Intermediate II

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!

Intermediate II

I had my first class with Intermediate II today. I came early and started to prepare the things I was going to use for the class. When the teacher came I started the class by greeting the students and introducing myself. As warm up activity,  we listened to a song called "I never gonna leave this bed" by Maroon Five. This song introduced the topic "prhasal verbs", after that I explained the grammar part; to be sincere I felt a little bit nervious in that moment, because I was thinking that maybe the topic was too difficult, but thank God the Ss understood the topic very well. I focused on inseparable prhasal verbs and I taught just nine to avoid to give the Ss a lot of information. Then I gave them a sheet of paper with multiple choice exercises related with the prhasal verbs we had studied before; after that they worked in pairs and made sentences using some phrasal verbs. At the end they were going to work in groups and write a short story using the phrasal verbs, but unfortunately time was not enough. I took a lot of time in the grammar explanation; that is why, I could not finish my lesson, but I will be more careful next time.
I really like this group, they are kind and although they are shy, they try to participate. I like their attitud, they are eager to learn, and although I took a lot minutes when I explained the grammar, they were paying attention all the time.

English Access (last class)

I had my last class with English Access yesterday. I was nervous, because I had to explain the 

relative pronouns and I remember that it was a little hard for me when I studied it some time ago. I started with the warm up activity, I asked the students to stand up and make a circle, then they walked around me and I asked to make groups saying something like ¨people who are wearing the same color shoes make groups!!¨. This activity was to introduce the relative pronouns. After that, in the grammar part I explained to them the use of relative p. and I gave them some examples, as well. Then I gave them two writing practices to see if they had understood the topic, at the end in the wrap  up, we played “the hot potato” playing some music, the person who keep the potato had to describe him/herself using the relative pronoun; for example: I am a person who likes to help others.

A thing I love is the feedback, because you know your mistakes and learn from them, and also because the tutor gives you some pieces of advice. It is nice to know that they share with you part of their experience. I really liked the group I had; the teens are really kind and participative. Now I am eager to know what group will be the next one, and anxious to learn more.

English Access (second class)

Hello people! Today I had my second teaching practice. At the beginning I was very nervous

because I realized that not just my tutor was going to observe my class, but also an American man. Well, I started my class by asking them how they were and about the last day they were together, because I knew they had celebrated Valentine’s Day and they shared a little bit about that day. For the warm up activity I asked them to make two groups, then they named the groups, and made two lines, so I said a sentence to the last student, this one had to say it to the other, until the first one got it to write it on the board. The group that kept the original sentence was the winner and they get a candy. Then they had a writing activity, after that a speaking one. They practiced the daily routines using the simple present and adverbs of frequency in those activities. I could not finish the lesson plan because of the time, but I will share the activity for you to use it when you need it.  The students write the things they like to do on a piece of paper given by the teacher, then they put it in a bag; after that they have to pick up one and read it aloud for the others to guess who wrote it. The student who guesses gets a candy.

I liked the class, because I felt comfortable with the students, they like to participate and it is very nice!

I had some problems with CCQ, because I asked for a lot of information and also with some grammar structures, because I was nervous, but my tutor gave me some pieces of advice.

I would like to read yours suggestions, thank you very much!!

English Access (1st class)

I had my first class yesterday, and it was very nice, because I was not so nervous as I thought. 
I started the class by introducing myself and then I shared a beautiful relfection with them. I really liked their attitud, because they were so eager to participate!! In the warm - up activity I asked them to stand up, then we made a circle and passed a teddy bear to practice the simple present. They had fun and practiced the topic at the same time (the class I taught was just a review of the simple present) After that they had a written, a reading and a speaking activity. At the end I took 3 colored balls,and they passed them, when I said STOP they stopped passing it and 3 of them keep one ball, each color meant each form of the simple present, so the students who kept them had to create a sentence in the affirmative form, a question or a sentece in the negative form. 
I really liked this experience and it was nice to see that the students want to participate and learn as much as they can, because it motivates me to prepare the class even better.