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.