LAST CLASS

Before to start I´d like to say that I´m so glad that I finally finished my teaching practicum. It hasn´t been so easy, but I´ve learned a lot. 

For the very first time I wasn´t nervous before starting the class.

As a warm up, I had the students playing the "hot patato" game; the person who got the ball had to answer a question using "used to". After that, I had them working with a listening from the book which was also related to the topic "used to". For this class I was supposed to do only practice since the teacher had previously explained the grammar part.

After the listening, I had them working on a fill in the gaps exercise. Later, they worked on a short reading which talked about childhood memories, and taking as a model the paragraph I asked the students to write some sentences to talk about their childhood memories. As a follow up activity, I asked them to stand up and go around the classroom to share with their classmates what they had written. 

I tried to get students practicing the four macro skills of the target language, so I guess it was a good class. 

THIRD CLASS INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH I

Today I taught my third class with Intermediate English I. I must say that I feel really happy for this is almost the end of my teaching practicum. 
This time I felt things went so much easier, maybe because of the experience I have acquired throughout this course or probably the topic was kind of easy. I had  to teach the present perfect: simple and progressive. 
I began the class with a warm up related to vocabulary. After that I gave the grammar explanation. Later, I had them doing a fill in the blanks exercise which was a dialogue. When they had finished, I checked that everybody had answer properly, and I ask some of them to perform the dialogue in front of the class. 
After that, I had them developing an activity "find someone who". Because of time I had to stop them; they were enjoying and speaking a lot. Unfortunately, I didn´t have enough time to develop some exercises I had planned, but in general, I think it was a good class. 

SECOND CLASS INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH I

My second practice with this group was satisfactory. This time I felt more comfortable with this group, so I gave my best to teach them. 
The video of my class was being recorded during this practice, but I didn´t feel uncomfortable or nervous as I thought I would be. 
This time I was supposed to have the students practicing the future tense (be goin to, will and present continuous), but speaking and free practice mainly, so I began the class with a warm up using some scrambled sentences written in the tense I mentioned before.
I continued with a listening and then I had them doing a fill in the gaps exercises mixing up the three structures. 
After that, I asked them create groups and I had them discussing and making predictions about certain statement regarding their future. They were standing up and moving around while doing this activity.As I follow up activity, I asked some voluteers to share with the rest of the class what they were discussing in their groups.
Later, I continued  with a "chain story" activity for which I provide some cards containing some words and verbs related to the future, and  they had to use them to invent their story about making predictions regarding a person´s future or their own. During this activity they were working in trios. While I was monitoring I could listen to them speaking a lot using the structures to invent the story. Unfortunately, due to time issues, I wasn´t able to ask and hear all the groups sharing their stories with the class; I just had the chance to listen to a couple of them what they had invented. I think they enjoyed this activity and they had fun while working on it because some of them were inventing funny stories.

First teaching practicum with Intermediate English I

My first class with this group went pretty well even though I was kind of nervous because it is a new group for me and I don´t know them so well. 
I began the class some minutes later because just few students had arrived to the classroom. 
As a warm up I used a bingo which was about stative verbs ( stative and dynamic verbs was the topic I was to teach) all the students enjoyed the game and at the same time it helped me to introduce the new topic. After that, to formally introduce the topic I used a short paragraph which they had to read and underline the mistakes; the mistakes were some stative verbs written in the progressive form, and I got surprised because they immdiately identified them. As a follow up activity, we corrected the mistakes. Later, I gave the grammar explanation; luckly, this time doing this part wasn´t that difficult. Then, I had them doing a written practice which they developed properly. Furthermore, I had them doing a miming activity; in order to do this activity I ask some students to mimic and make gestures regarding a verb, and the rest of the students had to raise their hand and tell me if it was dynamic or stative and a sentence using such verb. If they did it accurately, I was supposed to give them a point. During this activity I could verify that the students actually grasped the new topic because they participated properly saying if the verb was stative or dynamic and using it in a correct sentence as well.  
As a wrap up, I had the students working on a exercise from the book. 
As I said before this class went allright, and I hope the coming classes turn out great as well. 

