Second class of the last period! May 5th, 2011

Hello people this is my second entry for the last period of the teaching practicum I. first than all I want to apologize with you because I could not deliver my report on time, but I have been facing some difficult situations in my personal life. I hope you understand and as I mentioned previously I AM SO SORRY!!!!

Well let me tell you that this time I had a great time with my students because I felt more comfortable with the group. Even my tutor teacher congratulated me by the time she gave me the feedback she said that I was teaching better. I felt so proud of myself because at the beginning I thought it would be a real challenge for me teaching this group.

I started my class with a warm-up that helped students remember the previous vocabulary related with food. I asked them to make to lines in front of the board and to choose a representative per each group. I gave a marker to each representative, and then I said a food category and each group had to write as many types of food as possible; for example: I said: Greasy food and students had to write words related with that type of food, as: hamburger, pizza, french-fries, etc. it was a nice activity because it took little time and students enjoyed it a lot because they had the opportunity of walking, running, writing, etc.

After that was the time for me to teach them GRAMMAR!!! For this part I provided some charts with some clues that they order according to the topic. They did it very well because they got all the answers easily, and then I spent some minutes to explain some rules and to make them repeat everything with the purpose that they remember easily.  In the middle of the explanation I also brought some flashcards and I was asking them to apply the rules, I just had taught, using these flashcards. It was awesome because in that way I could notice that they were learning very well the target structures.

When I finish this part my time was almost up, but I still had some minutes to give them an extra practice. Students behave nicely because they were paying attention and at the end I could noticed that they learned.

I guess this is it people. Hope you enjoy reading this because next time I will have a video to show it to you hehehe well see you next time!!