Monday, November 4, 2013

The last practice of the last period of the last year of the major!



This is the last time that I tell you hello bloggers. I have reached my last practice and I feel proud of what I have done. The last class was pretty nice for me. I arrived early to the classroom and wrote the agenda that I could develop completely. To start, I just greeted the group. Then, I told them in a please way to use the desks I wanted them to use as I needed the class to be sitting in front of me for the warm up. I divided them in 2. After that, they chose a representative of each group. Those two representatives had to draw parts of the body that I told them. The first group who guessed the word scored a point. The students enjoyed this a lot. Getting in matter with the session, I started to speak about adjectives to describe our faces. In order to do it I asked them to take out their books and work on certain pages. They did that quickly but well. Later on, I passed to the next activity which was the explanation of certain adjectives to describe hairstyles, parts of our face and eyes. I pasted a chart with some drawings to do that and started to release the data I have about the adjectives. I also used drills and provided real examples.}


The next point in the agenda, was an activity of the book called “optimistic or pessimist?” what I liked about this was that all students participated.  The last activity I did by that time was a fill-in-the blank practice on the use of “for” and “since”. It was the last one. I gave each student a page and they did it faster than I thought.
To finish, I just elicited responses and corrected the mistakes that eventually came up. so, people we can say that we are done with this. Now we have to wait for the best to come. Teachers a congratulate you and I do wish you the best. Blesings.

One more and done!



Hello dear bloggers! Thank you for reading. Well, as you already know I’m working with intermediate I time. Let me tell you that for this second class, I was eager to teach. I had prepared some good activities and I knew the students were going to enjoy them. To begin, I greeted the group and gave them pieces of paper that I had already folded for them to write their names and put them on theirs desks, so that I could call students by their names.



As the warm up, I developed the activity “can’t say yes/no”. I gave them pieces of paper and they had to draw a heart; then, they went and asked around questions to one another and the people who said “yes/no” as a reply, they lost. I saw students really enjoyed the game. Once that I had set the mood, I went on. The first activity was about dynamic and stative verbs. The exercise was about sorting. They (the students) did really well this exercise. Afterwards, I had a speaking activity in which the students worked in groups.  It was unfortunate that I had only 9 students, but I still enjoyed it. They discussed some situations as the target structure was modal verbs. Once that they had discussed, I did a TPR activity called “do this, do that”; if I said “do this” they had to follow my movement, and if I said “do that” they did not have to follow what I did. Whenever someone did what they did not have to, there was a penalty and I asked that person to respond me what they had discussed in groups. I really liked that.


As the next point, there was a little practice on subject and object questions. They had already seen that, so it was a review basically. To finish, I developed “moving papers”. This last activity was about modals. I pasted papers on the walls around the classroom. In each of them, there was a situation and they had to write pieces of advice according to the modal they saw above the situation. All the group participated and really enjoyed when I was checking. In that way, I had concluded my second class. It was a very good experience. Hope you all feel the same by this time. Blessings bloggers.

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

The last period thank God


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?
Ø  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.

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Last class in advanced I

Well, the second period is done people. Let me tell you that this time I felt comfortable with my job in the classroom. The communication with my tutor was better than the last time, much better. This time, I was only in charge of the practicing part about narrative tenses; nevertheless, I had to study the topic again since I just remembered a little and I wanted to be sure and, mostly, prepared in case that a student came up with a question. Fortunately, everything went on well.  The last class, I had had problems with discipline. So this time, I was very clear with the class and told them to please respect me. I told them that the fact that I was doing my practices did not give them the right to disrespect me.



I got into the classroom and as I know my tutor, as a warm up, I just asked questions about narrative tenses to which the students responded me wisely.  Right away, I started the class checking a homework they had in the book. To solve this took me like 15 minutes. Afterwards, I developed a fill-in-the-blank activity (all of the activities were written as they had already been practicing speaking). For this, I gave the class 15 minutes as the page contained several exercises. Right after, I started to check. I did the first one and then, I tried to include everyone in the class so that each of them could tell me his/her answer. By the moment a student was telling me the last answer, I had spent 50 minutes of my time, so I knew that it was time to finish. I decided to start the last activity that I had for them which was a reading. I gave directions and they started to work. The rest of the activity was developed by my tutor, hopefully. It was in this way that I developed my last practice of the second period. It’s been a tough period with the practices and I’m hoping to have a better one next time. Thank you for reading. Blessings.

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