last class, third period , English Access

Well, my last class with English Access finished today, and it was a very nice experience because they like to participate and help you to do all the things that you want to do inside the classroom. They are very energetic and do things because they enjoy and like doing them.

The first thing that I did in this last class with English access group is that I brought some pictures to teach items related to personal care. I brought certain pictures and I  brought the name of each item and put them in disorder for they to put them in the correct pictures.

As the topic was quantifiers I made sentences using the vocabulary studied. I taught grammar using the pictures for they to understand the countable and uncountable nouns as well.

After explaining each quantifier, I asked them to practice by making a fill in the blank activity. They worked like five minutes doing this and after this I asked them for answers and all of them wanted to participate and say the answers.

After doing this I asked them to write three sentences choosing three of the quantifiers and then I asked them to say the sentences aloud.

Then, the last activity was to whisper. They had to pass the sentence to their classmates, whispering on their ears the sentences and write them on the board. They did it well and enjoyed doing it.

The teacher told me that I did not give too much time students to create the sentences and just some of them had it. In other words I was running. These are all the things that happened and I am really proud of myself because I taught all the classes without having any troubles with any teacher and all my classes were well developed. I thank God for all the things that He did and for helping me to do it in a very nice way.

Second class English Access, last period 

Every moment that i get inside a classroom, i find something new for me and many challenges that help me to be better and face all the obstacles that might appear in the future. Today it was my second class with English Access group. It was nice to see how they work and to see that they are very enthusiastic of learning the language.

Well, the topic was phrasal verbs .Today the first thing that I did is that I did a TPR activity in which I brought some instruments to perform, and I used the phrasal verbs that I was going to teach. It helped me a lot because in that way they memorize the verbs and understand the meaning. This is one of the things that I liked that best.

Then, I came up with written sentences in which they could apply grammar. After doing this I asked to some students for sentences and they did it quickly and they did not hesitate on telling the sentences.

After doing this I asked them to complete a fill in the blank activity in which they had to complete the sentences using the phrasal verbs studied. They had ten minutes to do this, and then we checked all the sentences all together, and we solved this.

Then, I did the last activity which was Simon says. Students got fun and enjoyed this activity a lot. I really like this activity because they play and get fun at the same time.

In the observations the teacher told me that this class was very nice that she really liked it, I just have to be careful with time because I took too much time on doing the fill in the blank activity.

 

first class, last period

As every first class I started with enthusiasm and with all the feelings, and I did my best to motivate the students doing funny and meaningful activities. In this time I got English access again, and I am with teacher Marcela. The topic was Past Progressive.

I am really admired of how students had learned, and how they produce the language. I remember the first practice that I did, I did it with them, and it was kind of difficult for me because they did not understand what I asked them to do, but now it is totally different they have learned a lot, and I can say that teachers are doing a great job.

But talking about my class the first thing that I did is that I showed some flashcards for they to create sentences orally base on the picture. I really liked this activity because it helped them to practice. After doing this, I gave them the flashcards to practice the questions and answer the questions, as well.

Then, I came up with a fill in the blank activity related to the activity and they did it very fast. There were no questions. After doing this, we checked the answers, and  all of them were well done.

After this I gave the flashcards again, and I asked for sentences base on the pictures; after this we checked the sentences that they did, and just one student did it wrong, but then; everything went well.

Then, I came up with a speaking activity which was called”find someone who” it was cool because they were very exciting answering questions and asking what they did one day before.

I really liked my class it was very nice. I liked it especially because the students participate a lot and help you developing the activities that you bring for them. I love this group!!!

Third class, Intermediate

In this class I felt more confident, and I felt very nice because I did my best. Although in most of the cases teachers have something to tell you. Let me tell you that I had never gotten few comments of teachers they always have something to say. Sometimes we got angry because we think that we did it in a very nice way, and it seems that we did not do it in the way the teacher expected, but anyways every person has his own opinions.

To talk about my class, the first thing that I did is that I wrote a word on the board referring to the topic which was related to beauty. Then, I asked students to tell me what comes to your mind when I mention this word, and they started saying words. As they were saying, I was writing next to the word.

Then, I brought some pictures to studied new vocabulary, and then; I gave them a piece of paper with a new word on it for put it next to the picture. After doing this I checked if all of them were well done.

After doing this I asked them to go to page 52 in which I asked some questions related to beauty such as massages, haircuts, pedicures, manicures, etc. It was nice because they were telling me what people use in order to do these things, and they used the vocabulary studied.

