YUPIIII!!!! TEACHING PRACTICE DONE!!!

HI THERE!  I FINISHED MY TEACHING PRACTICE AND I FEEL SO RELIEFE AND MOTIVATED. FOR MY LAST CLASS I HAD A CHALLENGE WHICH WAS TO MAKE STUDENTS UNDERSTAND THE USE OF CAUSATIVE VERBS. MY TUTOR TOLD ME I HAD TO TEACH THAT TOPIC IN A WAY STUDENTS WOULD UNDERSTAND WHEN AND WHY WE USE CAUSATIVE VERBS. I STARTED THE CLASS, BUT I FELT ASHAMED BECAUSE I WANTED TO MAKE TWO GROUPS AND CHOOSE A REPRESENTATIVE OF EACH GROUP. SO NOBODY FROM ONE OF THE GROUPS WANTED TO PARTICIPATE, SO AFTER A WHILE, I JUST ASKED ONE OF EACH GROUP TO GO TO THE FRONT AND ORDER THE LETTERS ON THE BOARD TO WRITE A CORRECT WORD. THESE WORDS WERE ABOUT VOCABULARY THEY LEARNED THE PREVIOUS CLASS. I THINK THIS WARM UP ACTIVITY DID NOT WORK AS I THOUGHT. AFTER, I PRESENTED THE TOPIC WHICH WAS CAUSATIVE VERBS. I TRIED TO MAKE IT EASIER BY WRITING THE VERB, STRUCTURE AND A KEY WORD. I EXPLAINED AND GAVE EXAMPLES OF EACH VERB, AND I ASKED FOR QUESTIONS FOR THEM TO MAKE IT CLEAR. SOME OF THEM HAD DOUGHTS, BUT AT THE END I THINK I ACCOMPLISHED MY CHALLENGE. MOST OF THEM HAD A POSTIVE FACE THAT MENT THAT THEY GOT EVERYTHING. I FELT SATISFICED. THERE WAS A SPECIFIC MOMENT I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU. THERE WERE TWO GIRLS TALKING AND I ASKED THEM IF THEY HAD QUESTIONS, AND ONE OF THEM TOLD ME,  " WE WERE JUST SAYING THAT WE WILL BE IN YOUR SHOES WITHING 3 YEARS", I AGREED THAT AND THE OTHER GIRL TOLD ME, "AND WE WILL THINK THE SAME AS '"YOU ARE THINKING RIGHT NOW" I ASKED HER TO TELL ME WHAT I WAS THINKING, AND SHE DID NOT WANT TO TELL ME, SO I ASKED HER IF SHE WANTED ME TO TELL HER WHAT I WAS THINKING, BUT SHE DID NOT WANT TO. HOWEVER, I TOLD THEM THAT I WAS THINKING ABOUT WEATHER I WAS ACHIEVING MY GOAL THAT MY TUTOR REQUESTED ME OR NOT. AT THE END THEY LAUGHT AND IT WAS FUN. THERE WERE SOME GIRLS THAT I COULD NOTICE I DIDN'T LIKE THEM, BUT I DO NOT TAKE IT PERSONAL. I RESPECT AND TREAT THEM ALL THE SAME. I JUST WANT THEM TO LEARN FROM ME AND TO RESPECT THE CLASS AND ME. I THANKED FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION AND ATTENTION TO ALL OF THEM AND THEY CLAPPED ME.

THE END OF THE TEACHING PRACTICE!!!!!!

2nd teaching practice

Almost done!!! Hi peers, today I had my practice. I video taped it today. I felt worried because it was time to start the class, and the people were not in the classroom. I started with 5 students only and that worried me because that affected the activities of my lesson plan. I starte with a warm up activity about riddles. I made two groups and I told a riddle to each and the one who answered got one point. They liked the riddles, but there was only one student who answered two riddles and the rest were thinking but couldn't guess. Then, I introduced the topic which was indefinite and definite articles. I gave them pieces of paper with grammar rules to some of them. They had to go to past the correct rule in the correct article on the board. We review the grammar rules and then I explained them. After, I gave some cards with some pictures and nouns to some of them in order to go to the board and write a sentences in the correct article according to the noun. I liked the way they developed in this activity. Then, they worked in an exercise from the book, I was checking their work and I facilitate them some clues for them to answer the exercise. I felt fine with them working in that because they were working in pairs. Thought the class seems to be separated , they are a good group. I wanted to get them close, but they didn't like it, so I didn't force them to do so. The time flies when you explain grammar, so I couldn't finish everything I prepared. I asked them for questions or doughts they had , and one student ask for some explanation and I answer him with grammar rules I got and everything was clear. They seemed satisfacied with the explanation. I told them to write me to my mail writing about one of their favorite adventures they had. This is because it was requested by my tutor. So I have to follow the orders jejejeje. if not , there will be a bad grade jejee. Well, see ya in my last class people!!!!

