jueves, 13 de septiembre de 2012

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. 

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