Last one of the P!

I taught my last class of this period on September 27^th.

This time I had to begin a new unit and to introduce a new structure. I was to teach “used to vs. would” for past habits. As usual I develop a warm up activity, and I think I chose a wrong one because at that time students like to move because the class is at 7: 00 a.m. anyways, I brought this activity called “fact or fiction” in which students came to the front and told a story about their own or somebody else’s, and the rest had to guess if what they listed to was real or not. I asked for volunteers but nobody wanted so I used the attendance list in that way they had to pass. At the end, they participated but the warm up was not catching for them. 
To move on, I wrote the word of the day on the board and listened to some of the examples students wrote. As a presentation, they had to read an article about “Rituals”  I used a pdp model, but I had some problems regarding with the time; the reading was kind of long and that took too much time for students so I  asked them to stop reading though some of them hadn´t finished reading it. And because of that I was not able to develop the activity I had prepared as a post. 
For the grammar part I just had like 8 minutes left, so I gave a quick explanation and some examples and my class was over the teacher told me I had to be careful with the time because I needed to go deeper in the explanation but the presentation took too much time. Besides, the teacher told me I looked very nervous that day, I also had some spelling problems I couldn’t write some words, so students told me, teacher that word is not written like that and I couldn’t realize where the mistake was until a student came and helped me write it. I do not what happened to me this time. Anyways I am done with the 2^nd period.

The last period is coming guys… let´s go for it!!

Second Adclass!

I taught my second class on Friday 20th, with this group I have just done practice. I have not taught the grammar part. They are studying “Phrasal verbs”  so as  a warm up;  I did a matching activity some students got some sentences containing phrasal verbs and others got the meaning of those PV. They had to come to the front and paste them on the board so that those who had the meaning could match them. Later, we checked them and everybody participated. I think that was meaningful for them. Secondly, I taught a new expression to students and asked them to write an example for the new one and the one I previously shared with them. I checked that orally.

I did a quick review of the previous class that had been about “separable and inseparable PV” students provided me with some examples. And then I asked them to work in their book they had to rewrite some sentences using PV. They did that without any problem. So next, I gave them a filling in the blank activity they were to choose the correct verb and preposition to complete the statements with the appropriate PV. To finish with my class I divided the class into two groups and had a “phrasal race” I wrote a  regular verb in the board and in their groups they had to write as many sentences as they could using that verb with a correct preposition. For example, Verb= take, PV= take back. Ex: I had to take back the shirt. It was the wrong size. I did that many times and my class was over. Sometimes I forget to CCQ so the teacher told me that it is really important to that all the time because he could notice some students did not get my directions in the warm up activity. 

Adv, 2nd P!!

On Friday 13^th I taught my first class. We are working with an advanced group this time.

So, to start my class I introduced myself and asked students the way they felt as they were going to have impromptu speeches. I did a warm up activity in order to review the previous classes as they had been studying “Conditionals” I brought the famous song if I were a boy, I played it just once and asked students to pay attention to the conditionals they could find in the lyrics. Then, I wrote these two questions on the board: What would you do if you were a boy/ girl? And if you were an animal, what animal would you be? Why? I gave them one minute to discus with a partner and then we shared. 
To move on, I brought a new word to students and I also asked them to come up with a sentence using the new word. Next I just asked students about the usage of future progressive and future perfect as I was to give only practice about the new topic (Future progressive and perfect) I. brought a chart in which I had written some sentences and questions regarding with future progressive and future perfect so students had to choose either to use progressive or perfect, I asked for volunteers to come to the front and fill in the blanks. And then we analyzed the answers as a class. After that, I asked them to work in their books, and then we checked the answers.
 As a final task, students had to write five questions using future perfect, for example, what will you have done by 2014? After writing those questions they had to mingle and ask those questions to their classmates. They reported the answers and my class was over. I did not face any bad situation this time thank God. So it wasn’t a perfect class but everything went smoothly.