Intermediate I (second period, first class)

I had my first class with this group the last Monday, and I was eager to start, because I had this group the last semester and I remember that it was a little bit hard, for they were afraid of making mistakes; that is why, they did not like to participate. In the observation I could see that now they are totally different and love to participate.

I started the class by greeting them and saying what I want in my classes; then I began the warm up activity "Follow the leader", and they had fun; then I made a review of "the verbs with two objects"; after that, they practiced the topic with some exercises I gave to them and they did it very well. I could see that they had understood the topic.

 For the next activity, I divided them into 2 groups for making a competition activity, so I gave an envelope with some sentence strips to each group for them to form the sentences putting the indirect and direct object correctly. They showed me that they knew what they were doing; both groups did it very well.

I finished the class by saying thank you for their participation, they are a nice group, believe me that they are totally different and that is great!

Thank you for your time and comments my friends!

Intermediate I

Hello guys!! This is my last class with this group and I liked it. I started by greeting them as every class, and then we played “The hot seat” , I divided them into two groups and each group had to choose someone who had to be sitting in front of them to guess a word that the teacher had written on the board. The others had to mimic for the person to guess it. I used words like ghost, scary story, dark, monsters, etc. After that, they had a listening in which two persons were talking about scary stories, and they liked it, they worked in pairs; one of them answered the first part and the other one the other part, it was nice because they had a listening quiz after my class. Then, they worked in groups of 5 and I gave them a sheet of paper with a scary story, they had to read it and create a new one using the target structure (past simple and past continuous) and although we did not have enough time, they did their best and created the scary stories practicing the target structure.

Thank God I finished the practices of the first period and I know that we all have learned and improved a lot. Thank you, for your comments and suggestions guys, blessings!!!

Intermediate I

I had my class on Monday 12^th and I started by greeting the students. Then,  I developed the warm up activity which consisted on a game known by them,  I called it “the hanged man” and the words I used was the verbs, but in the past tense, they had fun, but I realized that they do not know the past of some verbs. The topic was “Simple past and Past continuous”; after the warm up, I explained the grammar point and I felt very nice, because I was not nervous and the students understood the topic. The next activity was the controlled one and I gave them a sheet of paper that contained 3 exercises, in which they practiced the simple past, the past continuous and in the third one they practiced the use of both and thank God they did it very well. I could not continue because of the time, but I felt fine because I know they understood the topic.

I felt more comfortable in this class, because I knew the students a little bit and it helped me to prepare the class. I hope to read your comments; it will be a pleasure for me, believe me that your pieces of advice are important and I learn a lot from them. Thank you a lot, blessings!

Intermediate I (First class)

Hello there!! I hope you are fine.

I had the first class of this semester on Monday 29th, and it was a hard day for me, because  my great grand mother had problems with her health and I could not leave home early, so I came really late to the University, but I talked to the teacher and thank God she understood the situation and gave me the second hour.

I started the class by greeting the students and introducing myself, then  I developed a warm up activity called “truth or lie” in which they write 3 sentences (2 of them are true and the other one false) and at the end , they guess what the lie is; they had fun and and get relaxed, because I started my class after a quiz.  After that, I explained the grammar structure (so and such) I gave them  some examples describing some of them and they understood the topic; then they solved a multiple choice activity and I noticed that they did not make many mistakes, and that made me feel great. I could not develop the rest of the lesson plan, because as I told you before, I had som problems at home and I had to teach in the second hour, also they had a quiz, so I taught just 30 minutes. Even though I did not have enough time, I can say that I did my best, because I was worried about my grandma, but I left my problems when I began the class and that made me feel that I have improved a lot.

Thank you for reading and leave you comments, I wish you the best and I know that every of us is learning new things, blessings my friends!!

Basic level (Last class)

Today ( May, 20^th) I had my last class with this group. I started the class with a warm up in which the teacher starts by saying; for example, “I went to the market and I bought some fish”, then, the students have to continue this by saying something similar, but using another word related with food, this game was for them to practice the vocabulary about food and introduce the topic “countable and uncountable nouns”. Then, I explained the topic, besides explaining the countable and uncountable nouns, I explained the use of “some and any”, unfortunately I had to improvise, because I had some problems with technology. After that, I gave the students a sheet of paper that contained a list of vocabulary about food and they had to write if they were countable or uncountable, they had some problems with some words, but they did it very well, because as the teacher told me, they already knew about the topic. In the next activity they imagined that they were going to go to a picnic the next day, so they needed to prepare a shopping list for going to the market, I gave them some minutes for them to write the list, then 3 volunteers shared what they had written and believe me that they did a great job. The last activity was a race board, I asked them to make two groups (A and B) and then they made two lines in front of the whiteboard, group A had to write uncountable nouns and group B the countable ones, they started to write and had fun, after some minutes I said “stop!” and checked what they had wrote, I felt glad, because the only mistake that one of the group had was a repetition of a word.

I am happy for having finished this experience, It was very nice for me to learn in this way; I learned from every tutor I had, and also from my co worker.  I had good and bad moments and every time was a lesson for me. I hope you have enjoyed these practices my friends. Thank you for your comments!! May God bless you all!!!

Basic level

On Wednesday 8th, I had my second class with this group; I taught that day, because of mother's day. I started the class with a game called "people to people" as warm up, in which you have to say different parts of the body like knee to knee and the students have to look for another person and put together the parts of the body the teacher says, and when the teacher says "people to people" all the class get together. Then, they performed two written activities for them to practice the negative and interrogative form of the past tense; I saw again that they continue having problems with this tense, and tried to explain one more time. After that, we had an activity called "yesterday" in which one of them had to past in front of the classmates and tell a little bit about what he/she did yesterday, then the others had to make some questions to that person in order to get more information. They practiced the interrogative form with this activity and I could correct them if I heard any mistake. 

At the end, I performed an activity named "balloons", in which they had to pass a teddy bear while some music was playing, when the music stopped the person who kept the teddy bear had to stand up and burst one of the balloon that were pasted on the wall, inside the balloon there was a paper with a sentence is the past tense, they had to change it and write on the board the negative or interrogative form of those sentences. 

Thank God they did it well, and there was just a mistake.

I felt that the first class was better than this one, maybe because of the activities, but what matters is that they practiced more the topic to be more prepared for the exam. I will do it better next time.

Thank you for your comments and suggestions people!! Blessings!! :)

Basic level

I had the class with this level today and I enjoyed it a lot. This group is very particular because there is just one boy, another thing is that the most of them have failed the subject 3 times, so probably they will not be able to continue with the major, because according to the teacher, they will fail one more time; so when I was preparing the lesson, I thought to do something meaningful for them.

I started by dividing the class in two groups, then I told them some verbs in present tense, and they had to run and write the verb in the past tense on the board, the group that wrote the verb correctly got a point, they had fun and I could diagnose how much they know about the topic. After that, I asked them to work in pairs and I gave them a crossword in which they had to write the verb in past, they did it very well, they just made a mistake in one verb. For the next activity, I gave them a sheet of paper with the lyrics of a song that had some mistakes in the verbs, so they had to underline the mistakes and correct them. After that, they played the tic tac toe and I noticed some mistakes there; they had to pick a piece of paper with a verb in present, then they had to write a sentence using that verb in past tense, and they had problems doing this, but was harder for them to write a question; so I tried to explain a little bit and then each group wrote a question and believe me that they did it very well, they did not forget the auxiliary this time.

I like this group, because I think it is a challenge and I love that, because you get experience. You do not know what future brings to your life, so we have to take advantage of each experience we have.