Class Description

Third class – Friday, September 25^th, 2015

As previous classes, I wrote the date, the objective and the agenda. In this class the teacher came late; however, I started the class without her developing the warm-up inside the classroom because the weather was rainy. After the warm-up, I showed students some power point presentations about beauty and appearance; then, the students discussed about the images, and share their opinions with the whole class. The next activity was a board game where students practiced about quantifiers; it took some time. After that, I developed a wrap- up, and it was a role play; students performed the situations that I gave them, and they did it better than my expectations because they lived their characters.

I think that to create a good rapport with the students is really important and useful because they enjoy the class, and have the enough confidence to ask; moreover, the teacher has to create activities where students feel identified in the context, that is an extra motivation for them, for  they perceive the information that teacher provides them is meaningful.

Based on what I already know about monitoring activities, I think that our duty as teachers is to supervise the work of the students, and at the same time we are sending a message that they are important for us because if we take care of them in the class, we will realize about students’ progress.

For future classes, I will use digital visual aids because it is cheaper than printed visual aids; in addition, I will use role-plays because it is a good way to know the progress of the students in the area of speaking.

Class Description

Second class – Friday, September 18^th, 2015

During the first minutes, students came to the classroom and seated in traditional way because the classroom did not allowed another way because it is too short. I developed a warm-up outside of the classroom in the basketball field; students made two rows and competed to each other, so they enjoyed that activity; after that, we came back to the classroom and started to work in the activities, for this class I developed only practices. I included controlled, semi-controlled and free activities; the first activity was an unscramble focus in the topic “third type conditional”, so they did very fast and perfectly; then, in the second activity, I gave them some cards  situations, and they solved those situations very fast, and as every activity, I checked the answers with the whole group. The third activity was a role-play, and they performed it with a lot of creativity as real actors. To conclude my class, I did a wrap-up about some famous inventors using the third type conditional obviously.

I think that students have to know about unreal situations in the past is really important because they also could analysesome choices that they did; moreover, they acquired some new words about money matters; it is useful for them, for they could learn some tips how to save money.

Based on what already know about learning process, I think that using visual aids in the classroom is very useful and important for the learning process; for this class I used many colorful pictures in order to explain something about money matters, and the students expressed their opinions about the pictures. They really enjoyed learning through seeing some material.

For future classes, I am going to continue using visual aids as poster, charts, and drawings because students learn better when they use their senses as sight, hearing, and touching. Moreover, I have to prepare activities related to my future student’s age; it is another very important point.

Second period class description

First class – Wednesday, September 9^th, 2015

This is my second practice in English Access, but my first time with advanced students in this modality. I had many expectations about this group of students, and I was right they were awesome because they loved English. I started my first class by writing the agenda, objective and date; then, I developed a warm-up where students had to go out of the classroom and look for some verbs around the building the winner was the person who got more verbs. I gave them a reading where students had to read, and underline this structure “will + have + v3”, then they answered three questions about the reading; I performed the grammar explanation about “future perfect” and wrote the structure and some examples on the board; in addition, I made the line time and explained to them when the future perfect occurred using the line time. As activities, I developed a fill in the blanks where students did it very fast, and I check the answers with the whole class; moreover, as a wrap-up, students wrote and expressed what will they have done before 2020?

I think that in the grammar explanation is very important to bring many examples about the new grammar structure that they are learning; moreover, as teachers, we have to be innovators; for example, I could realize that they really enjoy when I pasted the red cord as a line time on the board. I think that this strategy helped them to understand the topic faster          than only write or say something.

Based on what I already know about teaching, monitor every activity that we as teachers developed was really important in order to encourage them to ask any doubt that they could have. About the seating arrangement, students were seating in the traditional way because the classroom was too short, and they were 26 students.

For my future classes, I will try to develop only kinaesthetic warm-ups, for students enjoy working in this kind of activities: furthermore, I will use more colourful pictures and visual aids.