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.
Konnichiwa Mary San,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations about your class; it was pretty cool. I especially liked the warm-up and the dictation because you took advantage of it by teaching new words and by making it interactive at the moment of checking it.
And congratulations because you are done with the practices of this period. Well done!
My best wishes for the next one ;)
Nice class, Mary. You included some drills and a dictation and that´s good because they had the chance of testing their knowlege.You know, assessment cannot be ignored.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand,these topics require having patience because they are kind of confusing,but you had a smart move there when drawing a timeline. Really good!! You take advantage of all available resouces.
Hi Mary!!!!
ReplyDeleteTeaching grammar is part of the class so we have to do it even when we do not like it. I like the variety of activities you developed during the class and also the way you introduced the topic.The way you checked the dictation practice was nice because all the students were involve.
Good Job!!!!
Konichiwa hahahaha.
ReplyDeleteWell, as your last class and as all your classes, I must say: GOOD JOB! Grammar is and will always be a headache, but you are doing well. As teacher, you are very good and I am sure that you will always do well. The new vocabulary and making an interactive class was excellent. You have a big gamma of activities, and you know when and how to use them. Congratulations :).
Hello! Mary
ReplyDeleteI could notice that you take your time to developed your classes and it is good because as teachers what we want is that our students learn as much as possible. So, congratulations you did a good job and I really liked all the activities you included during the class. Keep on working hard..BLESSINGS!
I really liked the drills you included Mary!! it's a very recommended tool to teach.. I know we teachers expect the students to learn and with an organized class preparation it is impossible for them not to learn. Congratulations!!!
ReplyDeleteAs you mention my dear Mary, have them practicing by repetition is really important, because they will have the opportunity to self correct their own mistakes without any worry that somebody else will mock on them. Now our first challenge is done my friend, and we have to wait just 6 more classes to feel free!!! Congrats!!!!!
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