THE LAST CLASS

Hello my dear classmates and colleagues!

I feel happy because I finished my practices! And I know that all of you feel the same.

My last class was more about practice; the Ss had been studying about the simple present prefect vs. Present perfect progressive.

The warm up activity was “can’t say yes and no” I gave the Ss a piece of paper and asked them to draw a heart, then they had to come to the front and look for a person to ask for a question, but they did not have to answer neither “no” nor “yes” if someone answered with those words, they losT their heart.

After that I played a song called “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for” from U2. I asked the Ss to underline the present perfect in the song then I asked them to make sentences using a part of the lyric of the song.

Then, they have some practices about the topics. And that was my last class, I said bye to them I told them that that had been my last class.

I enjoyed teaching, I knew different groups, it was a nice experience!!

;) 

SECOND CLASS OF THE LAST PERIOD

Hello!! My second class with intermediate I was about verbs patterns

The warm up activity that I developed was clock ‘buddies this is another speaking activity where they had to talk about their English class, their previous topic, what they needed to improve in their English classes, etc. Something that I noticed is that the students did not get directions, so the teacher told me that I need to be more concise and clear when giving directions because some Ss got lost and did not understand what they really need to do.

In the presentation phase they used the books for a reading comprehension about smile, them they answer some questions.

The topic was verbs patterns, so it was like a review that is why I did not take too much time explaining the topic, after that they have some practices and I could see that most of them had forgotten some things about the topic.

My problem now was how to monitor Ss. I insist, the group is very large, and is difficult for me to catch their attention.

I know now that I have to work in this point. Despite of those situations I enjoyed the class, I like teaching because I know that I’m improving and learning at the same time.

 Thanks for your comments!!

Blessings J

FIRST CLASS OF THE THIRD PERIOD!

Hello everybody!!

My first class of the third period was in intermediate I with teacher Hercilia. This is a peculiar group since there are many students, like 25. I started the class with a warm up activity basically in that activity; the students practiced more speaking which is the most difficult skill for them.

The topic was the use of modals, I used a PDP in which the students watched a nice video about the planet, I started by asking them questions about our environment, after that I divided the class into two groups and I gave them two piece of bond paper and I asked one group to draw how they saw our planet in this time, while the other group had to draw how they would like to see our planet in the future, at the end  each group explained their charts.

After the Pre activity they watched the video about the planet, then they discussed some questions related to the topic.

This activity helped them to feel more motivated, I could see how the Ss  paid attention to the video.

Something that I do not like from the group is that some of them do not like to participate at all first, because the group is large and second because most of them are shy.

It is difficult for me to monitor the complete group, I think that I need to improve in that part, and the teacher told me the same in the feedback.

I appreciate her comments because it help me to know what I really need to improve in my last class.

Blessings!!