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.
Nice class Maritza. It is kind of difficult working with technical English, but you were creative and used a song; in that way the students can get interested in what they are studying. Also, I liked that you respected their mood because we cannot force our students to participate in an activity if they do not want. Very good.
ResponderEliminarWow, you used a nice variety of activities; I'm sure they liked your class. Sometimes it is necessary to prepare a lot of things (videos, songs, music, etc.) to keep our students engaged, but at the end, that has been worthy if our students have learned.
ResponderEliminarI don´t know about that warm up but for sure it was nice since you respected the students´ mood and adapted very well the activities to their feelings. The song is an excellent activity to wake up the students and of course if the teacher doesn´t give the example of singing they won´t doing that is why we as teachers have to feel and think as students before bringing the activities to the class.
ResponderEliminarNice class Maritza!
Maritza,
ResponderEliminarWell, I think you did a good job with technical English. I liked all the activities you mention in your entry this week.
One more period to go!