And the journey continues classmates… once again the challenge of teaching starts over again... First Class of the 2nd Teaching Practice!

  In this opportunity I was assigned to teach the intermediate level at 09:00 a.m., and this is what happened in my fist class of the period…

Fortunately, I got on time to the classroom; imagine that I had to teach in the new building that is almost on the soccer field hahaha, so it was kind of difficult to get there. I had time to prepare everything for the class and introduce myself to the new group of students.

When I was about to start, I received an unexpected guest into my classroom, he was my tutor teacher who wanted to observe my class. At the beginning I felt a little bit nervous because I have never had him into my classroom before, but it was not a thing I could not control.

I started my class with a warm-up activity related with family members. The activity consisted in grouping the students into two teams and making them unscramble all the names I wrote on the board.  It took just 5 or 8 minutes, but it did not go in the way I wanted because some students were not in the mood for performing it. Later on, I realized that during this activity I blocked the view for one of the teams, so it is something I need to improve for next time I use it.

After that I asked my students to create a table in which they had to classify their family members into “Female and Male”; they also had to include real information about their families. For example: Male: uncle = Pedro. I used this activity in particular to introduce the new topic which was “The meaning of names”, so after that have finished, I started asking some questions like: Do you like your name? Do you know if your name has a special meaning?. The activity was nice because in the classroom I have two students with unusual names which helped even more during the discussion about the topic.

Later, I provided a listening activity which was a conversation between two people talking about their names and they way some people like to call them instead of using their real names. This activity was a “pre” action for the reading activity I provided later.

When I gave the reading to the students, I asked them to read it and pay special attention to new vocabulary. After they finished, I explained the meaning of the new vocabulary and we started reading for the second time, but this time we read the paragraphs together. As a final task I asked students to go through the reading to identify the different tenses the reading contains; for example: People are changing. = Present progressive.

By this time my class was over. At the end I felt disappointed because I did not receive what I was expecting, but I know I did a good job and what is what real matter. Hope next time will be better!!! Ciao…