GAME OVER...

  Hello everyone...


I feel so satisfied because I have finished my first teaching period and everything went ok. At the beginning, I thought teaching to students from the major was going to be very difficult and also so stressful, but it was totally different. I really enjoyed that first experience. My students were very nice, they participated all the time, so it was easy to develop the lesson. My tutor, she was a very kind person. I really like the way she gave me feedback because she made me see my mistakes in a positive way and I even laughed about them. I really didn't like this first period to get over. I would had liked to continue with the same group, but any way I have to continue learning so I need other experiences with different people.

My last class, it was a very nice experience. I was expected to teach about shopping habits, so I began with a pictionary game to introduce clothing vocabulary which I was going to use later as the class went on. Then, I used some clothing flashcards to review vocabulary and to introduce more. We categorized clothe into formal or casual, and we also talk about the differences between men's and women's clothe. After that, I continued with some questions about shopping habits. For example, Which are the places they like to visit when they go shopping? What things do they like to buy?, etc. I carried some collages about things we can find in the supermarket. I gave the collages to the students for them to tell which of those things they like to buy. They started to practicing food vocabulary without noticing it. Shopping is a topic which almost everybody likes, so they got interested very fast. While we were talking about shopping habits, I asked them which the most important thing we ask  when we go shopping is, and inmediatelly they said "the price" so that was my opportunity to introduce 'How much is...? and How much are...? which was part of my teaching assignation for that class. I briefly explain about the use of the two questions because they got it very fast. I continued practicing by using the flashcards. They had to tell me the questions depending on the flashcard (singular and plural clothing items) Then, I explain how to give the prices.
Finally, I used a very nice activity to check students understanding of the class (dress the model). I carried real clothing items to the classroom, and I asked students to make two teams. They chose a representative which was going to be the model (a girl for one team and a boy for the other one). My tutor and I were the clercks of two stores (one per each team) I gave some pieces of paper whith the name of the clothing items they needed to buy. Students had to take turns going to the stores to buy the clothe, but they needed to use the questions to ask for prices in the correct form because if they did not say it correctly my tutor and I did not give the clothe to the person. They had to do it faster than the other team because the first person who had their model dressed was going to be the winner. They got very excited with that game that they even asked me to do it again, but time was over so it was impossible. I felt very happy because they enjoyed a lot my last class. I hope  my next teaching period goes as good as this one went.