Great!!!

Today, I taught my second class. It is curious that when you feel everything is going to be ok, nothing goes well; but when you think your day will be a disaster, then it becomes a great day in which everything goes perfect (or almost perfect). I say this because today I felt kind of sick, and I really did not want to teach. In addition, I had to work with the controlled practice, and I felt kind of disappointed because I prefer to teach the grammar part since I can choose the way to introduce it and explain it. I feel limited when I just give instructions for the students to work on activities that I have not chosen. Therefore, I always try to adapt or modify the activities to make them more interesting, so I can stimulate students’ motivation. Thanks God, everything went very good on the development of my class, and my grade also improved…

 I arrived early before my class. Unfortunately, there is a class before mine, so I have to wait until they finish, and I cannot have the environment ready before students arrive.

I began with a common warm up (the whisper game). Students had to work in two teams for this activity. The funny part was that they were only five, so I asked my tutor if she wanted to participate, and she kindly accepted. Students and even the teacher enjoyed the activity; they had two make two lines. The last person on the line had to whisper a sentence I was showing to the next person and so on until the first one on the line who had to write the sentence on the board. The first team to finish writing the sentence without any mistake got a point. I was planning to use those sentences to introduce an activity which was part of the practice; however, when I notice a student had erased everything on the boardL. Then, I had to read the sentences for them to identify their tenses and also the negative form of them. After some oral practice, I dictated the sentences for them to work on their notebooks. While they were working, I pasted some daily activity flashcards on the board, so I could have everything ready for the next activity. Then I monitored students’ work, and I corrected some mistakes. Finally, they took turns reading the answers of the exercise.

After that activity, we continued reviewing the present continuous tense. I used the flashcards and I also pasted a name tag to each of them, so students could write sentences using a proper name rather than a subject pronoun. First, we practice a little bit in the oral way. Then, each student went to the front and chose a flashcard which s/he used to write a sentence on the present continuous tense. They did it very well.

Finally, I gave some photocopied material for students to continue practicing. Unfortunately, time was over, so the teacher continued with it.

I had less pronunciation mistakes than the last class, so my grade improved.

I really liked this day because I did a good job which was reflected on my grade.