Third class, third period

Well, now in my last class the teachr told us to review all the topics we have been teaching, so I decided to make all my activities in that way. First of all, I started the class with the very known warm up called "Head, shoulders, knees and toes"; all the students participated in teh activity even the late comers that joined after some minutos; every time a student made a mistake in the game she or he had to answer some questions about multiple intelligences or how to stay focused that were some of the topics previousl taught. The actuvity lasted for five or seven mintes and after that I started reviewing about the grammar points they saw during the whole unit; one of them was subordinating conjunctions, so the following activity was a wordsearch that included many subordinating conjunctions and students had to find at least 10. After that, they were asked to complete some sentences with subordinating conjunctions and transitions, ythey were fifteen sentences and after some time I checked orally if they had the sentences correct and they made just few mistakes which means that they understood the topic. Then, students were asked to stand up and make an activity in pairs reviewing multiple intelligences, the activity was called mirrors and what they had to do was that they had to be face to face speaking and the person in front had to be doing the same things and saying the same things the other was doing, they had much fun with the activity. At the end I checked some exercises they had as homework and I said some farewell words thanking for their cooperation and attention.

Second class, Third period

In this second class with the group everything was different and better because I had more confidence already with the group and because I knew in a better way how they were and how they behaved in class. This time I started my class with a warm up activity in which the students had to split in two groups and they had to choose a representative, each group will have a representative that would make gestures or actions so that the group guessed the animal or famous person they were representing, students had much fun with the activity. After that I started to explaina little bit about the new topic, but linking it with the previous one that was subordinating conjunctions and transitions because this new topic was transitional words or expression, I had to explain for kind of transitional expressions and give some examples of them; then students went to page 82 in their books and they had to discuss about a previous passage they were reading, in pairs they had to talk about the things that help them to be focused or concentrated and if any of the tips they read previously was useful for them or if they have triend them before. Inmediatly after that they listed the things that make them stay focused and the things that make them loose concentration. Then, students moved to page 83 in which they had new words or vocabulary and then they had some sentences in which they had tu used those new words, but before they made that exercise we were discussing and I was explaining the meaning of those words so that they had a better idea of them. This second class was more related with the book and the activities they had there, but students were really attentive and they understood the transitional expressions.

First class, third period.

Now this time the level I was assigned was advanced; at the beginning I was nervous because this is a level that requieres a litte bit more attention and care due to the complexity of the topics you have to teach. I went to the classroom once to observe the class, the group and get familiar with the group of students I was going to have, so I noticed that most of the students are in the same level and most of them understand very well the topics they see. Then on Wednesday 28 it was my first class, before the class started I wrote the agenda and the date as I have learned through all these classes. We started the class with a warm up activity in which students had to create an story in an oral way listening first what theirs classmates said to continue the story, each of them said something and added something to the story. After that I presented the topic with one listening that was in the book, they had to think first in some ideas or words they think could be in the listening according to one image they had in their books. Then the listened the conversation three times to answer some sentences and check at the end if they answered correctly. After all that, it was the time to present the grammar point of the day that was transitions to connect sentences or paragraphs, I explained three of them, their meaning, their use, and their main difference with subordinating conjunctions that was the previous topic, so inmediatly after the explanation students worked in one exercise they had in their books in which they had to circle the correct transition or subordinating conjuntion in a paragraph. Besides those grammar points students were also exposed to another topic that was multiple intelligences and after they made the grammar exercise they were given a page in which they had to find different careers in a page and then discuss with a partner about the career they like, why they liked like one and if that career was related with a multiple intelligence; all the students participated in the activity and they had fun explaining why they would like to study another career. Almost at the end of the class students were asked to create a conversation about the topic they wanted, but using some ideas of the previous exercise or the grammar point they just saw, they decided to create it about their favorite careers and then aster some time preparing the conversation and because of time some groups passed to the front to perform their conversations; all the students were paying attention and the class finished after they did that. I believe they liked the kind of activities developed in the classed because they showed their satisfaction at the end by clapping. I really like this group because they all participate in class and I hope I can improve in the following classes in the aspects in which I was not excellent in this first one.

