Third period! First entry April 28th, 2011!

Hi people here I am again!... In this period I came back to teach in the basic level as I did in the first one. Overall, I now can say that this is a nice group of students, and my tutor teacher is so enthusiastic.

This time I got the chance of teaching the grammar part about the use of “There is” and “There are”. Well, I started my class using an activity with the purpose of brainstorming a little bit about the previous topic and in that way introduce the new one.

Overall, the activity was nice because students had a great time and my tutor liked it a lot, but as nothing is perfect, I got some problems because students did not get my directions at the first time and that made the activity takes too much time. The activity consisted on groping the students and makes them to create a chart, with the target structure, for having little presentations about it. At the end I got great result from my students, but as I mentioned previously it was so long, so my tutor teacher advised me to be careful with that kind of situations next time.

After that I started explaining about the target structure by giving some examples and trying to involve the students in the whole process.  I could notice that they understood very well because after some minutes I tested them with some exercises and their performance was excellent.

By this time my class was almost over, but I performed one more activity, and I think this was the most successful one because all my students were so eager so participate. This was a very simple activity, but I tried to make them feel as they were competing and I guess it helped a lot.

Well, I guess this is everything I remember about the class hehe… see you here next week ok byeee.

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Last entry of the second period!!! Advanced group... April 6th, 2011.

Hello people I´m sorry that I could not write soon, but I have been a little bit busy with some stuff. First than all I want to appreciate all the people who helped me out with the papers and stuff for my scholarship. Let me tell you that I´m very happy because I finally finished the process and now I´m just waiting for an answer from de Chinese embassy, but I have a good feeling about it. 

I want to appreciate all my teachers for being so understandable and patience during all this process. Let me tell you that I did not teach the week I was suppose to because I did not have time, so that is why you did not see any entry on my blog the previous week, but here I am again.

I finally taught my last class in the advanced group. I felt sad because these guys are very nice and I really enjoyed sharing with them some moments of this period. The class was about vocabulary related with law, and I tried to make it different so I provided some activities that helped me to reach my goal. In the first activity I made them run and have a little bit fun. In the second one, they had to think and share their ideas because I provided some questions in order to make a debate about what is fair and unfair talking about law. It was a nice activity because I could feel that they were eager to participate and share ideas, opinions and thoughts.

Late on, I explained some grammar points of the topic “Paraphrasing” and fortunately students got the point so fast that they had no problems in developing the next activity which consisted on paraphrase a short paragraph. After they finished, they shared their ideas with the rest of the people and was then when my class was over.

I felt so satisfied for being able to accomplish my challenge of teaching the advanced group, and at the end I enjoyed it because I knew that I gave my best in every moment. The teacher and the students were so kind that the only thing I can say to them is: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, IT WAS A PLEASURE TO WORK WITH YOU!!!

Well people this is all for this entry… See you after vacations. Love you guys and wish you happy vacations…

Enjoy them very much...

 see ya!!!