Third Practice

Let me tell you about my last teaching practice of the first period.

The teacher told me that as she had already explained the grammar phase (future with will), she asked me to develop the controlled and semi-controlled practices, so I got ready for doing that.

I arrived to the classroom around 10 minutes before the class; I wrote the agenda, the date and the objective. When I started the class, I said to the students that it was my last class with them, and I encouraged them to participate; the first activity that I developed was tell me a secret ; I divided the class into two groups, ten and ten, and I said a sentence (in future with will) to the last student, and they had to whisper the sentence one by one until the student who had to write the sentence on the board; they had fun with this game, and most important thing was that they were practicing the structure that they had studied in the previous class.

 Then made a short review of the last class; I asked them to give me some examples, and they did it. Then I quickly showed them how to transform the positive sentences into negative and interrogative; when they were ready, I moved on to the controlled practice; I provided them a sheet of paper with some information where they had to write positive and negative sentences and interrogative also. After checking the exercises, I realized that they worked very well, so I moved on to the next activity which was the semi-controlled practice; in here I explained the students that I was going to give them some flashcards per pairs, and the they had to make predictions about the pictures; they had to write two sentences per each picture. When I realized that the majority of the pairs had done predictions about three flashcards, I asked them to give me back the flashcards, and later I showed them some flashcards, and the pairs, who had written sentences about it, had to say the sentences; as the previous activity, in this one they worked very well also.