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.
Hey George, u know that my warm up was the same!!! jajajajajajajaja what a coincidence isn´t it??? Well my friend, as we know not only students but we as teachers will be expose to commit mistakes, but remember that in this activities it is more convenient for us to be sure, and for them to write in a correct way not just dictate, but to give them the practice sheet.
ReplyDeleteBut, we´re still on the way.....so keep walking George!!!! remember that as in Sherk "ya merito"???? Siiiii "ya merito" jajajajaja Congrats!!!!!
what´s up Sarcenho, let me tell you started the class on the right foot.if the students and the teacher are motivated from the beginning ,the class can be a success, we only have to be careful to maintain that feeling.Students like practicing their knowledge and you did a good job there.you really conducted the class like an orchestra director except for not calling Ss by their names.
ReplyDeleteHello George!!!
ReplyDeleteThe activities you did in your class were nice. It´s nice to see that your students didn’t have problems the activities you developed.
And as your tutor said we have to pay attention to those mistakes made by students. In my case I had the same problem but I´m sure that at the end of this experience we will learn more about it.