Friday, March 22, 2013


My second experience with the group of intermediate II was nice. Though the weather was very hot, students collaborated with all the activities I developed. Thank God, I did not have to explain any grammar point. If I mention this, it’s because the weather would have not been in my favor to do it; it would have been a difficult session in that sense. However; the class was just about practicing the future forms “will” and “going to”.


To start the class, I greeted the group and asked some questions about the future forms they had been recently seeing. I used those questions as a warm up. I took around 4 or 5 minutes to do it. Afterwards, I put the students to work in pairs; it was a speaking activity. Every 2 or 3 minutes I provided a question so that they could discuss with their partner. The development of this activity took around 15 minutes. I monitored what they were doing all the time, and, at the same time, I got involved with them by interacting with one another. I really like to monitor in that way as you become, to some extent, part of the group of students and the role of being the teacher is not so remarked in the classroom. You take a more passive role so the class becomes student-center. Here's a video of me monitoring and interacting with my students.


As the period of vacation is about to begin, the next activity was a single question. I asked them if they were going to do anything special for these holidays. This was done working in groups; I provided some ideas of what they would probably do. I spent over 10 minutes for these as some of my students share their thoughts and opinions with everybody.


 The next point in the agenda, and the last one, was some role plays. I divided the class in 4 groups and a representative of each group passed to pick up a piece of paper which contained the topic they were meant to develop in the role play. This activity took around 25 minutes as I gave 10 to prepare the conversation and 15 for the groups to pass to the front and perform their work. Some of the topics were planning the next vacation trip, planning a trip to another country, planning a birthday party, among others. All of them using the future forms. While developing their role plays, I took some notes in regards with the mistakes they had committed. At the end, I wrote them on the board and it was in this way that I finished my second class with this group. I think students did not get bored as they all were involved and participating all the time as well as me. Here’s a video of my students developing this activity (the role plays). Sorry for the audio.  

6 comments:

  1. Hello George.I can see that the main activity you developed was focused on their vacation ,which made it meaningful for them.They had something authentic to talk about.It was just brilliant! Congrats for doing your best.
    on the other hand, there are some other aspects you managed properly for example: time managemnet and error correction.Nice job ,man.

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  2. Mr. Zarceño! Every student has a model or type of teacher that wants to accomplish and let me tell you that while reading this blog I could remembered teacher Blanco's classes. They were more about speaking and not playing. I really like this type of teaching and I bet your students were really happy with this class because they had the opportunity of speak in English. Nice activities to evoke oral production! And the role of the teacher that you develope as a monitor was excelente! Nicely done mister chorche!

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  3. Hello George!!..
    Wow let me congratulate you because you have shown a great commitment to your group. I like the activities you developed. Since the group has now a more advanced level of English, they are somehow able to do activities that required a more active role from their part.
    It is a good idea to have real examples or situations, and it was great for you to use the fact of the vacation time.
    I know you are very serious, but above all through the videos and your blog I can see that is not necessary to be playing all the time.
    Nice work Mr. Zarcehno

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  4. Hello George! I want to congratulate you because you did a nice blog, and you explained every single detail from your class. I enjoyed watching the videos and pictures and I could see that you will be a really nice teacher.

    I think all of us had problems with the weather this week. It was so hot, but Thank God you did not need to teach grammar, so your students did not get bored.

    I liked that you took advange of these vacations developing activies based on that. I could see that your students worked with entusiasm.

    GOOD JOB GEORGE!!!

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  5. Hello guy, it is really nice to read this kind of experiences, now it seems that you are enjoying what you are doing and that is the point, you kept your students active and that's the key to keep them working!! i see you brought group activities and that really help them to interact with one another.
    Nicely done;)

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  6. Hi George! I am glad you had a nice experience! I like the way you developed your class, you managed it very well, and I could see that your students enjoyed and learned a lot. Another thing I could notice is that you always have a smile in your face and that is great!! Congrats my friend!!

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