FIRST CLASS (SECOND PERIOD)

Salutations everyone!!

On Wednesday September 4^th, I taught my first class of this second period in Intermediate I; it was in the afternoon and with the group I was recorded teaching last semester.  The groups’ behavior is very good because they are very respectful, easygoing and they also work and participate in class.

Thanks God, I had a very good experience with this group; my tutor liked my lesson and the way I developed it. Nevertheless, we are still learning and we commit mistakes, aren't we? Well, what the teacher told me that I should improve was regarding the shy ss' participation...Mmmm...this is the second time I was told, so I'm going to do my best to be more aware of this situation in my next classes and I'll try to avoid it. 

In regard with the lesson, it wasn’t challenging at all to create it or develop it inasmuch as it was about “Adverbs of definite and indefinite frequency”. So, I began the class with a speaking activity which helped ss remind their previous knowledge about the target grammar. It was a “Find someone who...” activity for which I wrote on the board “Do you…?”,the question structure that ss used to make questions and complete a chart which I gave them in a piece of paper like this:

Find someone who…	Name
Usually watches T.V. at night

 After ss finished, I checked the activity orally by making questions in general; for example: “Who usually watches T.V. ….?”, and finally I asked ss to tell me the adverbs of frequency they recognized in the chart and they did it.

Next, I continued with the grammar part for which I used a PowerPoint presentation; take a look to it:

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The topic was easy, so I only explained it twice and they go it; the first time was with the presentation and the second time during the general practice. For the practice, we did an interactive exercise for which they had to find the mistakes in a very short reading, which was in the presentation. Then, I gave ss a worksheet containing some statements and “Adverbs of definite and indefinite Frequency” in parenthesis which they had to put in the correct place in each of the statements.

Finally, I asked ss to work in groups of five and I gave a picture to each member of each group so that they could use them to make questions by using this structure: “How often do you…?”. I modeled the activity as always and after some minutes I checked it by asking one participant of each group to share his/her question and the answers his/her classmates said.

To sum it up, the class was cool; I liked it, I enjoyed it, we laughed and I think my ss liked it too, and the most important thing: we all learned from it.

Thanks for reading my blog and for your comments beforehand ;D