Second Period

Second Class

I had to teach my second class on Thursday 26^th

At the beginning of the class I could start with most of the students, I started with warm up but in this class the warm up was to check some homework assigned by the teacher the previous class. The homework was about to complete some sentences, as they are studying narrative tenses they had to decide which tense was the appropriate for each sentence.  After that I provided them some sentences, they had to find the different tenses in it. Later I tried to introduce a reading I was asking about embarrassing moments in their lifes. I asked them to tell some of them to the class. 

Then I gave them some pieces of paper and they had to write the one of their embarrassing moment and then paste them on the board. I read some of them and asked about those moments.  When I finished with that activity I gave them a reading about embarrassing moment. They had some minutes to read the story and then I started to make questions in order to check if they got the main ideas of the story. Later they had to complete the second part of the story with the correct form of the verbs. They had to use simple past, past continuous, past perfect and past perfect continuous. When they finished the activity I asked them for their answers. As a last activity I asked them to write on their notebook one embarrassing moment they had faced, they had to write details and use narrative tenses. But unfortunately I couldn’t finish the activity because time was not enough. After they had wrote their embarrassing moment I had to ask them to share them to their classmates, but I couldn’t do it.  

Second Period

Today I had my first time teaching in the advanced course.

This time I did not have to teach grammar, I only had to provide some practice. I arrived early to the classroom in order to prepare everything. This time I was not nervous the only thing is that I did not feel well because I got flu and cough, so it was difficult for me to be explaining and giving directions. But anyways as teachers we had to do our best even when we do not feel so good. I started the class with the activity called ´´Find Someone Who´´; students had to go around the classroom in order to complete the activity. 

The group is nice but the only problem is that most of them are latecomers. And unfortunately by the time I started the class most of the students were missing, there were only five or six students, later I checked some of their answers. Then I asked them to work in groups of three, they played a board game in which students had to create questions using future perfect and future perfect progressive. Later we checked some of the questions they made. As a last activity I had a role play, I gave them different situations. They had to work in pairs; I gave them some time in order to prepare the role play. Fortunately time was enough, so all the students had the chance to pass and performed their situation.