Second Class (Second Semester, First Period)

HILARIOUS EXPERIENCE!

Konnichiwa my bloggers!

Yesterday I taught my second class with the Intermediate I group and it was a nice class because we all have fun and learn at the same time.

As I told you in my previous entry, most of the students are boys who are so outgoing and who like to joke around, which is good when you need their participation and to have a fun environment in the class. Nevertheless, you have to lead them correctly; you don’t have to be “so tight neither so loose” otherwise they may feel and behave inhibited or they may do a party in the classroom! Thanks God, the teacher told me in the feedback that she liked my classroom management.

I began the class by playing an Bingo of Adjectives…

      

Then, I did a quick grammar review about Adverbs of Manner; I wrote some of the spelling rules to make adverbs of manner from adjectives and I used some of the adjectives of the Bingo as examples.

Next, I asked ss to form two groups to do a competition game for which I gave each group 12 of the Bingo’s flashcards so that they could write the correct adverbs of manner by using the given adjectives. The group with fewer mistakes would win candies…

…I checked each group’s answers on the board so that they could learn from their mistakes and group 2 won the candies!

The next activity was a mimic game in which participants were chosen by playing the hot potato…And here is when the HILARIOUS MOMENT comes…

                   

To begin, the teacher didn’t take the CD player to the class so I asked the students if one of them could sing and one of them agree, so he went to the board and started singing while the rest of the class passed the CANDIES…yes :$ CANDIES…I thought it was going to be a good idea that the object that students will pass were candies…for sure that was a bad idea because they eat them! …

While the game I heard ss laughing, but I thought they were laughing because of their classmate’s voice…I didn’t get angry, I just started laughing and I said: Come on! The people who ate the candies should come to the board to do some mimics. And some of the students stood up and did it.

While the mimics we all continued laughing with these boys…the words they mimicked were adjectives which were used in the final activity, which was a fill in the blanks.

All in all, every group I have taught at the University has been different, but any of those groups have behaved as this group; I hope you don’t misunderstand me because they are participative, friendly and respectful, but if you give them the opportunity to do a prank they will. So Warning with them! Ha-ha