I had my last class with this group the
last Tuesday, and let me tell you that it was a little hard for me to get their
attention, because it was the first day of class, and I noticed that they were
shy, because they did not want to participate and they told me they were tired.
The topic was the future tense (going to,
will and present continuous) and it was a review, so I did not have to explain
it.
As warm up I
performed a ring onion activity and I asked them to stand up and make two
circles, the students who were in the inner circle were called students B and
the other ones students A. They walked while some music was playing and when
the music stopped they had to stop as well, and discuss some questions regarded
to the topic. They had fun with this activity and the teacher told me that he
liked it, but it would have been better if they would have created the
questions. Then, we discussed some questions about the future, but they did not
use the future tense in the most of the answers, so I had to tell them that they
had to pay attention to the structure of the question. After that, I asked them
to make groups of 4 and then I gave them a board game, some beans and a pair of
dices, and they enjoyed the game. At the end, they passed a ball while some
music was playing and when the music stopped the student who kept the ball had
to stand up and choose a paper from the magic bag, the papers contained
questions that students had to answer using the future tense. At the end, I
thanked them for being so kind and participative.
I really
enjoyed the practice with this group, because it was different; they are
participative, but not too much! You have to be a very enthusiastic teacher for
them to participate; I know I have to learn a lot of things, but this
experience was very nice! It was like a challenge, they have some problems with
some topics they have studied before, and this one was not the exception, they
asked a lot of things and you have to be ready to answer! So I learned to read
a lot before teaching with this group and that is great!!
Thank you for your time, thank you for
reading my entry and for your comments! May God bless you all J
