First Period

On Friday 16^th I had my last class of the period in the advanced course.

This time I had to teach grammar, I planned the class with a practice after the grammar explanation. As a warm up, I used the famous Broken Telephone; I divided the class in three groups.  The topic they were studying was reported speech, so I gave them some quotes and they had to change them into reported speech I also tried to introduce the topic of the grammar explanation by using some commands and request because those were the topics that I had to teach. I could see that students were very participative and enjoying the activity. After the warm up I started with the grammar explanation. 

I think that when we have to teach grammar sometimes is too difficult to develop the activities you had planned because for some students is not so easy to acquire the information and at the end it takes more time. After the explanation I gave them some practice about questions in reported speech. When they finished the practice they share their answers to the rest of the class. Unfortunately time was not enough to finfish with the second grammar explanation the topic were commands and requests. But on the other hand I know these things will help me to continue improving. I can say that I really enjoyed the classes and I hoped to continue enjoy the rest of my teaching practice.

First Period

Second Class

I had to teach on Thursday 8^th

 

This time I felt more comfortable than the previous class. In that class I did not teach grammar, I just had to make them practice about the topic they were studying the last class. The topic was about adjective + prepositions so to start the class I divided them in two groups. I dictated some adjectives and they had to write sentences with those adjectives and their corresponding preposition, the group who finished first got a point. That activity helped me to break the ice because they were kind of discouraged, so it helped me to cheer them up. I could see they were enjoying the game. I think the feeling of competition with their classmates increases the desire to participate.  Then I asked them which words they could relate with the word FAMILY, because later I read a concept about family and they had to create their own concept about it. Then I asked them to share their concepts with the whole class.  

 Later I gave them some recycle paper and asked them to draw a picture about how they and their families will be in fifty years also about the changes of the country. When they finished their drawings they had to go around the classroom and explain it to their classmates. Then they explained the drawing to the whole class.  In the next activity I had a listening from the book, I gave them some copies with some questions that they had to answer regarding to the conversation from the listening. After they completed the task we checked the answers. Afterwards I explained them the meaning of some words that were in the listening part.  This time I enjoyed more the class,students were always participating. Something that I do not like is that their classroom is too small, so sometimes it´s difficult to develop some activities. But I know that nothing is perfect so I must learn how to deal with these kinds of things.