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In the first video, I believe it was clearly the mistakes teachers do in class. The teacher starts off the lesson by not introducing himself, he seemed very serious and jumped into the lesson straight away. He asked students to participate while not simplifying his question for students with different abilities, hence, wasn't able to elicit the information from them. When the students answered incorrectly which implied they might've not understood the lesson, he answered by saying \"no no\" and didn't rephrase the question or simplify it. In the engage phase, the lesson was awkward and uncomfortable, and seemed like it was only teacher talking time rather than teacher-student talking time. Moreover, he showed disappointment when students were not participating and stated how \"easy\" the answer was. He then gave the class his back, allowing students to have side talks, while he wrote down the lesson on the board. He repeated the same mistakes in the following questions. Unwillingly, he kept jotting down the grammar lesson without explaining what he was writing on the board held his papers which wasted student-attention time. Then, he asked them whether they understood the lesson or not and did not explain the rules of the grammar lesson. When he did not understand what one student was telling him, he said he did not understand her, ignored the question, and moved along. The teacher did not seem like he understood what he was doing when he scratched his head and said \"they are kind of...\"and \"I'll tell you later\" when replying to a question from a student. Next, he passed around a paper for each student without explaining what it was for, and sat down while the students looked puzzled not using their pens and papers. Repeatedly, he explains how this exercise wasn't difficult even though he didn't explain what was expected of them. Also, he asked one student what the answer was and stated that his answers were correct without explaining to the rest why it was so. The students were left when another student answered incorrectly, he did not point out why puzzled. The students ended up shouting answers and the activity seemed unorganized and noisy. He then moved on to another group discussion and gave one example of how he expected them to answer, which was a a tiny positive action for the class. When he asked another questions and the students weren't able to answer, he stated the answer himself and moved along to another question. Doing this, he did not give enough confidence for the students to participate. What was evident was his body language which threw him off as uninterested. He was also dull and monotone. He allowed students to shout out random answers without addressing them and after that, he gave out another activity sheet and did the exact prior mistakes. Next, he adds other sentences to the lesson on the board without fully explaining why step by step. He finally asks them to copy the lesson from the board and then wiped the whole board which was a waste of time and asked them to do another activity. However, it wasn't clear what was expected of them again. He then asks for paper and wastes the lesson which was supposed to be ready and prepared from the beginning of the lesson. He did not write a \"big question\
