My second class (Intermediate English I)

I started my second class by greeting and telling the students that we were going to continue playing `the highest price.´

I also played the `hot potato` to review the last studied topic, and I could reinforce the topic because we were going to continue practicing on that. 

That time, I developed the free practice, and I mainly did it by using visual aids. The first activity was a `chained nonsensical story, ` and the results were amazing because students came up with spectacular stories. It was an oral activity, and it helped us to have some fun. 

After that, I had the students work in groups of 4, and I gave them a poster with different cartoons. The students had to create subject and object questions to ask them to their classmates. The activity helped the students to practice not only the questions but also the answers. 

At the end, I had a little problem because I promised to reward the winner of the highest price. I just had one gift, but there were 3 winners. I never thought about that, so I couldn`t give them the gift. I learned that I have to be prepared for unexpected situations, but at the same time, I felt happy because the students were more motivated to speak in English during the class. I congratulated the students because of their effort. 

Thanks Lord!

My first class (Intermediate English I)

Two Days before my first class, I went to observe the class to see how the students were. That observation let me know that they liked to speak in Spanish a lot. I noticed that most of them spoke in Spanish even when the teacher told them not to do so. In order to avoid that, I prepared an action plan. I played the activity `the highest price.` The results were amazing because nobody wanted to speak in Spanish during the class. The most incredible was that the student, who used to speak a lot in Spanish during the classes, was the winner. My tutor told me that the activity was great, and that he wanted to use it, too.

During the class, the students worked well on the activities related to ´subject and object questions.´ I developed the grammar explanation and the very and semi controlled activities.

At the end, I developed a TPR activity in which the students had to form two rows to work one by one. I told the students that I was going to read a question, and they had to write on the board if it was a subject or an object question. The group that got more points was the winner.

Thanks God everything was ok, and the teacher gave me good comments.

My last class (Access program)

Well, I had to teach my last class at the Access program. I started the class with an activity called “mimics.” I could see that the students enjoyed it because they were laughing a lot. We were about to practice the use of “be going to,” so the activity was about some actions that students were going to use in next activities. 

The presentation was in groups. In that activity, students had to form the sentences that I was dictating. They really got excited, and they wanted to continue, but I had to stop because of the time. 

During the practice, students worked with some sentences that I gave them, and I could see that they understood the topic because they did well. Almost at the end of the practice, I developed an activity in which students had to sit back to back to describe a picture. The end of the activity was great, but I had to face a problem, and it is that I didn’t consider that the space was not suitable for the number of students. When I saw that it was not enough to sit them in the same column, I had to change the methodology and put some students in one side and others in another one. It was more difficult for me because I had to move, and there was no space.

 

At the end, I talked to the students to encourage them to take advantage of the program because that is an amazing opportunity.  Most of them told me beautiful things such as “we are going to miss you teacher,” “please, come and visit us, “and I felt very happy. I think I will miss that group mmmmmmm.

Thanks Lord!