Saturday, March 23, 2013

Hello!!

My second class in the basic group was on Thursday. The topic was not that difficult, it was about adverbs of frequency and I used Gustavo´s and George´s lesson plan.
As it was my second class, I felt more familiar with the ss since they are very friendly. Something that I realized is that they work better when the class is very active and motivated, so if in the last period you teach teacher Karina´s group you have to prepare many kinesthetic activities in order to have a nice class!

Well, first, as a warm up activity, I asked the students to stand up and make two groups in a row in front of the whiteboard. Then the first student had to write horizontally the first word that come to his/her mind; then, the second ss had to write vertically another word starting with the last letter of the previous word and so on. After that, for the presentation stage, I worked in the book; I used the handouts I mean the lesson plan for the grammar phase and the appendices for their practices. 

Again I really enjoyed the class. At the end as a wrap up activity I asked them to stand up and make a circle; then, I played some music and asked them to pass a funny diadem on their heads and when I stopped the music, the ss who got the diadem has to roll the dice which contained some adverbs of frequency so that the ss had to make a sentence putting in practice what they just had studied.

Indeed, I feel comfortable with the group, I like to work with them, and I learn in every class, I like the teacher´s suggestions and feedbacks too. Well, basically that´s all!! J


Thursday, March 14, 2013


Hello guys!!

Today was my first class in Basic level with teacher Karina Carranza. First I felt a little nervous, I think it is normal because is a new group. But while I was teaching I felt comfortable.

I started the class by introducing myself, and then I perform the warm up activity, as they are studying the time and some “time expressions “  the warm up (Clock Buddies) was related to it, it was nice, They liked it!!

The group is very active, most of them like to participate and they enjoy doing kinesthetic activities, so now I know that I have to prepare more activities like those.
Something that was a little difficult for me was to manage the time, they had a lot of practice but at the end I felt that I needed more time to perform another activity.

Summing up, I like this group and I enjoyed the class!!
Blessings!! :)