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!!!