My second class

Well, this time I started the class with an activity related to the topic that we were going to study (Present Continuous). I had to explain the grammar part, but it was not too difficult because they knew a little about that topic.

I faced a problem because during a TPR activity some students were not doing what they had to do, and as I was working with another group, I didn’t realize that two boys were playing in the classroom.  The thing is that I thought that all students were paying attention to me, but later I understood that I had to be more careful with my students.

When working with big groups, we have to develop many abilities, so that we can control all the students at the same time. 

The rest of the class was better than what I had planned and that made me feel great.

I am waiting for my third class……….

Thanks Lord!

                                  My first class in Intermediate English I

I started my class as I always do, by praying. Every student was paying attention to what I was saying. They looked serious and strange, but when I started to talk to them, they started to feel better.I gave each student a piece of paper, so that they could write their names and paste them on their chest. It was helpful for me because I could talk to the students by saying their names. 

The group is very nice. They like to work and participate, and their attitude toward the language is amazing because all of them expressed how much they liked English. We developed very controlled, semi controlled and free practice, and in the free practice students were very excited speaking that I didn`t want to stop the activity; that is why I took seven minutes more. At the end, I checked the time with the teacher, and realized that I have control the time better because I have just 50 minutes. 

Something that made me feel happy is an activity that I invented. When I went to observe the class with their teacher, I realized that a lot of students were speaking in Spanish. Due to that fact, I printed and laminated some bills, and I gave each student one bill. I told them that if someone said a word in Spanish, the person who heard the word had to take the bill of the person who spoke in Spanish. At the end, the person who had more bills was going to win a beautiful book.

This was the first time I developed that activity, but it worked beautifully, and even after my class, they were saying “You are going to pay if you speak in Spanish.” The teacher congratulated me.

At the end of the class, I felt very motivated to continue growing as a teacher.

Thanks God!