lunes, 13 de agosto de 2012

THIRD PRACTICE WITH INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH I

Unfortunately, my third practice with this group didn´t go so well. This time I was supposed to review countable and uncountable nouns and teach the use of "so and such as". I began the class with a warm up in which the students were divided into two groups; one group had to write as many countable nouns as they could, and the other group had to write uncountable nouns. At the end, the group with more nouns was the winner. After that, I gave the grammar explanation. The problem was with exercise I asked them to do; the exercise was in the lesson plan the tutor teacher gave me, but I guess it was too hard for them because almost any of them was able to do it. When I got closer to monitor their work, I could notice that everybody had written anything, so I had to tell each of them how to solve it. It took me a lot of time, and at the end, it was the only one activity I did, so it affected my grade, but I felt that it wouldn´t be right to continue with the class if they hadn´t understood well. At least at the end they had clearer the use of countable and uncountable nouns although I couldn´t move on with the other topic and other activities I had prepared. It made me feel kind of frustrated.