Monday, May 6th 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!
Next...
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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Wow Deysi! Your class was excellent! I see that you did your best developing those activities that included them all! I congratulate you because you did very well. You used some interesting tools to motivate the students in class such as famous people, the gummies and your flashcards. Competing is a good way to encourage them to do their best, and you managed yourself to have a very good class. I see a great potential in you as teacher, and I am sure that you will be a good one. Keep up with the good job. Cheers!
ReplyDeleteHi Deysi, nice topics you develop in your class...I can see that you put a lot of effort in the preparation of the materials. It is nice when you have just to have fun with the Ss, and make them forget a little bit about grammar explanations...there are a lot of things that we can share with the Ss, that 50 minutes are not enough for the purpose...but as you said, the goal was to have fun and to learn at the same time...and I know you did...Congratulations!!!1 :)
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ReplyDeleteI really like the idea of making games and competitions, because students can feel more motivated to do the things. And the most important is that they had fun and learned at the same time. And that's great! I could see you did an excellent work during the class. Congratulations.. BLESSINGS
Thanksss...for your comments my dear friends :)
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