No class this week people Sorry!!! See ya next period ok...

Third class and I´m almost done with this uncomfortable period… August 11th, 2011.

This time I had the chance of teaching my third class of the period, and I would like to say that this time I enjoyed my class even though the grade was not so good.

In the previous class I had some problems with the time because I got some minutes late to the classroom, but this time was different because I got fifteen minutes early and I could perform all the activities I had planned. I was assigned to review “the countable and uncountable nouns” and to teach the use of “So and Such”. At the beginning I had a hard time because I did not know what type of activities use, but suddenly I knew what to do.

My first activity was the warm-up, and it was focused in making a brief review of countable and uncountable nouns. I pasted some pieces of paper on the board, and I divided the students into two teams. They formed two lines, and the two students in front of the lines had to run to the board to pick up the piece of paper containing the word I just said; for example: I mentioned the word “Calculator”, so the two students were fighting to pick up first the piece of paper with the word calculator on it.

When students finished picking the papers up, I told them to sit down. I wrote on one side of the board “Countable nouns” and “Uncountable nouns” in the other one, so all students had to classify the nouns of the warm-up activity into these two categories. Fortunately, students did it very well because they had already studied this topic in the basic level. As they were classifying the names, I asked them to provide examples orally using the nouns they have already classified.

After that, I divided the class into two teams again, and I asked them to name a representative per each group. This was the time for them to practice adjectives. I put some pieces of paper into a can and the first representative had to pick one and mimic the adjective that was on the paper; for example: One students picked a paper with the adjective “preppy”, so she had to make mimics until one students guess the correct adjective.

As students were playing, I was writing all the adjectives on the board. When the students finished mimicking, I asked them to sit down and I started explaining the grammatical use of “So and Such”. For this I used some charts containing the grammatical structure. When I finished explaining the grammar part, I provide some examples. After that, I asked students to write sentences on their notebooks using the adjectives on the board from the previous activity.

When students were working on the sentences, I was monitoring them and clarifying their doubts about the topic. By that time my class was up, so the teacher continued after that.

This is all I remember, thanks for reading it. See you next time.