My last class

Well, this was my last class of the year. I was really excited because I was about to finish my Teaching Practicum II, but at the same time, I felt sad because every class means an opportunity to learn.

I started the class with “the freeze game.” I used it with the purpose of having fun and reviewing the topic. The students had been studying the use of “have to, should, could and must,” so I tried to review a little bit because there were some doubts about the grammar. After that review, we were about to practice. The first activity was a fill in the blanks. Then, the students created their own English school with their own rules. The activity was amazing because some of them said things like these ones: “In our school, students have to have boyfriend or girlfriend,” “In our school, students mustn’t have notebooks,” etc. The activity was suitable to practice the grammar into discussion.

The last activity was “find the partner.” In that activity, the students had to find the pictures that were the same and create sentences with them. It was  like a little competence that helped the students to practice the studied topics and to work as a group.

This experience has been fruitful for me because there are things that can be learnt just through practice. Thanks Lord!

My third class

My third class started with a TPR activity in which the students had to work in groups to write a word per each letter of “Childhood.” The activity was challenging because they were thinking about words that were related, and it was kind of difficult. After that, we started talking about the things that kids do in order to get what they want. All the students shared their techniques to manipulate their parents. For example some of them used to throw a tantrum when they wanted a toy (That part was meaningful for me. I learned a lot).

I introduced the grammar part “Have to” and “should” by asking some questions about their childhood. After explaining the grammar, I gave the students some flashcards about famous places, and they had to describe the place by using “have to” and “should,” and the rest of students had to guess the name of the place. The activity worked well because all the students practiced the grammar in discoursed, and they could learn new vocabulary as well.

My favorite part was the last one. I called it “penalties.” I gave each student a piece of paper to write a penalty for one of their classmates. They could assign whatever thing, but they didn’t have to write the name of the transmitter just the name of the receiver. All the students were laughing at the moment of writing the penalties because they said that their classmates were going to pay for everything. When I received the papers, I controlled who had given me each paper, so that I could know who had written each penalty. I started reading the penalties, but I explained that the person who had written each penalty, had to perform it. They were laughing and telling me not to do so, but I did it. Some students had to dance like Michael Jackson and others do pushups.

The activity was wonderful because they learned how to use “have to,” and also that they don’t have to desire others do what they wouldn’t like to do.  

Thanks Lord!