providing an easy space for group work to take place in. The class began with the teacher calling one student to the front of the class in order to tell the class about their weekend. The student did not seem surprised or taken off guard by this, so I believe it was something discussed prior to the start of class. The students told the class about a show that they had seen in Vancouver over the previous weekend and what it was about. The show that the student watched was surrounding politics and allowed the student to demonstrate their ability to logically describe events that took place in the past without time to prepare for questions. The teacher then segued the story into the day’s topic. The topic on this day was requests and answers to requests. The teacher had the students start by going over a few examples of the topic and encouraging students to participate and ask questions during this time. After this, the teacher explained a game to the students and had the students begin playing. The game the teacher had the student’s play resembled go fish, with students asking if one of their groupmates was able to do a certain task or chore. The students continued to play this game until just before the one-hour mark of the class. Upon ending the game, the teacher asked the students to hold up any cards that they did not understand and tasked the other student teacher and me in the room with writing out what the cards meant. After all the questions were answered the students took a break, and I ended my hour of observation. The language skills included in this class were speaking and reading. Students had to be able to read the cards in their hands in order to know what questions they must ask their group mates well also needing to understand how to properly form the necessary questions. The general atmosphere of this class was good, students seemed to enjoy the game as they were often heard laughing with their group mates, despite this however the students stayed on task and asked numerous questions about any words they came across that they did not understand. From this observation, I learned that even though students may get a little distracted during activities and games it is important to remember that they may still be on task and to check before assuming that they are not.