My 2nd class!

I taught my second class on Monday July 29th, so I arrived very early at the university to arrange everything in the classroom. The teacher told they were to change classroom so next time we would be in a different room.  But she got confused and got kind of late to the classroom all the students were already there and I needed the cd player to develop the warm up. Finally the teacher came but she had forgotten the cd player. Anyways, I used Maggie´s  pc, the volume was no so loud but I did it. I started my class a little bit late because of the above reasons. I was desperate but I needed to continue.

This time I had to teach “ Countable and Uncountable nouns”  so to start I made two groups and asked students to make a line in front of the board, they had to write as many words as they could think of, of course one group wrote about count and the other about no count nouns. At the end, I had them repeat all the words they had written on the board. After that, I gave a quick explanation about the topic because they had already studied that on the previous term. So, I made more emphasis on the nouns that can be both countable and uncountable. At first they were confused but they understood the difference as I gave them examples.

To practice, they worked in the book, and then they discussed in pairs about their favorite kind of sandwich, later they had to report about their partner´s likes. Eventually, I asked them to think of what´s wrong in their town and what they will do to improve it. I told them they could use sentence stems like these: “There isn’t enough…” and “There are too many…” they interacted with their classmates and came up with pretty nice ideas.

Going ahead!!

Hello everyone; I know you all are ready to start teaching! Remember just one more cycle and we are over if God willing, so let’s put all our effort and do the best we can on this!!

I started my teaching practice on Monday, July 22^nd, I am working with an intermediate level this time; they are twenty one students and I could see everybody is eager to learn the language.

I started a new unit; it is about adjectives. And to introduced the topic I started teaching this two words: “so and such”. But before introducing the new structure I developed a warm up activity. What I did this time was to focus on what students had been studying before. As they had practiced “the present perfect” I took advantage of that and asked them to create a piece of a song using participles, for example, have you ever been to Paris? And so on. They had to choose the rhythm for the song and then come to the front and sing it as a group. I noticed students had a good time when singing and listening to each other, at the end I can say it was a meaningful activity as they were refreshing their previous knowledge and enjoyed a lot. Next, and to activate students’ scheme I asked them to describe the most beautiful place they had visited, so that they could use adjectives. They participated a lot, and then I move to the grammar phase, I explained to students the form, meaning and use of “so” and “such”. They did not have any problem so then I gave them some practice, they had to choose whether to use so or such some of them had some troubles while solving that, but eventually they got it. And as a final task, they were to create sentences using the new structures. I felt confident when teaching as I had worked with some of the students before. I just had some inconvenient and it was regarding with my writing on the board. I don’t do it so bad but this time I was going almost from corner to corner!! Believe me guys it was a real shame. At the end the teacher gave a tip to me, so I would appreciate if you share some more with me!!

Precedently thanks;)