Third Practice

Tuesday February 21st, 2017.

I started the class at 6:49 because in the classroom weren´t all the students, so the teacher told me to wait for more students, and after some minutes I started the class, so I greeted them; Then, I gave them the directions for the warm-up which was called “Causative Verb”. After I made them do a circle with their desks, I named them by  a causative verb, and when they hear their verb the had to change desk, and when I said causative verbs, everybody had to change desk. This was a nice warm-up, and I could notice that they really enjoyed it; and something important that happened is that since the mentor told me in the previous classes that I had to be clearer when giving directions, so I tried my best doing it, and I could notice that this time, students got my point easily. 

After that, as the teacher told me not to each grammar, I just explained them how to transform the sentences in causative verbs into negative form which was so easy; that´s why, I did not take too much time doing it, but I provided them some examples, and as soon as I noticed they had understood, I moved on to the practice phase which took around 20 minutes because there were two different exercises; in the first one, they had to transform the sentences into negative form, and in the second one, they had to choose the best option of causative verbs.

When I checked the exercises, I did it in an open class, so the students who made mistakes in the exercises could rechecked them; I realized that they made some mistakes, but most of them had done a good job.

As my objective was to develop a Role-play by the end of the class using causative verbs, I made them work in pairs, and I gave them the directions for doing the Role-play. After some minutes, I made a raffle for the students who had to perform the Role-play, and because of the time, just two pairs could do it, and by the way, the Role-plays were so funny, and the students were able to use causative verbs. At the end, I tried to correct some mistakes that they did it during the Role-play; also, I thanked them for the participation during the three classes. 

Second Teaching Practice

Wednesday, February 15 th, 2017.

I came to the classroom at 6: 30 , and just two students were there, so I started writing the date, objectives and the agenda. Then, the others students arrived, and I started the class at 6:45 by the developing the warm-up.

 When I was developing the warm-up, two students arrived, and they were isolated, so I asked them to work in each  one of the group. Then, I gave them a sheet of paper where they had to read a short conversation in order to introduce the topic, which was Causative verbs.

Actually, when the teacher told me that I was going to teach causative verbs, I was scared because this was one of the most difficult topic to understand when I was in Intermediate II, but I didn´t say anything to the teacher because I knew that I had to teach it. I got ready to teach this topic; I created two posters, and I explained to the students. I tried to be short in the explanation because I thought that if I talk too much, I am going to lose them, so I provided some examples to the students, as well, I asked them to provide me some examples, but they were not able to do it, so I explained again.

In the practice stage, I provided them another example in order that they understand better, so when I checked the exercises, I did it in an open class, and I could realize that most of the students were able to do the exercises perfectly. In the other practice, while I was monitoring, I could see that some students were writing some verbs in past ( and the verbs had to be written in present), so when I checked the exercises, I asked them which was the correct form of the verbs, and some of them answered correctly, so the students who wrote the verbs in a wrong way changed it. 

By the end of the class, I asked students to create sentences using the structure studied, and when I was monitoring, I could see four students who did them perfectly, so when I asked students to share the sentences, I just asked the four ones to do it because the others students had not finished yet, and the time was over. 

First teaching practicum

Wednesday, February 8th, 2017.

Today, I developed my first teaching practicum in Intermediate II; At the beginning, as it is normal, I was nervous; that´s why, I had problems to pronounce the word " participle", and I repeated more than twice. Then I developed the warm-up , and I think students liked the activity because they had fun. Then, I taught them vocabulary, and I developed a listening in order to use that vocabulary; I liked that students did well in this listening because when I checked the answers, they answered me perfect. Then, I continued  with a short conversation that I had prepared in order to present the topic; I made students to practice the conversation, and when I asked for volunteers, they participated. Later, I explained the topic which was "will be able to".  I consider that students understood me even though I explained so quickly, and the mentor suggested me (in the feedback) to explain slowly. I think I did quickly because I was checking the time, and I though I wasn´t able to cover all the activities, and I actually I didn´t because I planned many activities that at the end, I didn´t have time for the wrap-up, so I can say that for the next class I shouldn´t plan many activities. The last two activitities that I developed in the class were the following:
-Fill in the blanks which was very easy for the students because I just had to correct one sentence.
- Dialogue. I asked students to create a short dialogue using the structure studied. They did it perfect.
From this practice I learnt that every time that I check the work of the students I have to recheck it, also when monitoring students, I have to encourage them to work because in this class some students were not working, and I realized it, but I did not encourage them. And something that I have to keep is my level of enthusiasm; this was what the mentor suggested me.