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.
HELLO MY FRIEND.SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE YOU HAD.I KNOW YOU´RE STRONG -MINDED AND YOU DIID IT.THESE THINGS HAPPEN SOMETIMES.
ReplyDeleteTHE TOPIC YOU TAUGHT IS NOT THAT EASY BUT THE WARM UP HELPED. ALSO DISCUSSING ABOUT THEIR FAVORITE SANDWICH WAS A GREAT IDEA SINCE THEY LIKE EVERYDAY TOPICS.THAT WAS INTERESTING AND MEANINGFUL FOR THEM.
My dear Mary, I just can say ouchhhhhh.....I know what is dealing with those problems :( you feel really uncomfortable and nervous, because we want that everything goes in the best way possible....but my dear, as I mentioned in some other bloggs....this is just part of our preparation for real life....keep walking Mary, I know you, and I know you will overcome any problem you face in the classroom...Congratulations my dear!!!!!
ReplyDeletehello Mary!! I see you did a great job! The first activity was a nice idea. It's nice that you clarified the ones which are both, and more important the fact that you gave them examples so that they could get the idea. I think that the more real-life facts and examples we use, the better the students gets the knowledge. The other activity was nice. It was a thought-provoking excersice. In that way, you made them participate, so that you from time to time became just a facilitator. you did it nicely Mary!! keep doing your best!!
ReplyDeleteOh Mary! Despite your problem, you did well. Managing unexpected situations that come up in any time is one of the skills to be developed hehe. Anyways, I like your examples using realia which is very important to reinforce any topic or content. Your students participated and learned, so you can say you did a good job. Keep doing well, miss! Cheers.
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