Second Teaching Second Period

This was the second time I had to teach the group and as I did last time I knew they are very participative and they liked most of the activities I presented them, so I was going to keep my style and teach in the best way improving many things. This time the topic was Present Continuous meaning future. At the beginning of the class I asked them to stand up and make a big circle because we were going to play the hot marker, as we did not have a potato, so while they were passing the marker I was singing and when I stopped the one with the marker had to say a sentence using the present continuous but meaning something that is being done at the moment because they had previously saw that topic. Then as a presentation of the topic they were asked to work on page 52 of the books in a short conversation in which they listened first and then practice the conversation with a partner. After that, I began to explain the grammar point of the class which was the use of present continuous used when we say we have planned something to do in the future. After I explained they seemed to understand everything so I decided it was time for them to practice and students had to complete an exercise in which they had to write the correct use of the present continuous and the good thing was that some of them had doubts, so I was walking around all of them while they were working and some students called me when I passed next to them to reinforce what I just said about the topic. After that I asked students to write five things they were going to make in the afternoon and then share those things with all the classmates. At the end of the class some volunteers passed to the front and said in sixty second all the things they planned to do for vacations. This time the class was even better because it was reflected in their satisfaction and also in the grade I got.

First Teaching Second Period

Now in this second period I had to teach the basic section; at the beginning I was a Little worried because they are students who are just starting and you have to adapt to their level. The first topic I had to teach was the use of “some” and “any” for countable an uncountable nouns. The topic was very nice because you have many different ways to teach this, so I went there to the class and started the group with a warm up in which I wrote some letters of the alphabet on the board and the students had to go and write the fruits or vegetables they found and fit for every letter; they really liked the activity because they were challenging each other, and I decided that they had to write fruits because food was also a secondary topic for the lesson. After that turned to explain the use of “some” for countable and uncountable nouns in the affirmative and interrogative form and then the use of “any” for countable and uncountable nouns in the negative and interrogative form; just to check if they did understand the grammar point I explained I passed a completion exercise in which they had to write “some” or “any” and most of them did it correctly. Almost at the end of the class the students had to stand up and interview two of their classmates about all the food they had in their fridges, but they were asked to use “some”, “any” or even “there is” and “there are” which they previously saw. At the end of the class the students were asked to perform a role play in which they had to order something in a restaurant. During all the class students had some doubts with some words so after every activity I tried to explain all the new words and meanings. I felt satisfied with the class, but I knew that I can improve it so I will do my best in the next one because there were some aspects in which I failed like having an specific objective for the class.

My Third Class

Hello everyone! I hope you have had a great time teaching in every of the groups you had to teach to. I want to share with you my third experience in teaching, and let me tell you that I loved this third class because everything was very nice! I started making a warm up where students were asking questions to each other but they did not have to say YES or NO. Students likes the activity and the all participated. But after that something really cool happened, and it was that someone who has come from United States wanted to talk with my students and they looked very excited for that; I think that created a more positive environment in my class because after listening to the lady all of them were more willing to participate in the class. Everything went well and even the teacher told me that this one the best of the three classes I gave. At the end, I wish them the best and thanked them for the attention they gave, so I can say that this teaching experience was amazingly good.

My second class

This time was not as the first one becasue I already knew more the group and they even had more confidence with me. This second time I had to talk a little bit of something that I also did in the first time which was modals, I brought some written exercises they had to complete and they did it well. Something happened to me in this second class, they were supposed to make an activity in which they were going to take some information and read it in front of the class, but something happened and I forgot those copies. For some minutes I got very nervous because I already had what I was going to do and suddenly everything changed, but what I did is that I told them to imagine the information because it was about a medicine, so I told them to think in a medicine and that from that they imagined, they were going to take the information; thanks God everyone understood and the activity could be developed in a nice way. This second class was very good, but I want to get even more prepared for the next one because it will be the last class with that group so it has to be unforgettable. I'll tell you later about it.