Rodent1982 seems to have local knowledge so what he says may be correct for the school he flies from, most T/Ls I know of would not have you doing the take off, and there would be a brief on effects of controls (just the basics of this), you would then do this excercise in the air with you doing most of the flying, how much sightseeing vs handling you do would depend on what YOU want to do. If I was instructing on this I would then let you do as much of the approach and landing as possible and have often managed to get the student landing the aircraft on this - usually a better landing than when they come to this as a lesson, probably because they are doing as I tell them rather than trying to sort it for themself!