Yesterday, I had my third class with the English access course group, and it was the most wonderful experience I had ever had.
When planning my class, I did not know what to do because I just had to focus on the topic telling a story. I had a hardful time planning my class but the satisfaction I got at the end of the class was awesome.
The warm-up activity was about giving students a page where they had some pictures of very famous stories, so I asked do you know the name of the story for picture "a" for example, so students were trying to say the names of those stories in English. as second, I asked them to write the names of the stories under each picture. I helped them of course. In the same page, there were some descriptions about each story, so students were to write the tittle of the book next to each statement and they did well. I have them repeat the statements and then I asked which was the story, and they provided the name correcttly.
I gave an introduction by narrating the story about Cinderella, so base on this I develop the next activity which was to have students working in groups so they could help to order the stripes I gave them in a envelop. Those stripes had the story of Cinderella on them. One group formed the story first, so then I had them read the story.
My next activity and the most successful one was when I pasted the names of some stories around the classroom. I asked students to go to the story they knew. There I asked them to talk with the students who got in each story anything they knew about the story. At last, I elicit for information of the stories, I mean, I asked each group to narrate their story. This was great. I got surprised to see on how students did this activity. They narrated the story in a wonderful way.
I made some mistakes of course, but the fact on having students producing the language in the last activity was the most rewarding part for me. It was not just me who got surprised but also the teacher who was evaluating my class and a friend of mine who was recording it.
WOW!! What a really nice class my dear, what a nice warm-up. That is the best feeling ever, when you work so hard to get something and at the end you finally get the results you expected...Congrats Alex, keep working this way.
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