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.