My LAST Class!!!

HELLO and welcome to my blog!!!

OMG this is my final entry of this semester because I’m done with the teaching practices and it feels So great, isn’t it guys?

Thanks to my lovely God, I didn’t get nervous in this class which was amazing because I could enjoy it more and I record it too. However, in comparison with my previous lessons this one was not so good as the other ones because it wasn’t so interactive and dynamic; I had to teach grammar and make sure ss understand the topic with a controlled practice and that reduced the time for me to do more active and fun activities.

Nevertheless, I began the class with TPR; we played a game that many of you may already know it by this moment because some of us have done it in our previous classes, the game is called: “Rabbits to your house, Houses to your rabbit and Earthquake!”. It was kind of difficult to explain so I had to explain it twice, but at the end we all had fun. I took advantage of the activity to elicit some vocabulary about furniture, which was the target vocabulary and “Some and any” the target grammar.

The other game that I could do was “The Chinese Whisper” in which the class was split in two groups and each team did a vertical line in front of the board so that the participant of each group who was in front of the board could write the sentence which was sent it orally and secretly by their group. The sentence was given by me to the last two participants of each group at the same time so that they could say it to the person who was in front of them, and this person could say it to the next person and so on till the message could get to the person who was in front of the board. The team who did it faster and without any grammar or spelling mistakes got a point and the team with more points got the prize!!

Well, that was my class and as I told you what I liked the most was the fact that I didn’t get nervous, and that I could enjoy it more, especially the first and the last activity. It was also nice to see the students’ good attitude in this and in the previous class because in the first one they were like not cooperating, so it makes me think that, in that area, I could do a good job too because I motivated them with my enthusiasm, good attitude and also many gummies! Ha-ha…But it worked!! He-he

To finalized, it comes from my heart this beautiful feeling of thankfulness with God and my family because they helped me to have this opportunity and supported me in the “Ups and Downs”. And I’m also thankful with my co-worker for her support and help as well as with my tutors for their pieces of advice and patient and with you my commenters’ friends who have cheered me up with your positive comments, thanks for your time. God bless you all, love ya. <3

My 2nd Class with the Basic Group!!

Monday, May 6^th 2013

こんにちは！

Thanks God this class was better than the previous one because my students got fun and I could enjoy it too!

Most of the things went well; it helped me a lot the fact that I just had to develop activities during the class, which means no grammar. In addition, I put into practice all the pieces of advice that the teacher gave me the last time, which were more related with the kind of activities; he asked me to include more TPR and more speaking activities and that was what I did.

I prepared three competition games with the aim of motivating students to participate; in each game, each group got points, but the group with more points at the end of the class got “the gummies”. The first game was called “Listen to and go to get it!”; for this one, I pasted 18 irregular verbs around the classroom so that one participant peer each group could go to get the verb, which I have mentioned in present tense, and paste it on the board. 

My second activity and game was a Bingo of adjectives, in which winning depended on luck. Taking advantage of the Bingo’s vocabulary, I focused students on the adjectives of appearance and their opposites, and I also provided them a copy with extra vocabulary that had some pictures. Then, I took advantage of the flashcards that I used in my previous class, flashcards of dead famous people, to describe them using sentences in past tense. It was great to see my students participating this time!

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I asked students to make groups of four in order to describe a picture of a dead famous person, this time the flashcards were not the same. Each group wrote 5 sentences and they chose a member of their team to read them aloud.

Finally, we enjoyed the last game, it was a writing game; I pasted a picture of Selena for one team and a picture of Princess Diana for the other team so that each team could write as many sentences as they could in three minutes. The students’ adrenaline was high at that moment, and each group just wanted to win so the girls who had more fluent ideas took the control of the marker and they wrote most of the sentences! It was difficult for me to control that because they were so excited, they just wanted to win, I mean, it was fun, but I didn’t expect that. So, next time, I’ll try to give each student some pieces of color paper which serve as a participation ticket to make sure everyone participate and to avoid having the same students participating J

Well, this was my class and I feel very satisfy of having reached my goal which was: Have fun and learn at the same time, which is great!

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1st Class at Basic English (3rd Period)

Monday, April 29th 2013

Salutations everyone!!

Hope you being doing great.

This period I am teaching Basic with a totally different group of students from the ones that I had taught before inasmuch as this group doesn’t like to participate in the speaking activities; I guess, it is because they are still in a receptive stage in which the listening and the reading activities are easier for them in comparison with the activities that require production such as: the speaking and the writing activities. In addition, there’s something particular about this group; most of these students have failed at least once and actually most of them are about to fail, so this contributes to have a demotivating environment, increasing the lack of confidence in the students by the time of speaking or writing on the board. But thanks God, I have noticed that they definitely enjoy playing games that involve TPR as well as music, so I’ll try to go for that way in my next class.

About my class:

In my opinion, I planned a nice lesson. I used flashcards of dead famous people to have students talking about the past as a warm-up. Next, I split the class in two and had both groups collecting the verbs mentioned in a song (Don’t you worry child – by Swedish House Mafia) 

Then, I explained the grammar with the help of a video which provided many examples and one practice that I developed in general. Next, I gave each student a copy with some exercises to solve: a short reading with some blanks that they had to fill in, some comprehension questions, sentences which they had write in negative, and some unscramble questions. I provided instructions and examples for each exercise as well as I checked them orally. Finally, I did a speaking activity with the unscrambled questions in which ss stood up and interviewed a classmate for one minute. After that minute, they changed roles; they did it three times and my time there was over, so I couldn’t do the last activity which was a TPR game.

All in all, I liked my class despite of the mishaps I had with the projector, the students’ attitude by the time of speaking, and my nerves because I got nervous like in my first :S Anyways, I’m happy and satisfy of having this experience which will help me to better. Learning and Improvement is my goal in my professional life ;) J