Once again, hello bloggers; it’s great that we had started the second
period; hopefully everything will be going on ok. First let me tell you that I
developed my first class with the group of English of intermediate I.
Generally, it is a nice group; the students are very participative and it’s
pretty easy to manage them.
To start the class, I developed a warm up activity called “ping pong
words”. I could see that the students really enjoyed it and that helped me to
set a nice mood and to give time for the late comers. After that, I started
with the first activity. The practice and target structure I had to develop was
about dynamic and stative verbs, an about subject and object questions. I began
with some questions to activate the students’ schema. The majority was used to
the topic; thus I gave copies in which they had to sort some verbs.
The next exercise was about identifying the verbs in those two
categories (either stative or dynamic) but this time, students had context. The
only thing they had to do was to write “correct” “incorrect”. Here’s a sample.
1. Are they having a good time? _______________
2. I am thinking you are a nice
person. _______________
It was nice that students did not
have any problem with this, so they really knew the difference between
them. Having done that, I moved on to
the next part of the class. This was developed individually and it was about
subject and object questions. The purpose here was to identify the right questions
as possible answers to certain sentences. Here’s an example.
I bought a newspaper this morning.
What bought you this morning?
What did you buy this morning?
What you did buy this morning?
What bought you this morning?
What did you buy this morning?
What you did buy this morning?
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Being done with that, I worked
out with the last activity. The idea here was for students to put the words in
the right order to make a question. It was like this: he/who/visit/last week/
I wrote some of them in the board and dictated the rest of them.
However, in the feedback my tutor told me that I had to make sure that the
students write correctly and I did not do it. It is worth to mention that if it
is true that I did not check that, the students did well in this activity. In
that way, I had finished my first class. By the way, something else that the
teacher told me when giving me feedback was the fact of calling the students by
their names; so, people don’t commit the same mistake. Have a nice day, and
thank you for reading.
