Monday,
August 12th, 13
On that day I had my last class with the intermediate group
of students, this time I was introducing a new structure, “Simple Past and Past
Progressive” I am so lucky as I always have to teach grammar, anyways. I
started my class by developing a warm up activity, “the telephone is broken”
you know how this works, so I included sentences and questions from the
previous topics, I think it was meaningful for them because they enjoyed that
activity. As presentation I wrote a conversation on the board and left some
spaces, so students had to fill in with some words I wrote on one side of the
board. After they completed the conversation, they repeated with me and then they
practice in pairs. Then I asked boys to repeat and then only girls, the teacher
always tells me that it is really important to have them repeat. Later, I
explained and gave some characteristics about the tenses so that they know when
and how to use them. I know this topic is kind of confusing so I made some time
lines for students to be clearer and understand better about the structures.
After that; I provided some examples and asked students to help me come up with
some others.
I just gave a practice, in which students had to
decide whether to use past simple or past progressive, they did it and we
checked the answers together. What I did next was to have a dictation practice as they are having their
evaluations soon. So I dictated to them and later I asked each of them to come
to the front and write a piece of the paragraph until all of them participated.
In that way we checked the mistakes and I explained some new words to students.
In the end I just said bye and thank them.
