My last experience

Hello guys!! I want to share with you my last class of this nice experience.

I started my class by greeting the students and having a chat with them;  then I asked them if they liked old music and they said yes!!! So I gave them a page with thy lyrics of “If you leave me now “’ by Chicago, they had to fill in the blanks with what they listened to, then they sang the song. They enjoyed it a lot because they liked it. After that, I explained the grammar about the first conditional, and they understood fast because I used common examples for them to get the information easier, then they completed some fill in the blanks and created some sentences using the target structure.

 As next activity I asked them to make two groups (A and B) to make a competition, so I pasted a clause in the board and one of the team run and wrote the other clause, in this activity they had to use their imagination, and believe me that they did a great job. Unfortunately I could not perform the last activity in which 3 of them were going to pretend to be candidates for being president, so they were going to use the first conditional making promises and the others were going to choose who was going to be the winner.

At the end I said thank you for their participation, because they were very nice.

I really enjoyed this experience, I learned a lot from my teacher, tutors, students, co worker and all of you. Thank you for every comment and pieces of advice you gave me.  Now we are ready for the next step.

May God bless you all!!!

Second class

Hello guys!! I hope you are happy because we are almost done with this nice experience!

Let me tell you that I had my second class the last Monday; as always I started by greeting them and then I asked them to stand up to play "pass the ball" as warm up, they person who kept the ball had to say something like "I like doing this... but i don not like... or I enjoy, I can,I would like, etc" this to practice gerunds and infinitives. This clas was a review of the same topic "verb patterns" ; after the warmp up they worked in pairs to complete a reading in which they have to write in infinitive o gerund the verb  they had in parenthesis, everything was nice, the only thing was that I did not give them enough time, so some of them did not finish the work and my tutor told me that I should have given more time, because the reading was a little bit long; then I asked them to form two teams and I gave them some situations, in which they had to help people by giving pieces of advice, I told them the verbs they should use; I did this to know if they could use the target structure and I felt happy beacause they did it very well!!!

To finish the class we used a dice, I asked 3 volunteers and they throw it, in two of the faces the word "candy" , the other two "say a sentences using to or ing" and the other one" magic bag" so they had to take a paper from it and had to answer the question using the target structure.

I enjoy this class as well and now I am waiting for my last one!! Thank you very much, have a good day!!

My first class

I had my class with intermediate I the last Thursday. The topic was "Verb patterns" I found it a little hard because there are a lot of rules and verbs for them to learn.

I started my class with a warm up called "the ping pong words" all of you already know it; it did not work as it did with us, anyways they had fun at the end.

After that, I introduced the topic by asking them about gerunds and infinitives to know how much they knew about the topic, then I explained them 4 patterns; when they should use infinitives, gerunds, modals and both (infinitives and gerunds); then I asked them to make pairs to work in a written activity and when they finished I checked their work with the whole group.

For the last activity I asked for 3 volunteers and 3 of them run; we played "about me" in which you as teacher ask them about what they like or dislike, enjoy etc, they have to use the patterns in this game; so I did some questions like "what do you enjoy doing in your free time? So they started to use the target language and it was great!!

This is a nice group, they like to participate because they are eager to learn, and if they do not understand something they ask.

Thank you for your comments and pieces of advice guys!!!