Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Teaching Practicum II / first practice




I arrived around 8:15 to the classroom in order to get ready for the class, but unfortunately when I arrived there were still a class over there, so I waited some minutes more. When the classroom was ready, I started writing the date, the objective and the agenda. The class was supposed to start at 8:30, but as few students were there, I waited five minutes for more students. Then, I started by greeting them and introducing myself; then, I gave the instructions for the warm-up which was called The cinepolis. In this warm-up I was going to start saying yesterday I went to the cinepolis and I watched a romantic movie, and the next student had to continue saying yesterday I went to the cinepolis and I watched a romantic movie and a horror movie. And the other student had to add one movie more and mention the previous ones; they liked doing this activity, and they were paying attention to every single movie that their classmates mentioned in order to not make a mistake when their turn took place.


As my classmate in his previous practice had started teaching the vocabulary about movies, I continued with a conversation regarding movies as well, and after made students repeat the conversation, I asked them to look for the meaning of some words in the conversation.


For the grammar phase, first, I wrote two questions with their answers on the board for students to familiarize with the topic; then I pasted some little charts in order to explain the use of for and since in the present perfect. I gave them some examples and explained each rule. Then, in order to know if they had understood the explanation I asked them the same two questions that I first wrote on the board and asked for specific students to give me the answers using for or since, and as I realized they were able to do it, I moved on to the controlled practice in which one the students had to choose the correct option to complete a paragraph. 



For the wrap-up, I had planned to develop a short discussion of 5 minutes, but as the time had gone, I told the teacher that I was not going to do it, and she told me that it was ok, so my practice lasted 46 minutes exactly. 

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