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.
I see that your class is very dynamic. Students need TPR activities and if you engage them in learning, all of this activities are more meaningful for them. The class was really ful of chances of learning.
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