OMG! I cannot believe that we almost finish this hard teaching missions. I feel so happy because we are missing only two more classes and we´ll be free from all this.
I have to tell you that I have a very nice group this time. My new students are so kind and participative that I really liked my first teaching experience with them. However, that group is kind of large so I have to be very careful if I want to manage everything well.
I was so happy to know that I was going to introduce the grammar part instead of just working on the practice phase that I think that was one of the reasons why I felt so confident and which made me forgot about nervousness; and also because I already knew my tutor so I knew the way she works which was another advantage.
Today, I arrived 15 minutes before the class. Thanks God I had enough time to arrange everything before the class. My tutor arrived some minutes later which was perfect for me.
I began the class by introducing myself. Then, we continued with the warm-up. Well, let me tell you that Raul and me were assigned to teach the same topic, so we decided to work together on the preparation of activities and also materials. We did exactly the same warm-up, the same practice with the flashcards, and we even taught grammar in the same way using the sentences which they had to order on the different uses as we were explaining. I tell you this since it would be a waste of time for me to write what I did if you had already read Raul´s blog.
I can only tell you that it was a very nice class which I enjoyed a lot of. Since it was about the use of "can", I asked students to think about special abilities that they had. Some guys say they could move their nose or ears, and they showed it to the rest of the class. It was so funny because one guy said he could sing, and he sang a piece of "La Reina Del Sur" song. Another guy showed us how to dance reggaeton. Everybody was so excited by showing their abilities. I liked this part of the class since they were using the target structure without noticing it.
The feedback was nice. I had some pronunciation mistakes. But the rest was great, my tutor told me she liked the activities.
Ok! so, I´ll read Raul´s post!! :P
ReplyDeleteI was assigned to teach the same. Can and have to!!! But I guess I won´t have enough time to teach both topics and do practices!! :S
The activities worked nice. I think that classes go better when they are planned carefully with the students in mind. You are teaching in a very nice group; those students are cool and I would like to work with students like them in the future :-)
ReplyDeleteyes we are finally almost at the end but lets continue practice like always because even though we are almost at the end that does not mean that things are going to be easier. As I am always telling you nice job little green chicken. TQM my friend.
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