Yesterday, I had my second class with this group. I started my class by
greeting the students, and then we started with the warm up activity. To
introduce the topic, I brought some pictures in which there was a person doing
or making something, the topic was "Make and Do", so I asked the
students to guess what the person in the picture was doing or making; for
example, in an image, there was a person talking by phone and they said that
the boy was making a telephone call. I showed them 10 pictures in that way and I
realized that they already knew something about the topic. I did that activity
to diagnose their knowledge.
After that, I explained the topic, 3 rules for make and 3 rules for do, I
included also some exceptions and after their questions, I gave them a sheet of
paper with some fill in the blanks exercises, in these exercises they had to be
careful with the tenses, and was in this moment when the time started to run
very fast! They had problems not with make
and do, but with the tenses,
they started to make mistakes like “Don´t forget to does your homework” and others, I spent a lot of time trying to
correct them, because it was a hard work in every single sentence, and there
were 10, so I could not finish my lesson one more time. Anyways, it is a nice
experience and I like to learn in every practice I have.
I was going to use a dice in the next activity, 2 faces with make, 2 faces with do, and 2 faces with
the word candy. In this game
students are passing the dice while some music is playing, when the teacher
stops the music, the person who keeps the dice, goes to the front and throws it,
if he/ she gets make, the student
has to tell a sentence using it, the same with do, and if the pupil gets the word candy, you know what happens.
I shared the activities I cannot develop, because of the time, for you
to use them if you like them.
I am eager to read your suggestions and comments, thank you a lot!