Then, I gave some examples about quantifiers, and they were asking questions. After this, I asked them to create sentences using the vocabulary studied. It was nice because they were putting into practice all the vocabulary that we studied the same day.

After this, I gave them a fill in the blank activity, and they were working for some minutes in this. After this I asked for responses, and they did it in a very nice way. I really liked it because I could notice that they did in a correct way.

 

Second class second period

This was the second class, and I think that it was a little bit better than the first one because now I could make students to speak. In the first class, it was difficult for me to make them speak.  I can say that I pushed them to do it, but this second class there were some of them that were helping me to develop the activities.

Well, talking about the class I could say that everything went well. In the first activity as a warm up, I made a charades activity in which they had to create two groups and each group had to choose a representative who was going to be sitting on the chair guessing the words that his classmates were mimic. It was nice because it helped them to wake up, and then; they did the next activity in a very nice way. I really liked this activity because students enjoyed it and made them to laugh which was a big challenge for me.

As the topic was quantifiers, the second activity that I did is that I gave them some examples about quantifiers let it them know that in some cases you can use more than one quantifier, but we have to be careful with some meanings.

Then, I came up with a fill in the blank activity in which they had to complete some sentences according to the meaning, it was nice to do it because they showed if it was well explained, and all of them did it in a very nice way.

The third activity developed was to create sentences. I asked them to pick up a paper from the box  that I had in my hands and according to the quantifier that they had gotten, they had to create a sentence. Then, I asked to each of them for the sentences, and all of them did the sentences in a very nice way.

The next activity was that I brought a chart to the classroom which contained several pictures of countable and uncountable nouns. I asked them to create three sentences. When they finished, I asked for the sentences made by the students.

After doing this, I came up with a whispering activity in which they had to create two sentences and whisper some sentences and write on the board those sentences given by the teacher.

Something that I really liked from this class is that I improved a little bit in the case of being more enthusiastic. The teacher told me last class that I needed to be more enthusiastic. I think I was at the first thirty minutes, but then; when I saw that they were kind of bored and did not want to talk, it depressed me, and my feelings were not the same.

This is one of the things that I did, and I hope to improve still more.

Intermediate II

Well, I am done with the first class, and I can say this was one of the  worst class that I have taught. First, because I felt like bored, and I wanted to be at home sleeping, but anyways I had to be there teaching. Another thing is that the students were bored as well, and it can be because I transmitted that feeling to them. This day was not so good for me.

So, talking about the class the first thing that I did is that I came up with a warm up activity. The topic was phrasal verbs. I put some meanings of phrasal verbs on the board, and students had to explode some balloons, and then, get the piece of paper that was inside the balloon, and put it in the correct meaning.

After doing this, I checked if they did it in the correct way. Then, I explained some sentences using those phrasal verbs. Then, I brought a fill in the blank activity for they to put the phrasal verbs in the correct sentences.

Then, I asked them to create two sentences and write them on their notebooks. Then, I asked them to come to the front and write the sentences on the board. Then, I checked and all of them were well done.

After doing this, I asked them to come to the front where I had some phrasal verbs, and when they were there, I asked them to pick up a phrasal verb and create a sentence using that phrasal verb.

So these were all the activities that I did with intermediate students.

Something that I did not like is that I was bored, and as I told you I felt the class very bored. I will try to do it better next time because I think that I need to improve.

Third class, cicle II, Teaching P.

Today, I taught my last class with advanced students. It was something that I had never taught or let’s say doing and all over the classes that I have taught, but that never came today. In this class I made a dictation practice now, I am going to tell you what I did.

The first thing that I did is a warm up activity which was to brainstorm the topic of the dictation practice that they were going to write in their notebooks. Well, it was nice because they started to say words related to that word. Then, I came out with the dictation practice.  This was the thing that I had to teach today. The first thing that I did is that I read the article first, and then, I asked them to write it in their notebooks. When they finished writing the article I gave them the page for they to check spelling.

Then, I asked for new words, and they told me the words that they had. I gave them meanings, and they got it in a very nice way.

After doing this, I gave them an activity in which they had to create questions following the answer that I gave them below. They had ten minutes to do it, but they did not finish, and I could not check what they did because time was over, and they had activity to do. So the teacher told me to let them doing it at home.

Something that I did not like in today`s class is that my tonged was twisted, and there was a moment in which I felt frustrated because I could not say a word. I hope it never happens again.

Something that I really liked in this class was the students’ participation and feelings. I must say that they were happier than never.