Once
again bloggers, HELLOOO! It is nice to know that we are in our last semester.
We almost finish the major, and I am happy because of that. Let me tell you
that for this first class, I prepared only two activities. For this period I
was assigned the English Access program. I can say that the group is really
nice. I could notice that they are willing to learn English, and when you have
a good attitude from your students, and to that you add the fact that you
really want to do your best, I think everything works better.
To
start the class, I developed a warm up called “throw the ball”. I gave my
students a little ball, and the one who caught the ball had to say a verb in
simple present and then throw the ball to another classmate. The other student
had to say the verb that the person who previously threw him/her the ball had
said, and so forth. I saw my students enjoyed the activity (BTW the topic was a
review of the simple past tense). As I said, I only prepared 2 activities. The first
one I developed was a famous “find someone who”.
As the topic was the past
tense, I gave my students a piece of paper which had some situations which, at
the same time, had to make students form questions with the target language and
also respond them. Everybody interacted with each other, and that is what I
wanted. I got involved with them and I saw they enjoyed going around and
speaking with all their classmates. Then, I elicited some of the answers that
the students had given. It was nice. Once I was done with that activity, I
developed the second one which was called “Tell me about…”
For this, I asked my
students to form groups. I told them to count from one to four, so that at the
end the “ones” work together, the “twos” the same, and so on. Afterwards, I
gave each group a set of cards which contained some topics. I told them to put them face down. As they
were a lot of cards, I asked them to take turns to speak about the topic they
got. I think this was successfully achieved. I see my students speaking a lot;
also, I clarified many doubts since they are pretty curios about many words,
and that made feel cool as I had no problem to cope with that.
To
close, I must say that the TTT was perhaps a %15 or %20 of the class; hence,
the STT was like %80 or %85. I saw that you have to put them to work, so that you
give the majority of participation to them. It was nice. It is very different
to work with adults than children. You have to be prepared for everything with
them. To finish the class, I just elicited some of the opinions that the class
had been discussing with the cards. I thanked them for their collaboration, and
that was it. A truly nice experience. (I owe you pictures btw).
