jueves, 8 de noviembre de 2012

last class with advanced I

Today, I had my last class with the Advanced English I. Beforehand, I have to say that there was a very big inconvenient because yesterday, the teacher told me that he was going to send me the lesson at night, but he did not as he had problems with the internet conection. He sent it this morning, but as I work in the morning I could see it and start getting ready, so I started to get prepare at one p.m. It was a very stressful time for me because I had to be reading in a hurry what I was going to teach.

Fortunately, I was going to start the lesson plan, so I took ideas from the book to develop. The warm-up activity was to have students discuss what they think are factors that attract people to other ones. It was a nice activity as I could see all students sharing their ideas. The next activity was to have students either agree or disagree with some statements about beauty. They did awesome and next they wrote true or false to each statement based on the article they had in their books.

Even thought I had the inconvenient I mentioned, The class went well and students enjoyed it. Thanks to this experience, I learned a lot!!!!!!!

jueves, 1 de noviembre de 2012

3rd class with Advanced I

Today, I taught my third class in the Advanced English I group. The warm-up activity was a kind of competition game. Students were supposed to work in group; each was going to be given a marker, and they were supposed to take turns to write words with the prefixes and suffixes I was going to say, but it did not work that way because when I started the class, there was just one student. I asked that student to write as many words as he could with the prefixes and suffixes I gave him. 
Fortunately, for the second activity another student got into the classroom, so I asked that student to join the other one and discuss some questions they have in their books. They were working on that when suddenly some other students got there, so I asked them to immediately start working in pairs and discuss the questions. 
The questions were regarding postcards. There were some articles about kind of postcards and what they reflect, so I asked students to read those articles and match the descriptions with the corresponding postcard, and they did it well. As a follow up activity, I asked them to share what kind of postcard they appeal the most and why. 
I gave a brief explanation on what prefixes and suffixes are and what they are used for. Students understood it very well because with the following exercise which was about writing adjectives with some prefixes and suffixes, they did it well.  They also  filled in a reading by using some adjectives, but before, they had to change the nouns into adjectives by adding either  a prefix or suffix, and they were to use those words to complete the reading I said before. 
In general terms, the class went well as the teacher told me in the feedback session. I made some mistakes regarding pronunciation but I think I will not committ them later. I hope so jeje.