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!!!