Third class

Hello everyone! What a joy of being here sharing with you my third and last class of this period. I must say it has been challenging, but satisfactory due to the good results I got, and the learning and experience I continue getting. Well, first of all I tell you that the class started with few students, the majority didn't go to class on that day, so it was a little bit easier. I started the class with a warm up reviewing the previous topic, I played a song including new vocabulary for them to learn and the use of the previous topic. Students had to underline in the lyrics of the song I provided every time the target structure appeared, and write the new words for them. After that, I followed the class explaining some information about the use of "will" in the interrogative form, so that they can make questions using "will". Then, students had to complete the first written exercise I provided in which they had to create questions using will. After that, we moved to the second written exercise in which they had to transform or change the sentences from positive or negative to interrogative form. In the end, the class finished with the students standing up and asking their classmates two questions using will, they had to answer one in positive and the other one in negative form. The, I thanked students for their attention and all ended very well. This was a very nice experience in order to improve my teaching skills.

Second Class

Hello everyone! It's very to come back and share my second class this period. I start telling you that I started the class with a warm up called "Two truths one lie", students had to relate the things with different experiences in hotels or trips they have previously done. Then, all students made a circle in order to create a story in a hotel environment, each student had to contribute and add a part to the story. The grammar point of this class was the use of "had better". I explained this grammar point using examples of the books and my own. After that, I told the students to go to page twenty eight of their books in order to develop a controlled practice about completing some sentences with "had better". After finishing that exercise, I told students to create three different sentences using the grammar point of the class. The class was supposed to finish with a role play in which students had to pretend that they were in a hotel with their friends saying things they had better do to enjoy their time there, but time was not enough so the class finished with the three sentences they created. One important thing of this second class was that feedback was better due to I got more prepared for the class, and that influenced my grade.

First Class

It is a great pleasure for me to be sharing with all of you my new experiences in this teaching area. This time I was assigned to teach to Intermediate level. Ad it is common, I was a little bit nervous about the kind of students I was going to have and their behavior in the classroom, but some of them were in Basic in the previous semester, so I knew some of them. I started the class asking about their favorite kind of movies asking if they would rather watch horror movies or romantic movies. Then I played a song related with the previous topic that was "would rather be", students listened the song three times, the first one just to get familiar with the vocabulary, the second one to write some lyrics of the song that were missing and the last one just to check, I arote some new words on the board after the song so that they get new vocabulary. After that, I presented the topic describing two different movies using in the whole description the words "for" and "since" meaning time. What followed next was the grammar explanation about the previous words, their use, and some important things about them, I gave some examples with words and then after 10 minutes, I passes a little written exercise of then sentences in which they had to write "for" or "since". I'm glad to say that most of the students answered correctly. After all that and almost at the end, I told the students to get in pairs and talk about some movies, cartoons or series they watch since they were children, and some others thay they can watch for long periods of time without getting bored. After the class finished and when feedback was given to me, I realized that I made some mistakes that I had made in the previous classes, but the one it was more remarkable was that I took too much time for one activity and that made me not completed the whole plan I prepared; this made me feel a little bad because it is supposed that I don't have to make the same mistakes. I will try to make my best in the following classes to improve, but at the end the class was good and students understood the topic and learned how to use "for" and "since" meaning time.