LAST CLASS WITH ADVANCED ENGLISH I

First of all, I would like to say that I´m glad because I finally finished with this period.
My last experience with this class was quite satisfactory because I was able to develop all the activities I had planned. 
I began the class with a warm up using scrambled sentences. The sentences were related to the passive voice structure. 
I was supposed to teach passive voice in the simple and progressive tense so then, I continued with the grammar explanation. I wrote some sentences on the board and explained the use of the structure; I also gave them a piece of paper containing a more detailed explanation and more examples as well.
After that, I had them doing a written practice in which they had to transform some sentences from active to passive. I helped them because they were 
The follow up activity was a fill in the blanks; it was a recipe and they had to complete it using the passive form of the verbs that were given into brackets. Later, I asked them to work in groups and take as a model the recipe from the previous exercise to write a recipe from their own of a dish they already know or it could have been made up. I provided paper and markers so that they could do it in a chart; at the end, I asked them to present their recipe. I could notice that they enjoyed this activity. 
It was a very nice class and I´m pleased with the work I have done so far. 

THIRD CLASS ADVANCED ENGLISH I

My third practice with this group went alright. Again, I tried to be prepared as much as I could, so I was more relaxed and comfortable before beginning the class. Another teacher, whom I didn´t know at all, was going to be checking my work, which got me a little bit nervous, but then I forgot about it.
My tutor teacher asked me to prepare activities related to the previous topic I taught in the previous class, so it wasn´t that hard. 
As warm up, I used the commonly known activity "Find Some Who...". In this activity students had the chance to practice the Present Perfect Tense, simple and progressive, in the oral form. I think they enjoyed it because they were speaking a lot and using the target structure a lot. 
After that, I had them doing a fill in the gaps exercise; it was also related to the Present Perfect. 
I also had prepared a reading comprehension which was about being a vegetarianism. I asked them to work in groups where they were going to read and then to disscuss some questions. After that I was going to ask them to prepare some presentations about the topic they were reading, but unfortunately time wasn´t enough; they took more time than what I had estimated to work on the reading.
During the feedback session, the teacher told me some techniques to handle such a large class because I´m still having trouble in managing them. There are too many students and it is kind of hard to have them all quiet. 

SECOND CLASS ADVANCED I

My second class with this group went pretty well. First of all, I would like to say that in this second practice I learned that attitude defines if things will go wrong or right; I got prepared for this class with plenty of time in advanced and I got in my mind that everything would go right, and so it was. 
I was supposed to teach present perfect: simple and progressive, so I began the class with a warm up called "truths and lies". The students have to write 4 sentences using the present perfect tense (some of the sentences could be lies and others could be truths) then, they had to stand up and read their sentences to their classmates and they were supposed to guess wich ones were false and which ones were true. I noticed that they enjoyed this game as well as they practiced the present perfect tense a lot.

After that, I gave the grammar explanation. I must say that I feel proud of the way I did it since I didn´t use charts; I had studied that topic a lot, so I was able to explain it in my own words, and I could see that everybody understood because they did the following activities without almost any trouble. I was able to clarify doubts exactly when they needed it. Honestly, it feels nice to be called "teacher" and gain the student´s trust by teaching them the correct way of using a certain grammar structure either in the written or speaking form.

To finish the class, I had them doing an speaking activity. I pasted 5 statements on the wall. The statements were written using the present perfect, for instance, I wrote: "how long have you been learning English and how has it been your experience?". I formed groups and I ask each group to go to one question and discuss it. After some minutes I asked them to switch, so each group was able to discuss the 5 statements. Then, I had some students to report what they were commenting in their groups. 
I could notice that they enjoyed my class a lot and I had a great time as well even though this group is kind of difficult to handle because there are too many students.