My third class

                                                                                Monday, February 18^th 2013.

Salutations Everyone!

Thanks God my third class with the guys of the ACCESS Program was successful despites of the fact that I began it 5 minutes later because the people in charge to open the classroom’s door weren’t there which was very strange because they have always been there the previous times.

This is what I did:

After greeting students and establishing rapport, I did a TPR activity as a warm-up in order to awake students because they are always kind of tired inasmuch as they attend to high-school the whole morning. Thus, they need to be motivated and get into another level of consciousness so that the class will be of benefit. The warm-up activity was called: “Don’t do what you see, but do what you listen to”

Then, I did a quick grammar review by eliciting examples of affirmative and negative sentences as questions and answers with The Simple Present Tense. Next, I gave students a short reading with some blanks which they had to fill in by writing the correct verb. I checked the activity orally by eliciting answers from the students in general. Finally, I did some comprehension questions about the reading.

For the next activity, I did a short TPR game in order to make random trios; it was called: “Rabbits to your house!”. I love this game because students always have fun with it. Then, when students were in trios, I gave them the instructions for the role-play in a sheet of paper and orally too, and I set the time they had to create their dialogues. In the role-play, student A was supposed to be a TV reporter who interviews students B and C who were supposed to be famous people; I asked students to be creative and funny and they were very, very funny by the time they were acting. We all have a lot of fun and laugh with their performances; I tried to make the interviews more vivid by playing talk-shows’ intro music at the beginning, and by playing clapping’s sounds when they finished their interview. It was very cool! After the role-plays, I let students know about the most common mistakes that I could notice during their performance; I did it in general and just as a remainder.

For the wrap-up, we played “ The hot potato”; the lucky student who had the medium dice in his/her hands when the music stopped, talked about his/her habits or daily routines for 30 seconds  without stopping. When I gave students the instructions, I reminded them to use the target grammatical structure, which I consider it’s very important. Finally, I let students know about the most common mistakes that I could notice during their participation and I asked the participants if we should give the rest of the students a candy and they said: “No”; nevertheless, I gave them all a candy.

All in all, what I liked the most from this class was that it was very interactive, It was student-centered, we all had fun and students were excellent actors and participants; I’m going to miss this group!