First class with Advanced

eople, here I am telling you again about my teaching practice. I think it was not bad, but I felt kind of worried because my tutor gave me a lot of directions to follow and I thought it was going to be difficult. However, I planned my lesson and got the materials ready. I wanted to give a interactive class and I sarted with the warm up activity. It was Tic Tac Toe. I draw the lines on the board and cut some X and 0. The students picked a piece of paper to form groups, one was pink and the other group was orange, so one got the X and the other one the 0. They got surprised when I told them we were going to play Tic Tac Toe, and when they saw the X and 0 made of black paper. I made a vocabulary review of the previous class to play it. It was fun, but any group won. After, I gave some of them words in order to make a sentece using connectors, they stood up and  I made a basic review of what a sentece contains and needs when having connectors. The ones who had the words passed to the front in order to make the sentence logic, and they did it good. Then we talked about connectors and I presented a flip chart borrowed by my tutor and I started explaining grammar about linker or connectors. We discussed and gave examples about all the kinds of connectors in the flip chart, they had fun and learned when giving examples. Later on, I asked to make an excersise from the book about writing the correct connector. I saw that time was flying and we checked the paragraph with the answers as a group. Then, my tutor asked me to give them homework and I prepared some copies for them to practice connectors. As a wrap up, I asked some questions about all the things studied in the class , and it seemed that they were on the road. I felt good with the class and I hope I can say the same about my grade jejej. bye bye see ya palls.

My last class with technical english!!!!

Hi everybody, I had my last class with technical english. I arrived very early to prepare everything I was going to use. First, I started with the warm up activity which was the same as Ingrid did in her presentation with teacher Cristian. I asked to stand up, but all of them were like tired and didn't want to stand up. So, I saw this and I understood them and I told them to stayed in their desks. After giving directions, we started with the gestures and they laughed. I think they feel more comfortable with the class after this warm up. After this, I gave a peace of paper to some of them which contained words to form the structure of the simple present questions. I tried to give a detailed , easy and understandable explanation about that. I asked them to go to the board and paste the papers one by one. After that, I wrote some example following the structure. Some of them could help me perfectly, but other seemed that they find it difficult. Later, I gave them a photocopy of a song, and I played the video in my computer. It was a song called "do I have to cry for you". It was a song which had the same structure we were studying; however, I had an observation about the song because I had given them some blanks in the lyric for them to fill the blanks. I didn't use the lyric in the correct way because the teacher told me that I should have delete the words like do, what, according to the words we were studying, and I deleted just easy words. I played the son for them to check the lyric.
I told the students to sing if they wanted to, but I realized that if he teacher doesn't sing, they won't sing either, so I played the son again and encourage them to sing again, and this time I sang too. They sang with me and I could notice they felt comfortable singing when I sang.
Afterwards, I pasted some pictures on the board and I wrote the verbs according to the action. I asked them to write questions using simple present questions. I was checking their work, and most of them were following the structure. Later, when they finished we checked and I wanted to make sure if they understood, so I erased everything on the board and asked one to write the structure of the questions, and another student to write examples. They did it perfect and I felt satisfied. I say goodbye and thank for their participation. They clapped at the end.

Third class

Hi there, I had to teache my 3rd class with technical english, and I think this time was better since I brough active activities.
At the begining I had to wait for more students becuse it was time to start and there were some girls missing. I started with the warm up activity. I asked them to make two roads, the last students of each line saw a sentence I showed them; then, they had to whisper to their classmates the sentences I showed them. The first student had to write the sentence on the board. The girls were having fun and did a good job, and the winners got a candy. After that, I asked them to make pairs and work on an excersise from the book, it was a writing activity. Then, I gave them a photocopy about a daily routine because the topic was simple present and family members. I asked them to make groups of three, they had to practice their speaking by telling the routine of the person in the photocopy using the pictures in it. Some of them were kind of lost because they couldn't tell the story of the daily routine, but there was a group that told it perfectly. I think they liked it, but for some of them was too difficult. After that, they answered an excersise from the book about filling the blanks about writing the verbs in the correct form. We all did it together and repeated the practice, some of them had the excersise already done because the book was borrowed. At the end, I asked them some questions about relatives and they liked them because they were treaky. For example, who is the mother of my mother? I asked them one by one and they were thinking hard and when they couldn't answer I gave the answer and laughed. I think they liked they class because when I said goodbye and erased the board  they clapped, which was something they didn't do the previous classes.

Second entry / Technical english

Hi everyone, Today I had to teach my second practice. I arrived early as always, and when I got in the classroom with the teacher I kind of tired and wanted to sleep. I don't know if that was trasmitted to the students, but I felt them different than the first time. I started the class with warm up activity. Since they were students the time, I gave each a paper in a shape of a circle. I asked them to draw a clock and set any time. They spent more time than I thought because some of them were working on the homework for that day, others were very tired , very sick, so I tried to hide my fatigue, but I don't know if I could. After they finished the clock, I gave them a piece of making tape and asked the to paste it on their chest, and go around the classroom asking, "what time is it?." They had a practice on the time and I  think that worked well. Later, I told them to past their clocks on the board and we repeated the time all together. Afterwards, I played the cd for them to listen to a conversation. I told them to listen, asked them for new words, ask some questions about the dialogue, repeat, and perfomed. I told them to pass to the from with the book and give their own names and another country. They had fun giving other countries because in the dialogue was requiring.
Besides the time, I had to give a review of present continuous wh-questions. I wrote some questions on the board and they helped me to write them, so I could realized that they already had familiarized with the topic. I asked them for some verbs to write the " ing" form. Some of them seemed to understand everything, but the other half didn't participate unless I asked them to. I gave them a picture and I told them to write a questions and the answer using present perfect. Then they had to ask one of their friends the question and their classmates had to say the answer. for example: what is he doing? He is crying. I think this activity worked well spite the feelings most of them had today. In general, I didn't like too much this class because I felt it was passive class, but there could be many things that affected the class like the fatigue, sickness, but I will try to be more active next time.