First Class ( 3rd Period )

Aloha my dear friends!!

I hope you be doing great, by this moment I hadn’t had time to check your blogs, but I will as soon as I finish writing mine ok ;D

Well, first of all let me tell you that this time I’m teaching Intermediate I again, but with a different group. This group has only 14 students and they seem to be nice and kind as well as kind of shy.

My class was good, but not so good as I would have liked it because at the beginning of it I was very nervous which was very strange because I didn’t feel like that; maybe it was just a reaction for being with a new group after 5 weeks without teaching as a practitioner inasmuch as 15 minutes later, I started behaving pretty much as normal.

In regard with the lesson, it was very good; the ss, the teacher and I liked the activities because they were interactive and interesting. The target grammar was the modal verbs “Must and have to”.

The warm-up was cool and fun, I asked ss to stand up and make a circle in front of the board in order to play “the hot potato”; the ss knew the game so I didn’t explained that much. We played the game three times and the student, who had “the hot potato” in their hands when the music stopped, gave a piece of advice for a problem given by me; I helped ss to imagine the problems by showing them flashcards; these were the problems:

1.        The child really needs to do “number 2” 

      in the toilet, but the toilet is too high 

      for him. What would you advise him?

2.       The little pig is sad because he went 

      with his mother to the market and he 

      got lost. What can he do now?

3.       Whenever this guy is in front of the girl 

      he likes he starts to stutter. What does 

      he have to do in order to solve his problem?

The next activity was a brainstorming about all the modal verbs the ss listened in the previous game and the ones that they knew; this helped me to introduce ss in the target grammar.

The grammar explanation was interactive and interesting, for it I used a video and two charts; the video helped me to explain how to use and when to use the target modal verbs as well as their forms in the different tenses. I played a part of the video; then, I reviewed that part and CCQ ss by using the charts, and I felt glad when they responded correctly. I did the same with the other two parts.

Next I continue with the control-practice, for the first exercise ss worked individually in order to fill in the blanks with “Must or Have to” and for the second one they worked in pairs in order to fill in the blanks with “Mustn’t or Don’t have to”. I checked them both orally and I felt happy because almost everybody had all the answers correctly.  

As a wrap-up, we play another fun game for which ss formed two groups and I gave to each group a little package containing scramble sentences which they had to unscramble and paste them on the board; in addition, they had to analyze the sentence and choose whether to use must/have to, or mustn’t/ don’t have to in each sentences inasmuch as two of these choices were in each package and they were highlighted with red color to avoid confusion. The team who pasted most of the sentences first and correctly won claps from the other team.

Finally, I thanked the ss for their participation. They were nice.